Deep Silver has just released Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 on PC. Powered by CRYENGINE, it’s time to benchmark it and examine its performance on the PC.
For this PC Performance Analysis, we used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 7900XTX, as well as NVIDIA’s RTX 2080Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 4090, RTX 5080 and RTX 5090. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 572.16, and the Radeon Adrenalin Edition 25.1.1 drivers. Moreover, we’ve disabled the second CCD on our 7950X3D.
Warhorse has added a respectable amount of graphics settings. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Textures, Shadows, Particles, Objects, Global Illumination and more.
The devs have not included a built-in benchmark tool. So, for both our CPU and GPU benchmarks, we used the open-world area right after the Prologue mission. This was one of the most demanding areas early in the game. Thus, it should give us a pretty good idea of how the rest of it runs.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 appears to have amazing multi-core CPU support. This is shocking as it uses CRYENGINE, an engine that still had major CPU issues in the Crysis Remastered Trilogy. But right now, KCD2 is one of the best multi-threaded games on PC. So, kudos to Crytek and Warhorse for finally addressing one of the biggest issues of CRYENGINE.
For our GPU benchmarks, we’re using the Experimental Settings and not the Ultra Settings. The Experimental Settings are for “future” GPUs. On the RTX 5090, the Ultra settings ran 40-45% faster than the Experimental Settings. And, as you can see, by lowering the graphics presets, you can gain a lot of performance. So, consider our benchmarks as stress tests.
At both 1080p and 1440p, the only GPUs that could run the game smoothly were the NVIDIA RTX 4090, the RTX 5080 and the RTX 5090. As for Native 4K/Experimental Settings, the only GPU that was able to offer constant 60FPS at all times was the NVIDIA RTX 5090.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 seems to run best on NVIDIA’s GPUs. The NVIDIA RTX 3080 offers far greater performance than the AMD RX 6900XT. Similarly, the NVIDIA RTX 5080 was 35-48% faster than the AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX.
Speaking of the RTX 5080, it was 18% slower than the RTX 4090, and 28% slower than the RTX 5090. On the other hand, the RTX 5090 was 15-25% faster than the RTX 4090.
Graphics-wise, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 looks great. As with the first game, what really stands out is its world. The environments look absolutely beautiful. The characters also look detailed, but they are nowhere close to what we’ve seen in other triple-A games. Thanks to CRYENGINE’s SVOGI, the game’s lighting also feels great. There are some pop-ins in the open-world area, but they are not as annoying as those we’ve seen in other titles.
Now I know some try to pass this game as the “best example of why you don’t need Ray Tracing“. That’s total BS though as these outlets are simply trying to overhype it. That, or they need to see an eye doctor. Or they simply haven’t played all the path-traced games. Because let’s be realistic here. These graphics are not mind-blowing. You can easily notice all the shortcomings. SSR artifacts? Yep, you will immediately notice them. Pop-ins when exploring the environments? There are some. Less detailed characters? Certainly, especially when compared to Hellblade 2. Plus, the textures could have been of higher quality.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying this is a bad looking game. It’s not. It looks great. But at the same time, and solely regarding its visual quality, it does not come close to what I’ve seen from Hellblade 2, Alan Wake 2 or Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Again, I’m not downplaying the game here. This is strictly regarding its visuals. When it comes to a visual/performance ratio, KCD2 is among the best you can find.
All in all, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is easily one of the most optimized PC games of 2025. I’m really impressed by how the game looks and runs. I also did not experience any major stuttering issues. Plus, the game can scale on a huge range of GPUs with its in-game graphics presets. So, kudos to Warhorse for delivering such a polished PC game in 2025!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Didn't start this one yet, need to finish some others first.
But knowing it's polished is indeed satisfying, cause I do love the settings in which this take place.
Thanks for yet another great contribuiton, Johnny The Perv!
Btw, when n00d mod?
LOL
You should play the first one if you haven't. It's great
It’s one the games I’ve played the most!
;D
I love it!
Its called experimental for a reason. You should have used ultra.
"far superior"
i can see zero difference from ultra to experimental, except a massive drop in FPS.
Cryengine > Unreal garbage
Anti-wokies have been really quiet on this one, they have already bought and are playing silently in the closet.
Top seller on Steam.
1 million units sold in 24h.
185K people playing right now, no doubt it'll easily cross 250K+ tomorrow.
Very Positive score on Steam (91%)
The market has spoken, people not only want wokeness in their game, they NEED IT!
Get woke, sell tons! Thank you, mr. Barba.
This game is not interested in your silly culture wars. It is neither anti-woke nor woke. It is simply well written, and what is in it, makes sense, is not preachy or pandering. And that is why it successful.
I agree, homosexuality is not woke, it's a completely normal manifestation of the human condition that has existed for ages, especially in Europe.
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You're missing the point. It doesn't matter that there are gay characters in a game. That's not what people refer to as "woke". It's when modern politics and messages are shoehorned in where it doesn't belong is when it becomes a problem.
You're as bad as the Nazis on steam tbh.
Ah yes, I'm as bad as people that would make every non-white race disappear in an instant if they could, because I support marginalized minorities.
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Love it! Keep mocking those raytards!
