EA Sports has released the latest part of its soccer series, FIFA 23, on PC. Contrary to previous years, this time EA ported the current-gen console version of the game to the PC. Therefore, it’s time to benchmark it and see how it performs on the PC platform.
For this PC Performance Analysis, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3800Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX580, RX Vega 64, RX 6900XT, NVIDIA’s GTX980Ti, RTX 2080Ti and RTX 3080. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 516.94 and the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 22.10.1 drivers.
EA Sports has only added two graphics settings. The first setting is for Strand Based Hair, and the second is for rendering quality. And that’s it. Okay okay, you can also choose your resolution. Thankfully, the game supports uncapped framerates, so that’s at least something.
FIFA 23 does not feature any built-in benchmark tool. As such, we’ve benchmarked the in-engine cut-scenes you get before starting a match. For some reason, these in-engine cut-scenes are really heavy on PC. As such, consider our benchmarks as stress tests. Moreover, the following results do not reflect how the actual game plays. For instance, even our AMD Radeon RX580 was able to offer constant 60fps at 1080p/Ultra during gameplay. Similarly, our NVIDIA RTX3080 was pushing constant 120fps at 4K/Ultra.
We should also note that FIFA 23 locks you for 24 hours after making five hardware changes to your PC hardware. This is why our PC Performance Analysis was delayed, and why we won’t have any CPU benchmarks. Rest assured though that the game does not require high-end CPUs for hitting 60fps.
At 1080p/Ultra, our top three GPUs were able to run the demanding real-time cut-scenes with more than 60fps. Moreover, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 was noticeably faster than the NVIDIA GTX980Ti.
Curiously enough, the game underperforms on the RDNA 2 architecture. As we can see, the RTX2080Ti is trading blows with the more powerful RX 6900XT. Not only that, but in 4K/Ultra, the RTX 3080 is faster by 15fps. And although during gameplay the RX 6900XT can offer constant 60fps, its performance is nowhere close to the 120fps of the RTX3080. So, let’s hope that AMD will optimize its drivers for this new game.
Graphics-wise, FIFA 23 looks great. The crowd and the stadiums look amazing, as do most of the footballers. The lighting system is also noticeably better than the one used in the old-gen version. However, and despite EA Sports claims, footballers still have “robotic” and unnatural/unrealistic animations/movements. To be honest, I don’t believe this will be fixed in this generation as FIFA 22/23 will be the basis for the next/future games that will release exclusively on current-gen platforms.
All in all, FIFA 23’s cut-scenes are quite demanding on PC. Thankfully, though, performance during gameplay is significantly better, meaning that a wide range of PC configurations will be able to run the game smoothly. As said, an AMD Radeon RX580 can offer 60fps at 1080p/Ultra during gameplay. It would have been great if EA Sports had included some more graphics settings to tweak. Moreover, AMD will have to optimize its drivers as the game underperforms on the RDNA 2 architecture.
Enjoy!
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Something is wrong here. My 6900xt at 3440×1440 maxed out gets over 100 fps easy.
580 and 1060 are really starting to struggle even getting 30 fps in 3D games.
The article literally states 1080p60 maxed out is achievable during gameplay on the 580 tho.
Sure, but they can’t handle any cutscenes, which indicates the 3D engine is likely using dynamic resolution scaling during gameplay to bump up FPS.
No, it means everything is far away so you’re not using LOD 0, max hair tessellation and depth of field in gameplay like you it does in cutscenes.
No, there is a DYNAMIC_RESOLUTION flag in FIFA’s game files. That 1080p during gameplay is likely not actually 1080p.
It’s hard to explain such a bump in FPS compared to the cutscenes without dynamically scaling resolution.
As Cryio said, this is due to higher quality models and higher LODs. During gameplay you get native resolution and not dynamic.
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Ahem, 0 means disabled and 1 means enabled. By default this flag is disabled.
Well, regardless of the flag, the engine is capable of using dynamic scaling. Whether setting that to 0 actually prevents the engine from scaling is anyone’s guess.
Judging from the FPS numbers for the 3080 and 6900XT at 1080P and 1440P it looks like you’re running into CPU bottlenecks. It’s actually kind of appalling how this game performs considering what you’re using is still a powerful processor despite being almost 4 generations old now. These big companies (especially EA) seem to not care about optimizing much these days.
…Not that most of us here were going to get this game anyway because sportsball fandom is cringe and buying the yearly sportsball bibeo gaem is peak soy consoomerism.
A quick note cutscenes and replays are locked at 30fps on ps5 and XSX and regular gameplay is flawless 60fps so there is a reason those “close up” are much more demanding
Please continue doing the performance scaling per number of cores test, you were the only outlet providing this sort of info, which is usefull for people with old CPUs
We will. FIFA 23 was simply a pain in the a$$ as it was locking us out for 24 hours after five PC hardware changes.
No it’s not five PC hardware sadly
I have been tested ,I install game at night, launch the game, then my windows get updated and relaunch it ( The game wrote a new license for the system because Windows had been updated, and when Windows is updated, the Denuvo identifies it as a new system which is ****.)
And then i said lets try it in my labtop to see how game runs their, but i see game did not open! The game did not wrote a new license for my system because its limited to 2!!!
I went to search the internet to see what’s going on, found nothing every site and place wrote , its 5 pc per day ,then i contact EA support chat and they told me I have to wait for 24h to game allowed new active to me and they told me
“You can’t install FIFA on 5 pc per day, its not allowed ” I said but all Denuvo game allow 5 pc per day and in FIFA 23 User Agreement you mentioned it
they answered me “No there is not such things as 5 pc per day!!”
There were right! EA removed 5 pc per day in their User Agreement….
I wait for 24h then I launch game in my laptop for test it again, i go to
“C:ProgramDataElectronic ArtsEA Services”
Delete the License folder ,launch game, game launch
delete it again ,launch game, game DID not launch!!!
Delete again ,launch game , got error
“Too many computers have accessed this account’s version of EA Sports FIFA 23 Play Pro edition recently.”
So its only 2 PC per day for EA’s Denuvo game!
I go to test any Denuvo games on steam from other company, i used Dying Light 2 as example
launch game , delete License game 4 time and every time game launch
You can test it by your self , delete License folder in “C:ProgramDataElectronic ArtsEA Services” to see it’s only 2 pc per day
And sadly gaming website have not post news in this regard! which is bad, I hope you be first one that post this news
Its my game and i have right to my game launch in when and where i want ,
Imagine in morning your windows get updated and you launch game
then game release update in Afternoon and you launch game after update the game
and in night guest comes and you want to connect a laptop or PC to the TV but what happened? game did not launch because you already use your 2 time active limited
you have to wait for 24h and you miss playing your game with guest…
Its happened 1 time for me when i played FIFA 21
yeah this is right for years ea’s game active limited to 2 and no website post news about it…..
Hope you test it and post it to push EA to fix this problem , at last they allow 3 active per day….
Thanks for your work John (!)
Running at 60 fps (locked) with a 3090 4K, (had a free code with my ps5) it definitly runs better on my comp. Love this game for beer night with friend.
John, u can further tweak a few more settings in the ini file like disabling msaa and vsync.
Why still no Ray Tracing or GPU-breaking features? How are we to advance the graphical fidelity if they’re just minor tweaks?