Ubisoft has lifted the embargo for Far Cry 6’s streams and VODs (videos on demand). As such, we’ve decided to share the game’s built-in benchmark. However, and as you will see in the video, it appears that Far Cry 6 suffers from major CPU single-threaded issues.
For capturing this video, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3600Mhz and NVIDIA’s RTX 3080. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 472.12 driver. Additionally, we’ve included MSI Afterburner which will give you an idea of the in-game performance.
Now as you can see in the video, one CPU thread/core is being maxed out constantly. While the game can use some additional threads, it relies heavily on one single thread. What this basically means is that you will encounter major performance issues, even on high-end PC systems.
Far Cry 6 – PC Ray Tracing Benchmarks – 1080p/1440p/4K – NVIDIA RTX3080
Due to these single-threaded issues, we were bottlenecked by our CPU at both 1080p/Ultra and 1440p/Ultra. Yes, you read that right. At 1440p/Ultra we were CPU-bound (and not GPU-bound). And while an Intel Core i9 9900K can get constant 60fps, it’s impossible to even come close to a 120fps experience, even at 1080p.
Nick, who is currently reviewing the game, also encountered major CPU performance issues on his system. And while he is using an older Intel CPU (Intel Core i7 3930K), his CPU utilization was averaging around 40%.
“Maybe it’s just me, but Far Cry 6 doesn’t run as well as I’d hoped. I barely can maintain 60 FPS at 1440p on my older Intel CPU but new RTX 3070. That is on Medium settings only. This is unfortunate. I’ve got the latest nVidia drivers. I’m just surprised at how I can’t break 60 FPS on my machine…given that the game doesn’t look all that much better than Far Cry 5.
I was very shocked to see only 40% CPU utilization and even only 60% GPU utilization and I don’t think it has ever gone over this so far… I guess that explains why the FPS is so low…my hardware isn’t be utilized like it should be.”
We’ll talk more about the game’s overall performance in our upcoming PC Performance Analysis. Still, it’s really disappointing witnessing such CPU optimization issues. Far Cry 6 uses the DX12 API. Thus, we were hoping that this low-level API would help address its CPU single-threaded issues. However, that’s not the case here. Ultimately, and similarly to most previous Far Cry games, Far Cry 6 is still suffering from CPU single-threaded issues.
Stay tuned for more!
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dunia engine shows its age
Another title ruined by AMD’s sponsorship.
Bruh are you serious? How many years of Nvidia wh*re $hit tech have we had to endure? Stop the press bruh!.. AMD doesn’t have any proprietorial garbage like Nvidia does that gimp games. Well an AMD sponsored title means that their will be no Nvidia over the top tessellation to gimp both the competition & Nvidia themselves. I thought you knew better dude.
‘Bruh’, an AMD sponsored title means last gen graphics due to AMD being garbage with RT and no hardware AI. I’m sure I saw ‘hybrid’ raytracing listed as a feature for the Crayola munchers.
At least with Nvidia you get far more up to date graphics with the options to turn down/off features for those not on current gen.
What have you got against tessellation, which is many gens old now?
Even Nvidia’s “Ray Tracing” is hybrid. You really love that PR BS LOL
Care to explain?
Nvidia used tessellation in an abusive way in minor things just to tank older GPUs and AMD GPUs that in that moment didn’t handle it well, AMD needed to solve it limiting it form drivers or something like that. There was a video of two AMD engineers talking about it, on how the incredible amount of tessellation applied to a random rock or something like that in a sponsored Nvidia game.
Something similar with HairWorks where AMD solution works fantastic and Hairworks destroyed performance even in Nvidia GPUs, just to sell new GPUs, tanking the performance on even their own old GPUs.
Is business.
to me both are doing similar thing to sell more hardware. remember the very first game that get tessellation treatment? AMD sponsored tittle called Dirt 2. in that game tessellation pretty much do nothing to the graphic quality wise and yet running in DX11 end up being much slower due to tessellation being forced to on without any kind of toggle to turn it off in graphical setting. why AMD did not work with developer to implement DX11 where tessellation can be turn off completely to boost performance over DX9? because AMD has no reason to do it back then. the ability to control tessellation level in a game? AMD only coming out with it after they were beaten by nvidia in tessellation performance. nvidia getting the flak for what they did with tessellation but AMD probably will try to do something similar if nvidia did not beat them in tessellation performance.
in fact we still see both of them try to leverage their advantage over another right now. nvidia with RT and AMD with the amount of VRAM they had.
tessellation is AMD dream not nvidia.
