Resident Evil Village Performance Analysis

Horror game with impressive visuals. RE Village is on the growing list of titles with real-time ray tracing support. However, even without RT effects, the latest instalment in the Resident Evil series looks mighty impressive. Read this article to learn about the system requirements.

Florian Glaser, 👁 Florian Glaser (translated by Stanislav Kokhanyuk), Published 05/11/2021 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 ...

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While Resident Evil 7 was mostly set indoors, Resident Evil Village offers many expansive outdoor areas, which partially reduce the horror factor, because they provide more freedom of movement.

Capcom’s proprietary RE Engine, which managed to impress us when we were analysing the previous entry in the series, impresses once again, thanks to the numerous improvements made by Capcom. When it comes to the textures, character detail and the richness of the environment, Resident Evil Village is way ahead of most other horror/action games.

This is why the game size of only 28 GB looks so impressive. These days most AAA titles require significantly more storage space.

However, Resident Evil Village is quite a VRAM hog. According to the built-in VRAM gauge, the game requires 4 GB of video memory at 1080p even on the lowest settings. On high settings, the title needs almost 6 GB of VRAM at 1080p. On the highest settings, the game requires a whopping 12 GB of VRAM!

Howbeit, Resident Evil Village still manages to run well on weaker GPUs. It requires much more VRAM than Resident Evil 7, though. All in all, we would describe the game as well optimised, because even mid-range graphics cards can achieve surprisingly high frame rates in RE Village.

As we mentioned earlier, Resident Evil Village offers support for RT effects. They can only be enabled on supported GPUs, though. There is a dedicated RT preset, which we used for some of our benchmarks. It sets the RT settings to medium.

With ray tracing on, we saw a 30% drop in performance. Most gamers will be able to notice such a steep drop in performance. Nevertheless, in most cases, players will not have to enable DLSS to get decent frame rates in Resident Evil Village with RT effects enabled.

The graphics settings menu left a mixed impression. It offers more than 30 graphics settings. There are also presets which allow players to change most settings in one fell swoop. We conducted our benchmarks using presets. We only made a few changes such as disabling vertical synchronisation and removing the frame rate cap. We also used the Normal Rendering mode.

Changing the resolution in Resident Evil Village can be quite annoying because resolution changes apply instantaneously. Furthermore, the graphics settings menu looks really “console-y”. It is not easy to navigate on a computer. On the plus side, the game explains what each setting does with the help of text and images.

We did not encounter any technical problems during our gaming session. The fact that the game does not always start in fullscreen mode can be easily overlooked (simply press Alt + Enter to enter the fullscreen mode). What is more, the game stutters for a short while on certain systems right after the loading is complete. 

Some caution is advisable when using external monitors. For instance, both the MSI GT76 (RTX 2080) and the MSI GP65 (RTX 2070) had severe issues with frame pacing when we connected them to our 4K monitor. This was probably caused by an unstable driver.

Benchmark

As you can see from the video below, our benchmark takes place at the end of the tutorial mission. There is a typewriter in the village’s church, which allows you to save the game manually. We decided to use this location for our benchmark. Our 30-second benchmark starts after we leave the church. Our benchmark sequence consists of us running through the village. We use CapFrameX to record the frame rates.

Results

FHD (1920x1080)

Because Resident Evil Village needs so much VRAM almost all entry-level GPUs cannot run it smoothly. Even Nvidia and AMD graphics cards with 2 GB of video memory cannot handle the game on the lowest settings at 1080p. Gamers will need a graphics card with 4 GB of VRAM such as the Radeon RX 5500M or GeForce GTX 1650 to achieve playable frame rates at 1080p on high settings.

