Lords of the Fallen review: Laptop and desktop benchmarks
Test laptops
We currently run our gaming benchmarks with these laptops. Clicking on the photos will take you to the respective manufacturer's website. All other test systems (tower PCs, mini PCs, ...) are listed at the end of the article.
Tech
Similar to Lies of P, Lords of the Fallen is also based on Unreal Engine. Even from medium detail levels onwards, the action role-playing game magics great (but not outstanding) visuals onto your screen, whether it be through textures, effects or levels of detail. As well-known from Souls-like games, this release features quite a dense and rather gloomy atmosphere, too. Stylistically, the developers have also taken a leaf out of FromSoftware's book - although Lords of the Fallen clearly features its own accents, such as its switchable parallel or second world.
Its movement and combat system also needn't hide behind the competition, even though some keys are assigned a little unfortunately if you are playing the game using a mouse and keyboard. With regard to its menu, we actually like Lords of The Fallen's one more at times than, for example, Elden Ring's.
From a technical standpoint, the game benefits from quite a few modern features. Aside from AMD's FSR, Nvidia's DLSS is also supported, however, the developers have taken Frame Generation out of the game for the time being due to (crashing) issues. Apart from that, the display menu contains controls for resolution/resolution scaling, picture mode, V-Sync, FPS limit (with an unlimited option) and display calibration. Should you wish to do so, you can additionally activate V-Sync and HDR.
The graphics menu isn't bad, either. Here, you can find four presets that have an effect on about 10 detail settings. Thankfully, changes are put into place without having to restart the game. Aside from the time it takes for the game to boot up, its loading times are okay. We "only" suffered two crashes during the course of our test, which is still acceptable. Its size of around 32 GB is actually very moderate for a game released in 2023.
Benchmarks
We used the area after the first boss flight for our speed measurements. We recorded a set route for about 30 seconds using the tool CapFrameX. With an average frame rate of 40 FPS, we would definitely class Lords of the Fallen as playable.
Results
FHD (1,920 x 1,080)
As mentioned at the start, this game is very demanding when it comes to the graphics card. You can completely forget trying to play the game using iGPUs. Even the Radeon 680M fails at 1,280 x 720 pixels and minimum details. For Full HD, you will need at least a mid-range component. High details are provided much better by a Radeon RX 6800S onwards (even better GeForce RTX 4050) and maximum details can be achieved by a GeForce RTX 4060 or RTX 3070 Ti onwards (even better RTX 4070 or RTX 3080 Ti).
Lords of the Fallen | |
1920x1080 Low Preset 1920x1080 Medium Preset 1920x1080 High Preset 1920x1080 Ultra Preset | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, i9-13900K | |
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, i9-13900K | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU, i9-12900H | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU, i7-12700H | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800S, R9 6900HS | |
AMD Radeon 780M, R9 7940HS | |
AMD Radeon 680M, R9 6900HS |
QHD (2,560 x 1,440)
You will need a current high-end model in order to play the game on a QHD display using the ultra preset. Only a GeForce RTX 4080 (Mobile) or better manages over 40 FPS.
Lords of the Fallen | |
2560x1440 Ultra Preset | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, i9-13900K | |
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, i9-13900K | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU, i9-12900H | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU, i7-12700H | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
AMD Radeon 780M, R9 7940HS |
UHD (3,840 x 2,160)
All available laptop chips currently have a hard time running the game with a mixture of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels and maximum detail settings. Even the GeForce RTX 4090 can't even come close to achieving playable frame rates. When it comes to desktop systems, an RTX 4080 or better would do a decent job. Its laptop counterpart at least produces solid results when DLSS is enabled (our benchmarks were run using the quality setting). In general, we can say that DLSS makes a very good impression in Lords of the Fallen when it comes to performance gains.
Lords of the Fallen | |
3840x2160 Ultra Preset 3840x2160 Ultra Preset + DLSS Quality | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, i9-13900K | |
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, i9-13900K | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU, i9-12900H | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU, i7-12700H | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU, i9-13900HX | |
AMD Radeon 780M, R9 7940HS |
Please note
Since gaming tests are very time-consuming and often restricted by installation or activation limits, we can only provide you with a part of the benchmarks upon publication of the articles. Further graphics cards will be added later.
Overview
All test systems
Laptop | Graphics card | Processor | RAM |
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XMG Neo 17 E23 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 @175 W TGP (16 GB GDDR6X) | Intel Core i9-13900HX | 2 x 16 GB DDR5 |
Schenker Key 17 Pro E23 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 @175 W TGP (12 GB GDDR6X) | Intel Core i9-13900HX | 2 x 16 GB DDR5 |
XMG Pro 15 E23 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 @140 W TGP (8 GB GDDR6) | Intel Core i9-13900HX | 2 x 16 GB DDR5 |
XMG Pro 15 E23 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 @140 W TGP (8 GB GDDR6) | Intel Core i9-13900HX | 2 x 16 GB DDR5 |
XMG Focus 15 E23 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 @140 W TGP (6 GB GDDR6) | Intel Core i9-13900HX | 2 x 16 GB DDR5 |
Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti @150 W TGP (16 GB GDDR6) | Intel Core i9-12900H | 2 x 16 GB DDR5 |
Acer Predator Helios 300 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti @150 W TGP (8 GB GDDR6) | Intel Core i7-12700H | 2 x 8 GB DDR5 |
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 | AMD Radeon RX 6800S (8 GB GDDR6) & AMD Radeon 680M | AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS | 2 x 16 GB DDR5 |
Mini PC | Graphics card | Processor | RAM |
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Minisforum NUCXi7 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 @125 W TGP (8 GB GDDR6) | Intel Core i7-11800H | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 |
Minisforum HX99G | AMD Radeon RX 6600M @100 W TGP (8 GB GDDR6) | AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX | 2 x 16 GB DDR5 |
Minisforum Neptune Series HN2673 | Intel Arc A730M | Intel Core i7-12650H | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 |
Minisforum UM790 Pro | AMD Radeon 780M | AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS | 2 x 32 GB DDR5 |
4K monitors | Operating system | Nvidia driver | AMD driver |
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Gigabyte M32U | Windows 11 | ForceWare 537.58 | Adrenalin 23.10.1 |