“then again tesselation was pushed by nvidia since 2011, amd couldnt keep up, now its a industry standard.”
actually it was the other way around. the one that want tessellation to be part of direct x is AMD not nvidia. they have the hardware even in their older hardware such as HD4k series. but it can’t be used in games since it is not part of direct x spec. tessellation finally become part of DX with DX11. but the caveat is the hardware must be fully compliant with all DX11 spec which makes AMD old hardware unable to use the feature even if they had the hardware. there are several new graphical effect that being added to DX11 but in AMD case they try to highlight tessellation as one of the most important feature for DX11. that’s how we got Dirt 2 with forced tessellation in DX11. nvidia was late with fermi but when they finally arrive their 1st tessellation engine end up being better than AMD and nvidia try to leverage that.
“its that nvidias proprietary moves slow down adoption and are bad monopoly moves.”
being open does not guarantee adoption either. also even when the tech is more open and accessible even to competitor the fact the tech are coming from competitor makes them not want to work with it as well like what happen to Radeon PhysX.
https://www.techpowerup.com/64787/radeon-physx-creator-nvidia-offered-to-help-us-expected-more-from-amd
Actually true! All previous Far Cry titles were very well optimized, FC5 you get 60fps easy even with a gtx1060, now look at this sh*t a 3080 struggling with a game that looks last gen.
Another post from an blithering imbecile..
What title has been ruined by AMD’s sponsorship? Literally all AMD sponsored titles are as little CPU bound as possible, while ALL Nvidia sponsored titles barrage the CPU with tons of useless draw calls, lowering performance on both OEMs.
I think the biggest proof is going from Tomb Raider 2013, AMD sponsored, that almost doesn’t care what CPU you use, to Rise of the Tomb Raider, Nvidia sponsored, that is CPU bound, performance is lowered in the 2 open world hubs, needs DX12 to mostly fix the performance.
AFAIK the Nvidia sponsored games usually push their tech (PhysicsX -remember that?-, hairworks, DLSS and RTX etc), that you can disable in game.
Why would AMD want a game to overuse one thread? They often focus on having more cores for the price than Intel. More cores equals more threads!
Could be targeted gimping for Intel processors only.
That is why a lot of folks have been saying all along that DX12 is not some magic API that will solve single threaded issues or magically enhance performance
DX12 requires a lot of bespoke programming if you want to reap the benefits of its low level nature.
It was never advertised as some magic switch you flip by porting to DX12.
Every API requires a lot of of work
Low level APIs require more work, in DX11 a lot of things like memory management are handled by the GPU driver and the game developer doesn’t have to think about it.
It was advertised as magic switch flip. all of those benefits were just pure bulls**t.
True, although their Dunia engine has had threading issues ever since FC3.
There is plenty of DX11 games that have PROPER multi-threaded CPU support and usage
Nobody who understands DX12 or Vulkan ever said it would help single threaded performance. It was always a way to better handle parallelism, specifically large numbers of draw calls and the overhead associated with submitting them.
I look forward to your review detailing how little has changed between Far Cry 5 and Far Cry 6.
Hmm, Far Cry 5 ran pretty well for me. But apparently that used DX11.
“Far Cry 6 suffers from major CPU single-threaded issues” FC6 suffers from far more un-fixable problems…cpu problems are the least of UBI-Soy’s problems
FC6 is woke?
one of the resistance members is a literal drag queen gay queer dude.
yeah every game nowadays every high ranking important character in a leadership role is a woman.
By “woke” they mean it stars no-white characters. Feel free to ignore.
Hooboy. . . you had to edit that? Not enough parentheses I’m guessing. ?
every high ranking character is a strong woman, it has a queer drag queen in the game, come on.
please dont refer to corporatists as capitalists everything they do is funded by the state through subsidies.
Ah, you must prefer to play as the fascist?
Holy sh*t you’re crazy. This entire rant is just one long winded, condescending fart sniff of a comment.
If the dork I replied to is so consumed by current buzzwords that the best they can muster is “you play as antifaaaa” then I’m free to give them sh*t, and ask if they’d prefer to play as “fa”.
Also, “son”, Batista was a horrible b**tard that had to go. Che and Castro were awful too, in their own way. Cuba deserved better.
you are insane and cuba doesnt deserve better also trump won.
I don’t care, I just want those zionist establishment shills dead and burning in hell.
