The Witcher 2

The Witcher 2 is a well-designed role-playing game with high hardware requirements. In the following article, we will show how demanding the game can be on the hardware.

Florian Glaser (translated by Vinay Pradhan), Published 11/02/2011 🇩🇪

How we test

It is possible to skip chapters "The Witcher 2" and so we skip ahead to a demanding graphic scene: the appearance of the dragon (Kingslayer/Königsmörder). The recording starts as soon as we get control over the Hero - Geralt. During the dragon attacks, we run to the end of the tunnel to the left. At that point the FRAPS recording stops.

1920x1080, Very High Preset, Super-Sampling, Radeon HD 5850

Analysis of the Benchmarks

We do not recommend installation of this game for users with low-end or middle-end graphic cards. The popular GeForce GT 540M can only manage 15 fps with medium details and a resolution of 1366x768 pixels. A high-end graphic card like the GeForce GTX 580M or a Radeon HD 6990M is necessary to run the game on high details and active Anti-Aliasing. Ultra high details and a Full HD resolution (1920x1080 pixels) with Super-Sampling is too much for any currently available notebook graphic card. Even expensive dual-GPU systems have to give up at these settings.

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Pos	Model	< Prev Next > The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011)
Pos	Model	low 1024x768 low	med. 1366x768 medium	high 1600x900 high onAA	ultra 1920x1080 very high UbersamplingAA
298	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680	46	47	45	25
316	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590			47	16
344	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580	48	48	48	20
398	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI	46	46	44	11
420	AMD Radeon HD 6870			44	14
421	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470		48	43	13
437	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M	45	45	32	9
455	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M	72	41	31	10
490	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M	43.3	38.5	25.9	7.2ⁿ²
584	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450	47	36	23	6
593	ATI Radeon HD 4850	48	34	22	7
612	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M	25	21	15	4
666	AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT	39	27	17	13
719	NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M	29	18
751	NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M	24	15
796	AMD Radeon HD 7660G	21.5	17	8
806	AMD Radeon HD 6630M	23
880	Intel HD Graphics 4000	21	13
894	AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5	21	14	7
Pos	Model	< Prev Next >The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Pos	Model	low	med.	high	ultra
952	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M	15	9	6
1009	Intel HD Graphics 3000	13
1057	Intel HD Graphics 2000	9

Legend
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.
The value in the fields displays the average frame rate of all values in the database. Move your cursor over the value to see individual results.