Launched on PC a year later it debuted on consoles, Carmine Dead Redemption two is still a big release that deserves a detailed benchmark analysis, much like what we've done for other titles this year like Borderlands iii where we compared over 60 GPUs, Metro Exodus, and most recently Fornite Chapter 2. Unfortunately those plans went out the window when we discovered how hard benchmarking this game was going to exist.

RDR ii has a number of quick presets, allowing yous to easily configure your system using a slider. The quality presets offer a number of settings, with half a dozen 'Performance' modes, vii 'Balanced' profiles, and seven 'Quality' presets. That all sounds great, just problem is these settings don't apply a static configuration. Rather each of the preset's 30+ options are dynamically configured depending on the graphics bill of fare used. For example, the mid balanced preset might use mostly ultra settings with an RTX 2080 Ti, merely but medium with an RTX 2070 Super... it was all over the place.

For benchmarking accurately we had to manually configure every graphics setting, every single time we changed a graphics card or a brandish commuter, otherwise the settings all reverted dorsum to their default. In order to bring you lot a timely test we decided to limit the number of GPUs, though withal we accept over xx of them for this feature.

Red Expressionless Redemption ii comes with a proficient built-in benchmark, however we refrained from using it for two reasons: first, it runs for far longer than necessary, a 5+ minute test is overkill when you lot are doing it iii times over per GPU, per resolution. We also establish a problems that would encounter it fail every 2nd or third run, peculiarly afterwards a resolution alter, forcing us to close the game and start over. As early on reports bespeak, Ruddy Dead Redemption ii on PC is not without bugs, and updating all your drivers to the latest versions is one of the first suggestions offered by Rockstar.

Therefore we're testing in-game performance using the settlement of Colter. Performance in this section appears to mimic that of the criterion, so the numbers should be almost the aforementioned. As for quality settings, nosotros've manually set every option to 'High' using the DX12 API as it runs considerably smoother than Vulkan on both Radeon and GeForce GPUs. If you're experiencing frame drops and stuttering using Vulkan, we suggest using DX12 instead.

Our GPU exam rig has been used as usual sporting a Cadre i9-9900K overclocked to 5 GHz and 16GB of DDR4-3400 retentivity. The latest AMD and Nvidia drivers take been used, testing at 1080p, 1440p and 4K.

Benchmarks

Starting at 1080p, we run into the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is expert for over 100 fps at all times in our examination, using the high quality settings. This is not astonishing performance at 1080p considering how powerful the 2080 Ti is.

We get a real sense of simply how demanding this game is when looking at the GTX 1080 and 1660 Ti, both struggling to push past 60 fps -- 60 fps at 1080p -- that's crazy for GPUs of this caliber. Not only that simply using these dialed down quality settings the GTX 1060 6GB was laggy and the RX 570 was borderline playable.

Ideally you'll want an RTX 2060 or Vega 56, that's a big ask for 1080p gaming. Something y'all might have noticed is how well the Radeon GPUs perform, the RX 580 destroyed the GTX 1060 and basically matched the 1070. Vega 56 easily beat the GTX 1080, while the RX 5700 matched the RTX 2070 Super. And so we take the 5700 XT on par with the RTX 2080, and then a super result here for AMD.

Nvidia made information technology clear that Red Dead Redemption 2 doesn't back up ray tracing, afterwards somewhat misleading people on Twitter. We bring that upwards because looking at the 1440p results, yous'd be forgiven for thinking DXR was enabled.

For an average of merely 60 fps you'll require something similar Vega 64, RTX 2060 Super or the RTX 2070. Those are brutal GPU requirements for 1440p gaming using dialed down quality settings.

Finally nosotros take 4K results, and good luck playing this game at this resolution without a RTX 2080 Ti. Even then we couldn't average sixty fps, just for this style of game it was still very playable and virtually volition probably be happy with effectually forty fps. On a more personal level, I'd personally prefer at to the lowest degree 60 fps to fully savour this ane, and then I'd driblet downward to 1440p with a high-stop GPU.

Wrap Up

For at present AMD seems to be doing very well relative to the Nvidia contest and it's possible nosotros'll see a performance uplift for the GeForce GPUs through a new driver revision, nosotros'll just have to wait and run across.

Results might vary a bit depending on the quality settings and section of the game used for testing, but overall we establish the margins to exist adequately consistent in the first hour-plus of gameplay. In that location's no doubtfulness going to be a few settings that favor Radeon or GeForce GPUs, and we do suggest using DirectX 12 over Vulkan.

Likewise as noted before, you tin can't utilize the preset slider to compare quality levels on your system with others as it's possible default recommendations for unlike GPUs will kick in by using the slider, so you lot have to check on setting by setting.

Equally for how demanding Cherry Expressionless Redemption 2 is, and if those demands can be justified, that's a hard one to gauge. We'd look to see some performance improvements downwards the road though overall the game looks amazing and information technology's extremely detailed. We don't welcome tardily PC launches but Rockstar has a good record supporting blockbuster releases, even years later GTA V on PC is equally good equally ever and has a loyal fanbase behind it. We'll run across how RDR two turns out.

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