2 questions
1. what part of me stating a fact on one of the members of the resistance being a gay queer drag queen did you take issue with?
2. What is a fascist? Fascism was created by giovani gentile a socialist calling it the perfect form of socialism because socialism is a dead doctrine. George Orwell wrote an essay saying that the press calls everything they dont like fascist, people, organizations, political parties, ideas, policies, everything. So when it comes to far cry 6, OBVIOUSLY it takes place in cuba, OBVIOUSLY the leader is put in charge by the previous revolution that was backed by the soviet union, which is why there are so many soviet weapons in the game. So in what way is Anton a “fascist” but the resistance arent? They both run around killing people with guns and in the end of the day having a cure for cancer is more important than some idiots playing revolutionary.
So much of civil war history has been re written its not even funny. That being said entertainment sucks now due to the stupid subversions.
there are no centrists, just leftists driving at the speed limit, the media tells them what the “center” is and what line to hold, if they happen to go to far, then they are branded as “right wing” by the media for not going at the right speed limit.
Trump Lost, get over it, you fat, ugly virgin. Just k**l yourself 🙂
he lost so hard that he managed to get record high counties and beat obama but you see biden had magical mail in ballots giving him more votes than anyone ever after the counting stopped and started again with fake ballots.. No one believes this dude 80% of republicans think the election was stolen along with 30% of democrats.
In mariccoppa county alone without signature voting they found 57k fake ballots. Biden “won” arizone by 10k. The election is stolen.
you need to add Bolshevism & the multiple HOLODOMORS aka State-Induced Famines to both Russian & Ukrainian civilians from 1921 to 1947. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/history-unerring-redundant-unforgiving-shocking-parallels-1917-russian-bolshevik-revolution-2020-us-leftist-rebellion/
LGBTQ rights in a far cry game… this is absolutely embarrassing and pathetic. i don’t even want to play this now
Yes it is…… Talk about just appeasing the times to make a buck!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
KILL YOURSELF YOU FAT UGLY VIRGIN!
projection.
Cry more you ugly, fat virgin. No one will ever love you.
projection. Leftists are ugly depressed and lonely.
Did she(or they) have that kind of half cut hair style??
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d11d6f80d4eb32ddc1bbc66a828046ff5acedb4d285a8087c19019d0a1404ccb.jpg
speaking of which american krogan on odysee has a new video on bioshock, much subversion.
YOU FAT UGLY VIRGIN!
projection.
Looks like ADL has hired new interns.
Typical ubisoft and their outdated POS engines.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c94151020300a49fc86c61ae546821f6aba1d932366d4d5f3016e17cd1fb0274.png
i am so proud
This is Deadly Dude. Someone finally figured it out. Oh my God how come I didn’t notice this before.
This has been an issue with Dunia since FC3.. FFS Ubioft..
Ironic when Far Cry 2 was SUCH a well optimized game. It knew how to use more than 2 AND 4 threads back in 2008 and DX10 even ran better than DX9.
you say this but on my pc it crashes with bluescreens and i had to switch to use only one core in order for it to run, must have been the securom drm.
It’s been 13 years since release from today, we had at least 3 new OS versions, tons of WDDM updates, driver updates, it’s been a while.
My dual core Athlon II x2 4800+ also ran it pretty well as far as I remember it. It even alleviate my HD3200 integrated GPU performance and further improved when I upgrade it with discrete HD6850 in 2010
Yeah I member that, FC 3 had this issue but the game ran well , it seems FC6 will bare the full brunt of it..
shame
Does performance in 1440p and 1080p change if you mess with the Core Affinity in Task Manager? If this is a single thread maxed out issue, messing with the Core Affinity WILL FIX IT.
If performance doesn’t change, then game isn’t CPU bound and it doesn’t matter if 1 thread is maxed out.
Just tested. I have CPU 0 to 11 (12 total). With all 12 enabled by default I get 55 FPS in a scene. If I enable only CPU 0, the FPS tanks to 3 FPS, naturally. I need to enable CPU 0 to 6 to get back to 55 FPS. CPUs 7 to 11 have no impact on the FPS. (The CPU order doesn’t matter, I just went numerically to test.)
I’m not a CPU expert, so I could be wrong about what all this means. What I know for certain is other modern games run much, much better than Far Cry 6 on my machine, which makes me think Far Cry 6 isn’t well optimized and just tries a ‘brute force’ approach requiring powerful CPUs. I could be wrong. Let me know what you think.
