Sony has just released God of War: Ragnarok on PC. The game supports from the get-go all the available PC upscaling techs. As such, you can use Intel XeSS 1.3, AMD FSR 3.1 and NVIDIA DLSS 3. Thus, we’ve decided to benchmark and compare them.
For these first benchmarks, we used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, and NVIDIA’s RTX 4090. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, and the GeForce 561.09 driver. Moreover, we’ve disabled the second CCD on our 7950X3D.
God of War: Ragnarok does not have a built-in benchmark tool. So, for our tests, we’ve used this cave area. This appeared to be the most taxing one we could find early in the game. As such, it should give us a pretty good idea of how the rest of the game runs.
Let’s start with some comparisons. Native 4K is on the left, AMD FSR 3.1 is in the middle, and NVIDIA DLSS 3 is on the right. FSR 3.1 looks noticeably blurrier than Native 4K, whereas DLSS 3 comes close to it. Also, contrary to some other recent titles, DLSS 3 looks sharper than FSR 3.1. Not only that but DLSS 3 does a better job at eliminating jaggies than FSR 3.1.
To its credit, AMD FSR 3.1 does not suffer from any ghosting issues on particles. This is huge as this was one of my biggest issues with FSR in Ghost of Tsushima and Frostpunk 2. It also appears to be running faster than Intel XeSS 1.3.
So, my recommendation is DLAA if you own a high-end GPU like the RTX 4090. 4K DLAA looks better than Native 4K. Then, if you own a weaker RTX GPU, you can enable DLSS 3 as you won’t notice the blurrier graphics (we had to use ICAT and zoom in to get our results). And, if you don’t have an RTX, you can go ahead and enable FSR 3.1.
Sadly, DLSS 3 Frame Generation does not appear to be working on the launch version. At the end of the video below, you can see that we don’t get any performance increase at all when we enable DLSS 3 FG. As soon as we enable AMD FSR 3.1 Frame Generation, though, we get a noticeable 30fps increase. So, right now, AMD FSR 3.1 FG works whereas NVIDIA DLSS 3 FG does not work. [UPDATE: The latest patch has fixed this issue and DLSS 3 FG now works]
At Native 4K/Max Settings, God of War: Ragnarok ran with a minimum of 96fps and an average of 100fps on the NVIDIA RTX 4090. NVIDIA DLSS 3 Quality Super Resolution and AMD FSR 3.1 Quality Super Resolution seem to offer a similar performance boost. On the other hand, Intel XeSS Quality seemed slower than both of them.
Our PC Performance Analysis for God of War: Ragnarok will go live later this week. So, stay tuned for more!
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Sadly, DLSS 3 Frame Generation does not appear to be working on the launch version
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I turned it on and it boosted my framerate in the starting area by about 70%, so doesn't seem to be universally broken.
It works, but you need to restart game after enabling it.
I have csrinru open in front of my face and I just can't find a reason to pirate this game. Playing this makes me depressed because I feel like I'm wasting my life.
Thinking about the fact that some people pay to play a game like this makes me mad.
What an odd reply overall
This is on par with most comments I leave on this site
You must be new here …….
Quite the opposite.
what he say? i have that dmb fker blocked whoever he is. Which proves it judging by your comment lol
Since this game comes with FSR 3.1, can you enable FSR3 frame gen with DLSS now?
Yeap, you can use FSR 3.1 Frame Generation with DLSS, XeSS, or at Native resolution
We need a fix for the 3, 4, 6 GB gpu's. A PS4 game should work very good even with a card old as a GTX 1060 3 GB.
Update: Check Nexus mods. A bypass is now available and it's working. Game is performing well so far on a Gtx 1060 3 Gb. As it should.
When PS4 launched the top GPU cards back then were GTX700 series,making PS4 have some GTX600 series in power,only later in 2016,november when PS4Pro launched,Nvidia had GTX1000 series.
So a GTX 1060,on paper is better than a PS4Pro(as many stated back in the day,by making diverse PC builds at 500$,with a gtx 1060 as ps4pro killers).
The reality is different,a 2013 pc Build with let's say gtx770 or a 2015 build with a gtx1060 in 2024 is kinda old.
With RTX5000 series,slowly rtx2000 series will become the new gtx900/gtx1000.
Since PS4 launched,there are, until present,2 console generations with 1 refresh vs 6 generations for GPU,variations for gpu's are at least 4/gpu gen(RTX2060,2070,2080,etc) PS4(2013),Ps4Pro(2016),Ps5(2020) vs PC GTX 700,900,1000 series,RTX2000,RTX3000,RTX4000.
I'm not a hater like most people here, I appreciate the history lesson but I didn't need it. I'm well aware about my pc and pc/console gaming in general. And since you are well informed as well you probably know that:
PS4 = Gtx 750 TI more or less.