Resident Evil Village
1920x1080 Prioritize Performance Preset 1920x1080 Balanced Preset 1920x1080 Prioritize Graphics Preset 1920x1080 Max Preset
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio	191 (88.6^min, 138^P0.1, 146^P1) fps ∼40% 188 (90.9^min, 128^P0.1, 141^P1) fps ∼43% 187 (118^min, 128^P0.1, 141^P1) fps ∼44% 186 (97.4^min, 109^P0.1, 134^P1) fps ∼42%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X	189 (127^min, 139^P0.1, 147^P1) fps ∼39% 185 (112^min, 129^P0.1, 142^P1) fps ∼42% 183 (124^min, 131^P0.1, 142^P1) fps ∼43% 183 (118^min, 133^P0.1, 141^P1) fps ∼42%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (Desktop), i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti	185 (96.2^min, 124^P0.1, 141^P1) fps ∼38% 183 (71.3^min, 122^P0.1, 136^P1) fps ∼41% 181 (116^min, 125^P0.1, 141^P1) fps ∼43% 181 (50.3^min, 121^P0.1, 140^P1) fps ∼41%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X	184 (65^min, 127^P0.1, 141^P1) fps ∼38% 181 (124^min, 128^P0.1, 139^P1) fps ∼41% 181 (113^min, 123^P0.1, 137^P1) fps ∼43% 180 (59.1^min, 125^P0.1, 139^P1) fps ∼41%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 (Desktop), i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 2080	182 (104^min, 129^P0.1, 140^P1) fps ∼38% 180 (120^min, 125^P0.1, 136^P1) fps ∼41% 177 (118^min, 127^P0.1, 139^P1) fps ∼42% 166 (111^min, 122^P0.1, 134^P1) fps ∼38%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile, i9-9900K MSI GT76 Titan DT 9SG	171 (66.4^min, 86.1^P0.1, 124^P1) fps ∼35% 163 (43.4^min, 58^P0.1, 86.8^P1) fps ∼37% 159 (70.3^min, 90.6^P0.1, 96.8^P1) fps ∼38% 145 (31.1^min, 45.2^P0.1, 85^P1) fps ∼33%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile, i7-9750H MSI GP65 Leopard 9SF	135 (9.55^min, 87.2^P0.1, 105^P1) fps ∼28% 126 (77.9^min, 84.8^P0.1, 94.1^P1) fps ∼29% 126 (9.39^min, 92.9^P0.1, 104^P1) fps ∼30% 110 (83.3^min, 86.9^P0.1, 90.9^P1) fps ∼25%
AMD Radeon RX 5600M, R7 4800H Dell G5 15 SE	123 (72.9^min, 96.1^P0.1, 101^P1) fps ∼25% 110 (83.9^min, 86.6^P0.1, 90^P1) fps ∼25% 109 (83.6^min, 87.4^P0.1, 90.8^P1) fps ∼26% 95.8 (52.3^min, 56.9^P0.1, 77.5^P1) fps ∼22%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, i7-9750H MSI GE65 Raider 9SE	117 (48.1^min, 50.5^P0.1, 66.8^P1) fps ∼24% 106 (46.9^min, 52.9^P0.1, 69^P1) fps ∼24% 95.1 (24.2^min, 28.8^P0.1, 39.6^P1) fps ∼23% 93.2 (12.9^min, 50^P0.1, 65.7^P1) fps ∼21%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile, i7-9750H MSI GP65 Leopard 9SD	111 (70.4^min, 74.1^P0.1, 82.4^P1) fps ∼23% 105 (69.1^min, 71.5^P0.1, 78.6^P1) fps ∼24% 99 (42^min, 73.4^P0.1, 83.1^P1) fps ∼23% 86.4 (42.7^min, 69.5^P0.1, 71.1^P1) fps ∼20%
AMD Radeon RX 5500M, R7 3750H MSI Alpha 15	97.8 (5.7^min, 21^P0.1, 73.1^P1) fps ∼20% 89.4 (40^min, 46.6^P0.1, 68.9^P1) fps ∼20% 84.6 (22.9^min, 24.5^P0.1, 43.5^P1) fps ∼20% 48.7 (9.68^min, 12.5^P0.1, 24.1^P1) fps ∼11%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile, i7-10750H MSI GP75	94.5 (20.3^min, 72.4^P0.1, 73.8^P1) fps ∼20% 82.9 (65.8^min, 65.9^P0.1, 66.9^P1) fps ∼19% 74.7 (50.3^min, 57.4^P0.1, 58.8^P1) fps ∼18% 61.1 (14^min, 34.9^P0.1, 51.6^P1) fps ∼14%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile, i7-10750H MSI GL75	88.9 (65.8^min, 66.2^P0.1, 67.6^P1) fps ∼18% 71.4 (49.3^min, 56.6^P0.1, 57.8^P1) fps ∼16% 64.1 (44.1^min, 51^P0.1, 52.4^P1) fps ∼15% 52 (16.2^min, 30.1^P0.1, 44.8^P1) fps ∼12%
NVIDIA GeForce MX350, i5-10210U Honor Magicbook Pro	16.8 (12.3^min, 12.5^P0.1, 12.9^P1) fps ∼3% 13.9 (9.44^min, 10.4^P0.1, 10.7^P1) fps ∼3% 13.7 (9.09^min, 10.1^P0.1, 10.9^P1) fps ∼3%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile, 6820HK MSI GT62VR	62.5 (50.5^min, 50.7^P0.1, 51.5^P1) fps ∼14% 60.8 (46.3^min, 50.2^P0.1, 50.9^P1) fps ∼14% 53.9 (43.5^min, 43.8^P0.1, 44.7^P1) fps ∼12%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile, i7-7700HQ MSI GL62M 7RD	24.6 (2.27^min, 4.06^P0.1, 20.9^P1) fps ∼6% 23.3 (8.92^min, 10.4^P0.1, 20^P1) fps ∼6% 18.4 (1.865^min, 2.04^P0.1, 13^P1) fps ∼4%