It means the game isn’t bound by 1 thread getting close to 100% at least. It just needs more CPU power for maxed out settings AND RT.
Thank you for the response. I certainly didn’t turn on either of the Ray Tracing settings, FYI. Also, once I got my RTX 3070, most games more than doubled in FPS compared to my prior GTX 980Ti.
RDR2, for example, gets easily over 100 FPS. I just tested it. I get 120 FPS in a scene, with 65-70% CPU and 80% GPU. That beats FC6, which used only about 40% CPU and 60% GPU.
As far as CPU affinity in RDR2, even with only CPU 0, I get 20 FPS, as opposed to 3 FPS in FC6. With CPU 0 to 6 enabled I get 95 FPS. Enabling the last 5 CPUs gives me another 15% CPU usage and about 10-15 more FPS.
This is why I say Far Cry 6 isn’t utilizing my CPU like it should. Why does FC6 give no increase to FPS when using the remaining 5 of 12 CPUs? Anyway, just some information.
There is a BIG difference between a game having single-thread issues and a game using ONLY one CPU core/thread. Right now there isn’t any game that uses only one CPU core/thread (that’s also why there are major stuttering issues on dual-core system when Hyper-Threading is disabled).
A game with single-thread issues saturates one thread but can also use other threads for other functionalities. However, its performance will be limited by that maxed out thread/core.
When this happens, the developers need to rewrite their renderer in order to provide better multi-threading scaling. This exact thing happened with Forza Horizon 3. When it launched, it had CPU single-threaded issues ( https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/forza-horizon-3-pc-performance-analysis/ ). However, and contrary to Ubisoft, Playground Games increased the number of concurrent threads used by the render architecture via a performance patch which skyrocketed overall performance ( https://www.dsogaming.com/news/forza-horizon-3-pc-performance-patch-is-now-live-full-release-notes-revealed/ )
” I’m just surprised at how I can’t break 60 FPS on my machine…given that the game doesn’t look all that much better than Far Cry 5.”
Yeah but its really large right? I heard it is like just cause or wildlands.
1) modern streaming design should make this a non-issue. world size is really only an issue for total game size, loading times and VRAM demand. it should not affect moment to moment performance (except for maybe a hitch here and there).
2) those games are EMPTY as hell. who wants more big, empty worlds with nothing to do?
Maybe it is large compared to 5 but with games that have open worlds or large levels they just load up what is nearby. If you can see a large enough distance it will also load up a low detail version of distant areas.
I’m guessing HRT therapy messes with your coding skills
I guess I’ll have to play in 4k then.
Far Fry
Small fry
This issue was there in FC3 along with the mouse acceleration issues…good enough reason for me to never buy this trash.
ah yes i hated that mouse acceleration bs, in homefront the revolution it was worse.
Well far cry 3 is all you need to play really. The rest is the same, nothing has changed. In far cry 3 you had direction, the rest of the far cries after that, I have no idea where the hell to go or what’s happening. It’s just one giant cluster fuq.
Agreed.
sounds like your average Ubisoft game since a*s creed black flag.
Black flag is the most fun I have with a*s creed franchise along with the first (love the setting, its trully awesome recreation of Jerussallem) and the second. Want to love Unity more, its technically impressive but not much fun. While Origins, odyssey and Valhall is tad boring for my point of view
This mean Wokesoft is still recycling the old Far Cry 3 engine and it’s now starting to bottleneck heavily because it doesn’t properly support multi core CPUs.
2021…
I expected all kinds of problems with this game but single core CPU bottleneck was NOT on my list. LOL
what a train wreck. looks like 2015, runs like 2025, plays like 2010. neeeext.
Been asking this question for years…..yet here we are still. Stuck on a damn “THREAD” to this day.
I mean I’ve asked the question before, but I guess I’ll ask again… “Are we coding for DX9 still somewhere?!?!” Because there should be today capability to smash cores/threads of a CPU through an API.
Hell Vulcan gets it right most of the time. Utilizing quite a bit of my 3960X in most games written on it.
Hard pass on this one until it is patched to death I guess….