Vavra is a coward afraid of any real discussion which is why he went scorched earth on the steam page KNOWING he could be called out for numerous lies. He's a pathological liar who lied about characters being straight in the first game in documentation and interviews, claims historical accuracy when there was no synagogue in the location he claims. Claims to be a victim due to being Jewish just like the mythical Jews that are in a location they never were in the game. Has attacked Christians repeatedly and unfairly with historical inaccuracies or flat out lies on Twitter and in his game, yet cries anti-semitism (that term didn't exist yet he stuck it in his game) if you ask him about the Crimean slave trade and Jewish involvement, insanity like Ishut 3 verse 11 or historical figures like Simon of Trent, Jewish involvement in the African slave trade with people like Aaron Lopez, DNA tests of the Conquistadors/Columbus. Can't forget that he says Jews never poisoned wells when they have done that in Palestine per their own documents in the last century.
Vavra wants you to trust his Jewish ancestors over your own and he's changing history he claims is real to do so in his mid game. He's a supremacist who hides what his people did and who wants you oblivious that they still do it. Google herpes and circumcision as an example.
This is a game where you can't enter a church but where you can enter a synagogue bearing the star of Chiun/Remphan that was forbidden for the Jews to ever use. Is he gonna sell the historical lie that it was called the "star of David" back then instead of tell you that it's a magic symbol that worships Saturn and was used by the occult and always seen with the pentagram? The Brittannica will tell you all of this.
Grow up…
Enjoy the grooming simulator where a 15 year old boy is the only romance option that doesn't involve cuckoldry that you have to forgive. This game is made by someone who hates you and that views you as goyim that his people will enslave once they build the third temple.
Why didn't you complain about his age when the first game came out, Brucy?
Or the age of all the girls that "15 yo boy" fugged without mercy?
Jesus you're a lunatic loser…
Oh f*k off, you can't enter a church wtf are you smoking, gtfo here with you gay talking points, right now Warhorse are the best pc game devs, they are better than Cdpr were when Witcher 3 came out.
God, your like a Banned Book A.I., your summaries are Top notch. We live In Their Narrative and Economy. look at the replies.
yeah effing tribesters and their bullshti. Criminals in everything they do. Lopez, gomez, rivera, monsanto and many many more crypto marranos like castro, marx, nietzsche etc all over the place. They are deception based talmudick-kabbalist scum. Both the hexagram of black magic-hermeticism and the pentagram of magic are "stars" of evil the tribesters and brickmasons and others have used for a long time. The sigil of saturn-satan has a pentagram on one side and a hexagram on the other, one is kabbalistic and the other is more talmudick-legalist "order". In Acts 7 I think the star is of saturn which was likely a 5 pointed not 6 pointed star. Lookup a sick book by a tribemember in 1888, earlier really, called the Hebrew Talisman. Itsvan Bakony reveals lots about the crypto army worldwide etc etc
Turned out how a**hole, GOTY ?
this is a really well optimized game….warhorse has learned a lot about the cryengine from the 1st game.
Time for the champaign then
"Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 appears to have amazing multi-core CPU support. This is shocking as it uses CRYENGINE, an engine that still had major CPU issues in the Crysis Remastered Trilogy. But right now, KCD2 is one of the best multi-threaded games on PC. So, kudos to Crytek and Warhorse for finally addressing one of the biggest issues of CRYENGINE."
Ahhhh, a breath of fresh air.
this game is using that old cryengine kcd 1 all files same copy pasta game from warhorse sh*t clunkiest no.1 devs that are available, kcd 2 is okyish but visuals didn't impressed me like did with silent hill 2, etc etc, kcd has worse textures, on charcters models looks too plain, looks like plastic models, + jesus christ this game is clunkiest no,.1 at gameplay controlling charatcer, combat, + jesus the facial animations head movement clunky as hell, looks like ps1 animations bruh warhorse, get better instead of making copy pasta games, glad didn't buy this boring slow snailfest, fell asleep game , not giving any money to this no.1 clunkiest devs………..& kcd 2 has one of the worst ps2 plant flowers textures ever seen on modern gaming……of course optimization will be fine because visuals is not that impressive next gen looking its okayish ps4 graphics looking style, if you concentrate & look closely…..
"kcd 2 has one of the worst ps2 plant flowers textures ever seen on modern gaming"
They look like the same middleware Witcher 3 used.
STFU about Gay Tracing, Johnny Boiz. Had they slap it into the game, will it run like a charm as it is? Or it will require fortune-worth piece of hardware just to run at 30FPS on 1080p? Dumba$$.
but what do you win?
RTX 5080 is really a total disaster….Why did Nvidia's "leather jacket" CEO show slides that said the RTX 5070 was supposed to be on par with the RTX 4090, when not even the 5080 comes close to matching the 4090's performance? RIDICULOUS!
Because it was marketing BS. They meant with the use of Multi Frame Gen, something exclusive to the 5000 series. Nvidia's marketing for the performance of the 5000 series has been deceptive as heck.
Credit to AMD for providing NATIVE 4k and 1440p performance numbers during the RDNA 4 reveal. No upscaling, no frame gen numbers.
Meanwhile Ngreedia: "But…but….but….RTX 5070 is better than RTX 4090!"
they are ridiculous….what the hell was Jensen thinking?
I'm amazed anyone belived that claim from the start.
They literally called the max setting "EXPERIMENTAL" and you STILL chose it as the main course for your pointless benchmark. John. Get it through your skull FFS. Stop benchmarking (only) on max settings.