QHD (2560x1440)

GPUs with 6 or 8 GB of VRAM can easily handle Resident Evil Village. Gamers will need a Radeon RX 5600M or GeForce GTX 1660 Ti to achieve playable frame rates at 1440p on the highest settings.

Resident Evil Village
2560x1440 Max Preset
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio	182 (40.4^min, 126^P0.1, 142^P1) fps ∼63%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X	179 (116^min, 128^P0.1, 141^P1) fps ∼62%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (Desktop), i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti	147 (37.5^min, 117^P0.1, 123^P1) fps ∼51%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X	142 (32^min, 116^P0.1, 120^P1) fps ∼49%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 (Desktop), i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 2080	115 (37.9^min, 94.7^P0.1, 97.1^P1) fps ∼40%
AMD Radeon RX 5600M, R7 4800H Dell G5 15 SE	59.6 (27.3^min, 33.5^P0.1, 49.5^P1) fps ∼21%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, i7-9750H MSI GE65 Raider 9SE	56.6 (15.6^min, 23.8^P0.1, 28.5^P1) fps ∼20%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile, i7-9750H MSI GP65 Leopard 9SD	52.4 (23.4^min, 24.7^P0.1, 27^P1) fps ∼18%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile, i7-10750H MSI GP75	38.6 (20.4^min, 32^P0.1, 32.6^P1) fps ∼13%
AMD Radeon RX 5500M, R7 3750H MSI Alpha 15	36 (9.76^min, 12.6^P0.1, 20.9^P1) fps ∼13%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile, i7-10750H MSI GL75	26.3 (19.5^min, 20.9^P0.1, 21.5^P1) fps ∼9%

UHD (3840x2160)

Gamers will need a high-end GPU such as the GeForce RTX 2080 to run RE Village smoothly at 4K on the highest settings.

Resident Evil Village
3840x2160 Max Preset
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X	117 (23.3^min, 97.8^P0.1, 101^P1) fps ∼75%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio	103 (22.6^min, 50.7^P0.1, 87.8^P1) fps ∼66%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (Desktop), i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti	74.3 (32.1^min, 34^P0.1, 38.9^P1) fps ∼48%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X	70.8 (21.3^min, 33.5^P0.1, 39.8^P1) fps ∼46%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 (Desktop), i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 2080	58.4 (32.9^min, 33.5^P0.1, 37.3^P1) fps ∼38%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, i7-9750H MSI GE65 Raider 9SE	31.7 (12.8^min, 22.6^P0.1, 27^P1) fps ∼20%
AMD Radeon RX 5600M, R7 4800H Dell G5 15 SE	30.4 (15.9^min, 17.1^P0.1, 23.9^P1) fps ∼20%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile, i7-9750H MSI GP65 Leopard 9SD	28.6 (23.4^min, 24^P0.1, 24.8^P1) fps ∼18%
AMD Radeon RX 5500M, R7 3750H MSI Alpha 15	17.8 (8.24^min, 9.49^P0.1, 13.2^P1) fps ∼11%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile, i7-10750H MSI GP75	16.4 (9.6^min, 13.3^P0.1, 14^P1) fps ∼11%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile, i7-10750H MSI GL75	13.8 (8.67^min, 10.3^P0.1, 12.1^P1) fps ∼9%

Ray tracing

You will need an RTX 2060 or better for an RT experience.