Business as usual for Ubisoft codemonkeys… but then you have the dumbasses in forums blowing devs and dismissing concerns from customers “Lazy dev rhetoric is not allowed” they say… You pay 100 USD for the special editions of these games, end up working properly a year down the line (if ever…) and you cannot complain… GTFO with that sh*t. These lazy f*cks have been having the same issues since the seventh generation of consoles. They should rename their studio CPU0=100%
As if programmers were the only folks working hard… try working at the docks, at a steel mill or as a police officer… Maybe less zipping Mokachinnos, and more QA guys…
Why does Ubisoft continue to use the Dunia engine for all FarCry games? It is an old engine that was based on original CryEngine and has just been modified with each new FC game. Ubisoft also have the AnvilNext engine which they use for most of their other titles like Watch Dogs Legion and AC Valhalla. Watch Dogs Legion performs decently for an open world title, so why don’t Ubisoft switch to this engine for Far Cry titles? Ever since FC5, there always seems to be CPU issues.
So the same problem as with FC 3 / 4 / 5 there are many fixes for it, did you already tried the Far Cry Performance trick ?
https://youtu.be/am8HqZ1Krnw
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4b2e6fb53d2e70b92dfaa27948ff95130be637c8a65f070230a4954eb478f240.jpg This has been an issue with all Ubisoft games… but it’s ok.. we can
forgive them guys because “Ubisoft is proudly made up of people from 27
different genders, religions, ethnicitys and backgrounds”.
Male, female and 25 mental disorders?
truth!
You dont even know what a mental disorder is?
Since you seem like an ignorant bigot, let me inform you.
Disorder – An illness that disrupts normal physical or mental functions. Oxford English Dictionary. A disorder could be defined as a set of problems, which result in causing significant difficulty, distress, impairment and/or suffering in a person’s daily life.
Gender identity whichis affected by your genes isnt a mental disorder, it’s a fact that it’s in a spectrum and you hating is just you loving to hate people different than you , get over it or return to your 19th century and stay ignorant.
“Gender identity whichis affected by your genes”
That’s the part where you show you have mental and intelectual disorders. And since you wouldn’t be able to understand what I just wrote, I said you’re dumb and ignorant.
Chromosomes DEFINES gender, making us male (XY) or female (XX). So if one the mentally handicaped people that you follow around could show me an article peer reviwed about another combination of chromosomes to define some extra gender, I’ll be glad to change my mind, cause that’s what science is about, constant discovery and eventually change of patterns.
But, there’s one thing science doesn’t give a fvck about, and that’s your moronic feelings. It doesn’t care if you failed to understand the reality and is now sad because of it. For science, you can take your imaginary genders and shove’em up your ar53!
I’ve seen some sites that claim there are now 72 recognized genders.
The dictionary defines gender as “either of the two sexes (male and female),especially when considered with reference to social and cultural
differences rather than biological ones’.
all their games are made primarily in canada and france.
Let’s be real here. This is the LEAST of this game’s problems, by a country mile.
The comments on here….. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Whooo no kidding, what a sh*t show.. I knew scrolling down and seeing 126 comments on an article about a Ubisoft game, especially on this wesbite, I would regret it. But damn.
It doesn’t matter, this game is worth…
Pirating!
Kinda expected this from UbiTrash. Will wait for them to patch out these issues if they can
dunia engine was always single threaded
Ubisoft never learns…
all far cry:s had stutter and lags besides fc3
I got 5900x and 3090 with 64GB ram, i will come back to you in a few days and post my benchmark video as i want to see how amd fares here.
“Maybe it’s just me, but Far Cry 6 doesn’t run as well as I’d hoped”
– guy running the game on a 10 year old Sandy Bridge CPU
This turd just got released ? lol i thought it came out last year.
Using the same engine iteration since Far Cry 2 without much time given to the developer to fully develop more modern one due to that ‘minimal investment and high expectation to please stakeholder’ mindset trully hurt this game. Basically this franchise since FC3 suffer that archaic one thread hurt them all disease.
It’s pretty disappointing that these days most people have multi-coreCPUs and Ubisoft can’t figure out how to use the cores and the threads.
Agree with this issue. Whatever I do I cannot get my average frame rates above 95FPS on a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with Ryzen 5800 and RTX 3070. Dropping the resolution from 1440p to 1080p does nothing except of worsening the image quality. Also tried FSR Performance mode not improving FPS.
Dropping the preset Quality from Ultra To medium yields a 18% improvement. My avg FPS for Ultra is 77 and for Medium is 90.
I buy this game after read this article about blurry texture with hd texture pack on 3080 only happens if you play in 4K. I play in 1440p and I assure you that after 10 minutes gameplay the textures become horrible, this on Supremos, clothes, vehicle speedometer, vegetation, road etc.