Gtx 750 TI < Gtx 1060.
PS4 Cpu 1.6 GHz < my old I7 4790k 3.6 Ghz.
Etc, etc, etc.
My point is: the game should run good on my old PC and flawless with even a better PC. The 6 Gb Vram limit is a marketing trick in order to force the consumer to buy new products. Beyond disgusting.
As always.
Update: Check Nexus mods. A bypass is now available and it's working. Game is performing well so far on a Gtx 1060 3 Gb. As it should.
Note that the predecessor used DX11, while this one switched to DX12.
Unfortunately, that usually means inflated VRAM requirements, because with DX12 game developers themselves are responsible for handling that, and most of them suck at it…
You're right,i also told you why they don't optimize games for older hardware same as for PS4,even when PC parts exceed the power of a PS4.
Because,nvidia,amd(less because they scored contracts with both Sony and Microsoft), Intel more than Amd ,need to sell hardware,thats how they are relevant/make profit.
If all games get optimized,who buys the more perfomant ones,at such scale?…for gamers/games only.
PS4P is a 7970 / 380X, but in GCN4 variant (Polaris) with some stuff from GCN5 (Vega). Way slower than a 1060 / 580
Why stop there? Let people play on they 128MB VGA's lmao
Should work and will work are 2 different things my friend. If you remember, over these consoles started getting ALL that unified RAM the devs were just dumping everything into vram. So a card having 3GB would always have problems. C'mon man, you know they aren't gonna go back and recode/optimize a damn thing for anyone's sake. You know that's not what they do.
The also crazy truth, not a lot of PC's have that v little vram, so they won't care much to cater to what you have. You remember, eat back when shadow of Mordor was released? It was the first game to consume up 9 GB's of VRAM. But like I always say, if a game is released on 9/19/2024, my release day is 9/19/2025 and for obvious reasons.
Everytime I see this version of Kratos I wanna puke. So disrespectful to the character. The worse part is, I had this exact vision visiting other parts of the world and dealing with the norse gods. But it was suppose to do with a brown man THAT HE WAS, not this zangief looking dude. Why is no one talking about this race swap.
It's norse not nurse. What are you, dense? Fk the brown man, kratos is ours, he's greek re malaka.
Zangief is german, Kratos meaning a city a state, is GREEK! All the references in the games since 1 are to greek gods, not african american brown gods.
History check, the west fks up everything. Don't be the sheep that eats their crap.
When the fuq did I say anything about African Americans or Black, something is fuqin wrong with you. You are a God damn imbecile! Kratos was not a white man you stupid FUQ, that doesn't mean i think he's African American. You really are a stupid Fuq aren't you? and to think I tried being civil with you. What a DUMB FUQ!
You're a fking idiot. You said brown you dense matherfker. Brown is in the same vicinity. NOT all blacks are black. Are we really going back to he said she said so you can win your little troll medal? Your parents must've dropped you when you were a kid or fed you cvm out of a chalice. There's no other explanation.
You were never civil that's why it got to this point. But by judging your shortsighted comments with other users it just proves my point. You're arguing with everyone. They all think you're a dmb cnt. Even the comment section bellow this one proves my point. That's the kind of imbecile you are! At this point I would just delete my account and steer clear if I were you.
I'll just block you. You're a dche nuzzle.
This conversation is over.
spoken like a dumb idiot!
This is why I can't take y'all seriously. As soon as it's a race swap where the original race is white y'all flood the comment section with hate and vitriol, which YOU SHOULD and I have no problem with that. But as soon as it's the other way around, I'm a dumb idiot! Not one of y'all have the same energy for this obvious Fuqin race swap and I've watched and waited, then nothing. The race part isn't the only problem, that is CLEARLY NOT Kratos or have anything remotely to do with the character but you suck it up like a long KOCK and defend it. One of the worse fuqin games when it comes to being faithful to a character. "Spoken like a dumb idiot" – Great argument by the way.
yeah yeah bite us Felicia lmao. Go cry in a corner you dmb fk.
bro there's no reasoning with this idiot. I tried, something got into this dumb cksucker this past week, picking fights with everyone. His facts are wrong, his english is horrendous, and don't get me started with his language. He's a woke trnny imbecile.
Reading this game has a rather considerable number of technical issues. Will definitely be a hard pass for a few months while they iron things out.
idk doesn't look worth the trouble tbh and I read that some people get rando psn login popups, so of course the free version is better just for that like EDF6 w no epig login req. I checking out on these 150gb games they're bloated and overdone, so much choices now it's great.
btw looks like jon missed nintendont suing palworld?
Pretty well optimized It's rare these days