Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection review: Laptop and desktop benchmarks
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Technical aspects
The wildly popular and successful Uncharted series is celebrating its debut on PC with the Legacy of Thieves Collection. Thanks to various refinements, the games look great despite being several years old. Besides Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, the spin-off The Lost Legacy is also included in the compilation. Because the collection contains two games, it requires a whopping amount of storage space with its file size of more than 120 GB (download size: around 90 GB).
Based on visuals alone, there is nothing much to complain about the collection. At higher settings, the game's graphics dazzles with very sharp textures and sophisticated lighting. But we are most impressed by the thoughtfully designed and animated character models. In addition, the environments often feature an impressively high level of details.
In terms of the game's technical performance, not everything that glitters is gold. Firstly, we encountered several crashes despite having installed the latest drivers. Secondly, the engine is very demanding at high resolutions and settings, which is not least related to the high VRAM requirement (around 8 GB at 4K/Ultra). We also find it annoying that, when being booted up for the first time, the game needs to spend minutes building and optimising shaders (à la Call of Duty) and takes quite a long time to load.
The graphics menu left us with mixed feelings. Even though the Advanced tab contains a few presets that – credit to where it's due – can be selected without requiring a restart, you are limited to just six quality options (see screenshot). More options can be found in the display menu. Besides FSR and DLSS (GPU-dependent), this menu allows you to adjust the render scale, VSync, brightness, motion blur and HDR. You also have the option to cap the frame rate at 30 and enable an FPS counter. Unfortunately, the game only offers windowed and borderless windowed display modes and lacks a "real" full-screen mode.
Benchmark
Our benchmark sequence was taken from Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, more specifically the beginning of the game, where many characters and objects are on screen at the same time. After the opening cutscene, we captured around 30 seconds of footage using the tool CapFrameX. You can watch the video below to see the section of the game in question. This is an immensely challenging sequence that can almost represent a "worst-case" scenario. The average frame rate should be at least 40 FPS for the game to be considered reasonably playable.
FHD (1,920 x 1,080)
In general, iGPUs have a hard time running Uncharted. For instance, the Iris Xe Graphics G7 couldn't run the game smoothly even at 1,280 x 720 – with settings turned all the way down to minimum, mind you. Only the Radeon 680M was able to deliver moderately smooth frame rates during the test. You'll definitely need a mid-range dedicated GPU or better to run the game at 1,920 x 1,080. A GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and above will let you play the game at the Low and Medium presets. For high to max settings, the game requires a graphics card with at least 6 or 8 GB of VRAM
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection | |
1920x1080 Low Preset 1920x1080 Medium Preset 1920x1080 High Preset 1920x1080 Ultra Preset | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-12900K | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-12900K | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU, i9-12900HK | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800M, R9 5900HX | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600M, R7 5800H | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, i7-11800H | |
AMD Radeon 680M, R9 6900HS | |
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs, i7-1165G7 |
QHD (2,560 x 1,440)
A real gaming machine is needed if you want to enjoy the game at 2,560 x 1,440 and Ultra preset. Only a GeForce RTX 3060, Radeon RX 6600M or above is able to deliver enough power to run the game at these settings.
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection | |
2560x1440 Ultra Preset | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-12900K | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-12900K | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU, i9-12900HK | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800M, R9 5900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600M, R7 5800H | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H |
UHD (3,840 x 2,160)
Things get really serious at 4K. In the laptop segment right now, only the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is capable of running the game properly at 3,840 x 2,160 and max settings. But a greater number of high-end desktop GPUs are able to handle the game at this resolution.
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection | |
3840x2160 Ultra Preset | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, i9-12900K | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, i9-12900K | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU, i9-12900HK | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H | |
AMD Radeon RX 6800M, R9 5900HX | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, i7-11800H | |
AMD Radeon RX 6600M, R7 5800H |
Note
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.
Device | Graphics card | Processor | RAM | Operating system |
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MSI Raider GE76 12UHS | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti @175 W TGP (16 GB GDDR6) | Intel Core i9-12900HK | 2 x 16 GB DDR5 | Windows 11 |
XMG Neo 15 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 @165 W TGP (16 GB GDDR6) | Intel Core i7-11800H | 2 x 16 GB DDR4 | Windows 11 |
XMG Neo 17 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 @140 W TGP (8 GB GDDR6) | Intel Core i7-11800H | 2 x 16 GB DDR4 | Windows 11 |
XMG Core 15 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 @130 W TGP (6 GB GDDR6) | Intel Core i7-11800H | 2 x 16 GB DDR4 | Windows 11 |
XMG Focus 17 | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti @75 W TGP (4 GB GDDR6) | Intel Core i7-11800H | 2 x 16 GB DDR4 | Windows 11 |
Asus ROG Strix G15 | AMD Radeon RX 6800M (12 GB GDDR6) | AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 | Windows 11 |
Lenovo Legion 5 | AMD Radeon RX 6600M (8 GB GDDR6) | AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 | Windows 11 |
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 | AMD Radeon 680M | AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS | 2 x 16 GB DDR5 | Windows 11 |
Zotac ZBOX CI665 Nano | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96 CUs) | Intel Core i7-1165G7 | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 | Windows 11 |
Desktop-PC I | MSI GeForce RTX 3080 (10 GB GDDR6X) MSI GeForce RTX 3070 (8 GB GDDR6) |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 2 x 16 GB DDR4 | Windows 11 |
Desktop-PC II | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 FE (24 GB GDDR6X) Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (8 GB GDDR6X) Nvidia Titan RTX (24 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) AMD Radeon RX 6800 (16 GB DDR6) AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (12 GB DDR6) AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT (8 GB GDDR6) AMD Radeon RX 6600 (8 GB GDDR6) 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 Ryzen 9 7950X | 2 x 16 GB DDR5 | Windows 11 |
Desktop-PC III | Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super FE | Intel Core i9-11900K | 2 x 8 GB DDR4 | Windows 11 |
4K monitors | Nvidia driver | AMD driver |
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Asus PB287Q, Philips Brilliance 329P9H, Acer Predator XB321HK | ForceWare 526.47 | Adrenalin 22.10.3 |