The review embargo for God of War has just been lifted and we can finally share our first tech thoughts about this highly anticipated PC release. God of War supports both NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR. As such, we’ve decided to share first our DLSS/FSR benchmarks.
For these benchmarks, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3800Mhz and NVIDIA’s RTX 3080. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 497.29 driver.
God of War does not feature any built-in benchmark tool. Therefore, we’ve benchmarked one of the opening areas. Our benchmark scene is when Kratos and Atreus begin hunting a deer. This area features a lot of volumetric effects, and appeared to be stressing the GPU more than all the previous scenes.
Below you can find some comparison screenshots between Native 4K (left), NVIDIA DLSS Quality (middle) and AMD FSR (right). God of War uses numerous post-processing effects, and has a really soft image (even in native resolution). As such, DLSS can look sharper than native 4K, whereas FSR can look almost as good as native 4K.
NVIDIA DLSS appears to be sharper than AMD FSR, and performed a bit better on our RTX3080. However, we did notice some weird artifacts with DLSS (that weren’t present in both native resolution and FSR). For instance, take a look at the lantern chain at the end of our video. As you can see, there is more aliasing to it, and there is major shimmering when moving the camera. This shimmering issue reminded us of a similar issue we witnessed in Call of Duty: Vanguard. We’ve already informed NVIDIA about it, so here is hoping that the green team will be able to resolve it via a future DLSS version.
Due to these shimmering issues, we suggest running the game in native resolution (and using a sharpening filter). For those wondering, our RTX3080 was able to run the game with constant 60fps on High settings in native 4K (setting above the Original/PS4 settings). Alternatively, you can use FSR alongside a sharpening filter. We’d normally suggest using DLSS as it’s sharper than both native res and FSR. However, these shimmering issues can be really distracting, even in Quality Mode.
Performance-wise, DLSS offers a 20-25% performance improvement. This is lower than what we’ve seen in other games. Still, via both DLSS and FSR, our RTX3080 was able to run the game in 4K/Ultra with constant 60fps. Moreover, and surprisingly enough, AMD FSR is almost as fast as NVIDIA DLSS.
Our PC Performance Analysis (in which we’ll be benchmarking more GPUs from both NVIDIA and AMD) will go live later this week, so stay tuned for more!
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And here we have to happiest guy in Universe. Oh man how miserable life Mr Latex must have. Never ever anything possitive from him!
Get a life buddy. Start with a smile when waken up. You might be supprised how you will feel!
He’s definitely a kid with abandonment issues seeking attention on the internet. And he probably thinks that the way he talks is being a man, but acts and talks like a lady when in public. Little does he know that he just comes out as retarded.
LOL
Had to search the web for menorah.
Nice one there.
Yep it’s sad to see really. He must be in a world of pain!
Feel sorry for him, and he cant see how pathetic he sound!
Jew? hahahahha… oh man, you’re such a moron.
I remember when you got triggered that a bunch of soy weaklings like you made a few threads on kia2. And here we have, you being nearly universally disliked by everyone. And in almost all posts you get a dislike.
Hey buddy, I send you some love. Remember tomorrow – start that day with some fresh air and a Smile before hitting that screen, shall we!
Im sure it will do you good. Going around this angry will bury you sooner or later!
I don’t care abot the FPS i care about the quality of the FPS
from what I see its a perfect smooth experience no stuttering
Did you experience any stuttering later on the game??
Smooth gameplay throughout our benchmark scenes so far
thanks PRE-ORDER ON
Awesome and all Love to Sony – or should I say: All love they Will get from our pockets. Finaly they get it > Pc is a thing 😀
And a Salute that they dont use that POS abomination Denuvo!
For this they get my respect and im willing to pay for it!
Also thank you for getting slide show on screenshots working again!
I remember when a 1080 ti could turn any 1080p30 ps4 game into a 4k60 experience. Times have changed.
They’re trying to sell us the most cards they can, before the streaming takes over.
Braindead comment.
All he says are total BS!
Must be something really wrong with him!
Braindead comment? That is an understatement with all latex’s comments! haha
I can’t even read more than half of it. And I universally downvote his posts because I always assume he has nothing of value being said. And quite frankly, I don’t think I have seen anything of value coming out of him.
He is a sad, sad person…
Yeah he is a sad beying!
Hope he get some help, he needs it!
You are right there is never any value from his total nonsense. Pure BS. All this word vomiting. He surely is disturbed!
I mean It’s really f*king funny. I’m pretty sure he’s just trolling around. He plays all the games he sh*ts on constantly.
Oh no… he is not acting ironically, he is doing all of this unironically. He is that braindead!
He is one of those idi*ts who rag about games not catering to him all the time, and when there is a rare game he likes(I think he might not even be a gamer) instead of telling the developer “make more” by paying for it, he pirates it.
nicely said
Pretty impressive showing from AMD.
