Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart: Laptop and desktop benchmarks

We are currently running our gaming benchmarks with these notebooks. Clicking on the photos will take you to the respective manufacturer's homepage. All other test systems (tower PCs, mini PCs, ...) are listed at the end of the article.

In general, Rift Apart offers numerous modern features like upscaling (Nvidia DLSS, AMD FSR, Intel XeSS) and ray tracing (reflections, shadows, ambient occlusion) although the latter - as mentioned at the beginning - unfortunately cannot be activated on AMD GPUs yet. Owners of Nvidia chips from the RTX 4000 generation, on the other hand, can be happy about the presence of Frame Generation. The fact that there are no comparison pictures for the different settings can be forgiven in view of the available descriptions. Top: Changes to the graphics options do not require a restart of the game. Apart from one crash, Rift Apart ran stably in our benchmarks.

We use the beginning of the game for the speed measurements since the initial platform ride (see video) is very well suited for benchmarks due to the many figures shown and the identical sequence. The frame rate of the 25-second sequence is recorded with the tool CapFrameX. Although the title "only" plays in the third-person perspective, we would recommend at least 40 FPS because of the fast sequence (movement, fights, etc.).

As long as you limit yourself to 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, the system requirements are quite moderate. Although even one of the strongest iGPUs, the Radeon 680M, only supports low details in Full-HD with just under 30 FPS; current mid-range models like the Geforce RTX 4050, on the other hand, also manage high to maximum settings smoothly.

For QHD displays, it should tend to be a high-end GPU. For example, 2560 x 1,440 pixels and the Very High preset run with a GeForce RTX 3070 Ti smoothly.

As usual, things really get going in the 4K range. A mixture of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels and the highest preset screams for a lot of VRAM and a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti or better.

The ray tracing performance varies greatly depending on the graphics card. For 1,920 x 1,080 pixels and maximum settings, for example, an RTX 4060. It gets curious with 3,840 x 2,160 pixels when DLSS (we chose the Quality setting) and Frame Generation are enabled. While the Desktop RTX 4080 and the Notebook RTX 4090 delivered (almost) identical rates in comparison to Full HD without DLSS and FG, the performance partly dropped extremely with weaker GPUs (see RTX 4050 to RTX 4070). Possibly, the VRAM is particularly heavily stressed here, so everything below 16 GB leads to problems.

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 for the publication of the articles. Further graphics cards will be installed later.