Resident Evil 4 Remake review: Laptop and desktop benchmarks

Because ray tracing is fully enabled at Max settings (unlike in RE Village), the Ray Tracing preset feels rather unnecessary and wasn't used during our testing. One very nice thing is that all settings can be modified without having to restart the game. We also like the fact that the game provides written explanations and, in some cases, comparison images to help you understand what each setting does. Fans of upscaling will be pleased to find FSR 1 and 2 in the game, but DLSS is unfortunately not supported. It is also worth mentioning the game is designed to work better with a controller. Camera movement, for example, is too slow with a mouse and keyboard at standard settings.

Because Resident Evil 4 doesn't have a built-in benchmark or quick save feature, we used the first section of the game for our frame rate measurements. As you can see in the video below, we made the main character Leon walk for about 30 seconds through a narrow forested path until he reaches the entrance of an old house. As usual, frame rates were captured using CapFrameX.

As expected, systems without a dedicated GPU have a tough time with the game. Even the Radeon 680M, one of the best iGPUs on the market right now, only managed to reach above 40 fps at 720p. At Full HD (1080p), the game is only sort of playable (slightly below 30 fps) at the lowest settings. By contrast, you are in a fairly good position to enjoy RE4 Remake if you have a mid-range GPU or better. For instance, a Radeon RX 6600M is able to handle the game very well at Full HD and mid to high settings (as mentioned earlier, the game is prone to crashing at max settings because of VRAM-related issues).

To run the game at QHD or higher, you'll need a high-end graphics card with at least 10 GB of VRAM. In our testing, it took no less than a Radeon RX 6800M to ensure absolutely smooth gameplay at 1440p and max settings.

As is often the case, things get really challenging at 4K. A combination of Max preset and 4K resolution pushed even the RTX 3080 Ti, previously the most powerful laptop GPU, to its limits. 

Because gaming tests are very time-consuming and are often constrained by installation or activation limits, we are only able to provide you with part of the benchmark results at the time of publishing this article. We will be adding more graphics cards over the coming days and weeks.

We currently use these laptops to perform our gaming benchmarks. You can visit the official websites of the respective manufacturers by clicking the photos above. All other test systems (tower PCs, mini PCs, etc.) are listed below.