The results are very close to native and only slightly worse than DLSS, while offering very similar performance gains.
Good to see some competition in the software GPU perk space too, NVIDIA has been dominating it for a long time.
Pretty impressive showing from AMD.
The results are very close to native and only slightly worse than DLSS, while offering very similar performance gains.
Good to see some competition in the software GPU perk space too, NVIDIA has been dominating it for a long time.
Yep, hopefully AMD will keep this up, if so I would go back to them for a GPU.
I personally like the underdog also keeps competition healthy. Hopefully their RDNA 3 cards can offer better competition in ray tracing performance.
Indeed, competition is good for us and AMD have proven their-selves again recently with their CPU’s, I’m always rooting for AMD.
DLSS is based on externalized processing on supercomputers to train and improve its AI model.
Only specific games benefit of it, depending on Nvidia will.
So it’s a scam.
From what I understood FSR doesn’t rely on externalized computing.
So, it is not a scam.
“From what I understood”
I think we see the problem…
After a quick check on AMD page :
“FidelityFX Super Resolution is a spatial upscaling technique, which generates a “super resolution” image from every input frame. In other words, it does not rely on history buffers or motion vectors. Neither does it require any per-game training.”
I think Robert Sharp is not so sharp …
The lighting is awful, same issue with TLoU2, it’s like everything is being displayed on a bad LCD screen.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e6589b8f20e7bd52dedd6cb3ce29553d53a4454528fc3b668a4a5e882e36aa57.jpg
what do you mean ?
Lighting looks fantastic in that screenshot, and in TLOU2 in general.
It’s because they aren’t playing with a good display.
The game looks absolutely amazing on my tv.
I get what you mean, the everything seems like gamma is too high, the blacks are nowhere near black. But I wouldn’t call it terrible.
Exactly, but it’s that bad I’d argue it’s terrible.
Not on an OLED…
There is probably a point light on characters in some scenes and those usually look bad in modern games but other than that this game is stunning at 4k ultra… At least it is on my LG C1.
Only 400€ for 2160c and 60fps, the PS5.
Nobody here wants to know about this SHITStation 5!!!
You can’t afford one, like you can’t afford PC games, pirate !
if there is 400 euros PS5 in my country, all of gamer in my country probably gonna be grabbed it once it available, the reality is its always priced twice of that minimum (after conversion) even on official distributor
Well, I didn’t like this game either, but you’re on a whole new level of triggered, innit?
Remember, it’s just a game. If you find it offensive in any way, it’s not a mere programs fault, but your own agenda that you need to push in everything you try and consume.
That being said, remember that I fully support your decisions, cause you’re the only one getting rekt by them anyway.
;D
Holy hell lmao how is every one of your comments just a ridiculous word vomit of random insults.
It’s honestly impressive.
I sincerely hope you find happiness in the future.
He must be in pain. He should seek help. One highly disturbed persson!
You’re gonna grow up one day and realize how silly you sound.
Also why do you assume everything is related to Jewish people lmao. What did they ever do to you.
All his insults towards every game and people probably come from him owning an Radeon RX 560 and living in his mother’s basement.
He probably blames his unemployment on Jews, instead of blaming on him being utterly incompetent in doing anything(or his inbreeding genes).
I upvoted him for positive reassurance. This level of stupidity is on a level that I find hilarious. I want more! lol
Can someone translate this?
Tbh this is dogshit performance, as expected ever since the requirements leaked. Unless ultra is extremely demanding comparative to the base PS4 settings, this runs like 20% worse than either HZD or Days Gone, and much much worse than Death Stranding.
You need a team of psychiatrists…
Incels gotta incel.
Does being a pathetic douche really compensate for your forever alone status? Is it helping?
The game runs like sh*t.
i5-9400, RTX 2080,16GB RAM, SSD and game has problems holding steady and constant 60fps in 1080p!Frequent stutters and drops to ~40’s
The graphics menu lacks a lot of options, and controls on keyboard and mouse are not solid.
To fix that stupid stutter enabling DLSS fixes the problem but then the resolution drops very hard on balanced.
Shame about the aliasing/shimmering in DLSS mode. Thanks for the write-up.
I’ve noticed some weird flickering, mostly on ground level when using DLSS, it does not seem to be present with FSR. have you noticed that too?
Thanks
DLSS has 1 major flaw in God of War (and RDR2) and that’s the Sharpening filter.
If you enable DLSS then slowly pan the camera you can see the entire image brighten then dim when you stop.
RDR2 thankfully had a sharpening slider so if you dropped it to 0 it solved the issue and the game looked no different.
Hopefully they add that option to God of War.
Lastly if TAA didn’t cause some blur then it would look better than DLSS 4k. So maybe DLAA will solve that because some of us who spend way too much on hardware can play the game at 4k ultra above 60fps without DLSS.