Microsoft has just released the latest part in its Halo series, Halo Infinite. Powered by the Slipspace Engine, it’s time now 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 3600Mhz, 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 497.09 and the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 21.12.1 drivers.
343 Industries has added a lot of graphics settings to tweak. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Textures, Geometry, Shadows, Ambient Occlusion, Reflections and more. The game also offers a FOV slider. And while it comes with a Resolution Scaling option, it does not support AMD’s FSR or NVIDIA’s DLSS. Now we should note that this is an AMD-sponsored game, so we don’t really expect 343 Industries to add support for DLSS.
Halo Infinite does not feature any built-in benchmark tool. As such, we’ve decided to benchmark the first open-world area you encounter. Contrary to the first two main missions, the open-world area appears to be more demanding on both CPU and GPU. Therefore, it can give you a better idea of how the game will run (especially in its later – and perhaps more demanding – areas).
In order to find out how the game scales on multiple CPU threads, we simulated a dual-core, a quad-core and a hexa-core CPU. Halo Infinite requires at least a modern-day quad-core CPU. Without Hyper-Threading, our simulated dual-core system was simply unable to offer a playable gaming experience due to severe stuttering issues. However, and even when we enabled Hyper-Threading, there were still some occasional stutters.
We should also note some really… bizarre CPU behaviour. As you can see in the first screenshot, the game appears to be using all eight cores of our Intel i9 9900K. However, when we simulated a hexa-core CPU, we did not experience any performance hit. Hell, even our quad-core system was close to the performance of our octa-core system. We don’t really know what is going on here and why the game is using all these threads when there isn’t any performance benefit at all. And yes, we didn’t have any other program running in the background.
While Halo Infinite does not seem to be demanding a high-end CPU, it certainly does require a powerful GPU. At 1080p/Ultra, the only GPUs that were able to run the game smoothly were the RTX2080Ti, RTX3080 and RX 6900XT. Performance on both the AMD Radeon RX 580 and the NVIDIA GTX980Ti was awful. Similarly, the game performed horribly on the AMD Vega 64 at Ultra settings. When we lowered our settings to Medium, we were able to get close to 60fps at 1080p on the Vega 64. However, the NVIDIA GTX980Ti could barely hit 50fps on Low settings. It seems that Halo Infinite was not optimized at all for older generation GPUs.
At 1440p/Ultra, the only GPUs that were able to run the game with constant 60fps were, once again, our top three GPUs. As for 4K/Ultra, the only GPU that was able to offer a constant 60fps experience was the AMD Radeon RX 6900XT. NVIDIA’s RTX3080 was frequently dropping to 57fps. Thankfully, though, those with G-Sync monitors will be able to enjoy the game, even with these framerate drops.
Graphics-wise, Halo Infinite looks great. 343 Industries has used a lot of high-resolution textures, and the game comes with a great lighting system. Thankfully, and contrary to other games, there aren’t annoying pop-ups right in front of you. This does not mean of course that you won’t notice any pop-ins of shadows or objects. However, things are not as awful as in some of the latest games like ICARUS or Guardians of the Galaxy.
Unfortunately, though, there are numerous technical issues with Halo Infinite. The cut-scenes, for instance, feel jittery/stuttery even at high framerates. For some weird reason, some animations are also locked at 30fps. Furthermore, the game on NVIDIA’s latest GPUs appears to be struggling right now. Whether performance will increase via future drivers remains to be seen.
All in all, Halo Infinite is a mixed bag. While this is not one of the most optimized PC games of 2021, it’s also certainly not one of the worst optimized PC games of 2021. It’s somewhere in the middle. The game can look great on the PC and runs great on the latest AMD GPUs. However, there is definitely room for improvement here, especially on NVIDIA’s hardware and on older-generation GPUs. Oh, and make sure to disable Screen Shake as it’s locked at 30fps, making the game feel stuttery when running.
Enjoy!
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Don’t bother with this until next year.
Too many “excluded” features, mixed performance, exploitative progression & Battle Pass System, absolutely busted aim assist, lack of standard MP playlist and etc.
The way I see it Halo Infinite is in Early Access.
lol, early access. you sound like an entitled brat that cant aim and takes it out on the game instead of getting better. i find the aiming just fine and constantly dominate. so i guess its you. if you want a real early access title, look at battlefield
Oi mate, it’s free, so why not try it right now?
Not sure it is worth booting a Win 10 to play it.
It doesn’t!
Thanks for the tip.
Played a little bit last night and the game is still that boring cr4p we already know. But I might not be the best person to tell you this, I was never a fan of the series.
lol, its positive reviews all around and you pick one of the 3 mixed ones because you’re mad and have inherent hate for the franchise haha, being so toxic must be miserable
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Dafuq is this?!
Ever heard of jews?
You must be new here. This lad is a pro whiner.
Always wondered if anyone really reads this shlt.
LOL
imagine typing a whole deranged book like this over a video game you don’t even own.
take your meds
I’ve never seen your username here or maybe I have and you’re not that active here? regardless, if it helps you to get a perspective on what type of people you’re dealing with here, these guys come from a site called oneangrygamer which was basically 4chan v2.0, a simple search would tell you plenty about that.
I’ve seen them denying holocaust, calling moon landing fake, saying that education is woke, earth is flat and a bunch of other funny sh*t.