Resident Evil Village
1920x1080 Ray Tracing Preset
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio	150 (98.1^min, 111^P0.1, 120^P1) fps ∼58%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Suprim X	144 (87.7^min, 107^P0.1, 116^P1) fps ∼55%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (Desktop), i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti	138 (93.8^min, 101^P0.1, 113^P1) fps ∼53%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 3X	129 (95^min, 104^P0.1, 109^P1) fps ∼50%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 (Desktop), i9-9900K MSI GeForce RTX 2080	108 (80.7^min, 87.9^P0.1, 91.5^P1) fps ∼42%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile, i9-9900K MSI GT76 Titan DT 9SG	96.9 (21.8^min, 60.6^P0.1, 80.9^P1) fps ∼37%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile, i7-9750H MSI GP65 Leopard 9SF	71.4 (37.1^min, 46.4^P0.1, 59.3^P1) fps ∼27%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile, i7-9750H MSI GE65 Raider 9SE	58.5 (36.3^min, 40.6^P0.1, 48.6^P1) fps ∼23%

Note

Because benchmarking video games is very time consuming and is often constrained by installation/activation limits, at the time of publishing, we were able only to provide a part of our performance analysis of Resident Evil Village. Other graphics cards will be added in the coming days and weeks.

Overview

Test Systems

Device	GPU	CPU	RAM	OS
Desktop PC I	MSI GeForce RTX 3090 (24 GB GDDR6X) MSI GeForce RTX 3080 (10 GB GDDR6X) MSI GeForce RTX 3070 (8 GB GDDR6) MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (11 GB GDDR6) MSI GeForce RTX 2080 (8 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i9-9900K	4 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
Desktop PC II	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11 GB GDDR5X) Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti (6 GB GDDR5)	Intel Core i7-8086K, Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming	2 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
Desktop PC III	Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 FE(24 GB GDDR6X) Nvidia Titan RTX (24 GB GDDR6) Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super (8 GB GDDR6) Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super (8 GB GDDR6) Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super (8 GB GDDR6) KFA2 GeForce GTX 1660 Super (6 GB GDDR6) PNY GeForce GTX 1660 (6 GB GDDR5) KFA2 GeForce GTX 1650 Super (4 GB GDDR6) KFA2 GeForce GTX 1650 (4 GB GDDR5) AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (8 GB GDDR6) AMD Radeon RX 5700 (8 GB GDDR6) AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (6 GB GDDR6) AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (8 GB GDDR6) AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (8 GB HBM2)	AMD Ryzen 9 5900X	2 x 16 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI GT76	Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 (8 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i9-9900K	2 x 16 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI GP65	Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 (8 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i7-9750H	2 x 16 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI GE65	Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (6 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i7-9750H	2 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI GP65	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (6 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i7-9750H	2 x 16 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI GP75	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti (4 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i7-10750H	2 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI GL75	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 (4 GB GDDR6)	Intel Core i7-10750H	2 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI GT62VR	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB GDDR5)	Intel Core i7-6820HK	2 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI GE72	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (2 GB GDDR5)	Intel Core i7-7700HQ	2 x 4 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI GL62	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 (2 GB GDDR5)	Intel Core i7-7700HQ	2 x 4 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
Honor MagicBook Pro	Nvidia GeForce MX350 (2 GB GDDR5)	Intel Core i7-10210U	1 x 16 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
Dell G5 15 SE	AMD Radeon RX5600M (6 GB GDDR6)	AMD Ryzen 7 4800H	2 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI Alpha 15	AMD Radeon RX5500M (4 GB GDDR6)	AMD Ryzen 7 3750H	2 x 8 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit
MSI Prestige 14 Evo	Intel Iris Xe (96 CUs)	Intel Core i7-1185G7	1 x 16 GB DDR4	Windows 10 64 Bit

4K monitors	Nvidia drivers	AMD drivers
Asus PB287Q, Philips Brilliance 329P9H, Acer Predator XB321HK	ForceWare 466.27	Adrenalin 21.5.1

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5	Stutters – This game is very likely to stutter and have poor frame rates. Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, average frame rates are expected to fall below 25fps
	May Stutter – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, stutters and poor frame rates are expected.
30	Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 25fps
40	Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 35fps
60	Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 58fps
	May Run Fluently – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, fluent frame rates are expected.
?	Uncertain – This graphics card experienced unexpected performance issues during testing for this game. A slower card may be able to achieve better and more consistent frame rates than this particular GPU running the same benchmark scene.
	Uncertain – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game and no reliable interpolation can be made based on the performances of surrounding cards of the same class or family.
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