Rainbow Six Extraction in test: Notebook and desktop benchmarks

Although Extraction is all about an alien plague, the game is in many ways reminiscent of Rainbow Six Siege. Extraction inherits the relatively low hardware requirements from its namesake, which is over 6 years old now and still very popular - this makes owners of weaker systems happy. The graphics quality isn't the best overall, but is on a solid to good level. The physics elements and the effects are among the biggest strengths, although there is often a lot of action on the screen so it is easy to lose track.

As is typical for Ubisoft, there is nothing to complain about in the graphics options. Although there is some scrolling work in the corresponding menu, Extraction also offers a lot of setting options. While all relevant parameters of the monitor are found in the upper area (resolution, aspect ratio, frequency, V-Sync, etc.), there are almost 20 detail and quality controls that can be tuned in one go via preset. Extraction contains 7 presets, ranging from Ultra Low to Ultra.

Note: By default, the game sets the Resolution Quality to Dynamic. We used the presets for our benchmarks, but set the latter option to Fixed 100% in each case. Meanwhile, Nvidia has a hand in some features (e.g. DLSS & Reflex). The fact that some graphics options require a restart is not too annoying in view of the skippable intro videos. Only the first start turns out to be a bit annoying, as Extraction has to optimize the shaders for several minutes in extreme cases, as we know from more and more games nowadays (e.g Call of Duty).

As you would expect from Ubisoft, the title offers a built-in benchmark function. This shows a tracking shot and contains several characters and physics passages (explosions), which brings back memories of the Rainbow Six Siege benchmark. Although no performance information is presented during the good two-minute sequence, an extensive evaluation with several graphs and load indicators appears after the run. Since this is a first-person perspective title, the average should be at least 40 FPS, or better yet, 60 FPS.