I legitimately think that some of them are asylum escapees.
Real gamers gets paid to shill for the game.
Lol, shills are on full damage control mode it seems.
Gonna test this shlt now, just need to finish my small 2kg plate of bbq first.
Later I’ll come back to say how I like it, cause my opinion is the best and only acceptable opinion. Cheers!
You should write a book on how to whine all over the internet.
Wouldn’t sell a single copy, tho.
You know what’s worse than whining on the internet? whining about people whining on the internet.
So… You’re complaining about a complainer?
Two can play this game, mate.
Just stating facts, bruh.
Lmao this clown really put a picture of one of the black characters as evidence of… something?
If y’all are new to this site, this is our resident autist. He provides continual entertainment via his deranged rants non-stop. It’s really quite funny.
I’m not even Jewish but it’s hilarious seeing u struggle with the fact that y’all lost the war.
Enjoy the copium sulfate.
I didn’t call you racist.
I called you an autist lmfao.
Exhibit A:
lmfaooo f*king schizoposter
That’s not even the same game.
Is it hard trying to be this stupid?
“That’s not even the same game.”
That’s precisely the point, imbecile. Ugly black women everywhere in media. He already posted the ugly black sh3male from Halo, but if that’s your kink, go for it.
So not only are you not self aware, you struggle with reading comprehension too?
GaytexBeatsStupidity posted those pics regarding Halo. Why post something irrelevant?
“GaytexBeatsStupidity posted those pics regarding Halo.”
No, he posted the actual ugly black “female” in halo and you replied “hOwS tHaT reLeVAnt?” Why not just say you are aroused by that stuff?
“GaytexBeatsStupidity posted those pics regarding Halo.”
No, he posted the actual ugly black “female” in halo and you replied “hOwS tHaT reLeVAnt?” Why not just say you are ghey and love ugly black woman?
Don’t bother replying back, they’ll drag you as low as they are. just a single black character is enough to trigger the living fck out of them.
I don’t know if you talked to people like these guys in real life or not but they usually have some serious issues in their lives, no point arguing.
Honestly, you’re right. It’s inspiring seeing how much you’ve changed.
I mainly troll back because it’s funny but also because I like this website and the ridiculously anti-Semitic people here just drive better users away.
“anti-Semitic people here just drive better users away.”
Lol, i wish my anti semitism would drive the jews away from this site, instead they keep replying to my posts for days…
Try not being a moron, it’ll help with that issue considerably.
Why so biased toward jews? What’s your ethnicity?
Lmfao.
I’m not “biased towards jews” I’m biased against being an outright anti-Semite. Because generalizations and stereotypes just drive people apart.
And no way I’m saying my ethnicity on this site, that would just give rise to even more racist sh*t.
“I’m biased against being an outright anti-Semite.”
lol, i can’t even dislike Israeli racial apartheid policies without being called antisemite. So yeah, you are biased towards jews worst behaviour, which makes you quite suspect, haha.
The fact that you can’t understand that I’m talking about the comment section in general (Like that keyboard warrior Amadeus who says stuff like “Zip it jew, you’re going to the ovens”) is exactly the lack of nuance I was criticizing you for.
“Makes you suspect” lmao get your head out of your as*, this is a gaming news website, it’s not a crime to think stereotypes of jewish people is wrong, and the fact that you’re even talking about jews along with the other mongoloids on this site is pretty revealing.
I didn’t mention your comments about israel at all, I couldn’t care less about that stuff. Nobody cares what you think of their racial apartheid.
This is a gaming website, I have no idea why you all like to talk about completely unrelated nonsense.
I’ve come to realize I’m talking with people who are probably edgy teenagers without good parental figures though, so I’ll leave it at that. I hope you grow up one day.
“The fact that you can’t understand that I’m talking about the comment section in general (Like that keyboard warrior Amadeus who says stuff like “Zip it jew, you’re going to the ovens”) is exactly the lack of nuance I was criticizing you for.”
So you are criticizing me for comments made by others? This is what you said about me earlier: “Try not being a moron, it’ll help with that issue considerably.”
“it’s not a crime to think stereotypes of jewish people is wrong, and the fact that you’re even talking about jews along with the other mongoloids on this site is pretty revealing.”
Stereotypes exist for a reason, you where also talking about jews, so my reply is on topic.
“I didn’t mention your comments about israel at all, I couldn’t care less about that stuff. Nobody cares what you think of their racial apartheid.”
Except you did, you where talking about anti-semitism, remember? Their rogue apartheid state got every thing to do with anti semetism. Also the fact that you don’t care about their crimes is no surprise at all.
Aren’t you the ones focusing too much on (defending)ugly black shemales? There was plenty of complaints on graphics, level design, copy pasted levels, multiplayer pay2win, etc, the trash culture sorrounding it is just the icing on the crap cake.
“Lmao this clown really put a picture of one of the black characters as evidence of… something?”
Why not? Do you think they put an ugly black sh3male character for no reason at all? Just because? Are you that stupid?
Seethe
Dilate
There appears to be a weird cpu bug, if you don’t set your min and max fps in the settings the cpu load will be very high with nothing really going on. I locked the fps to 70 from the NV control panel and left the max in the game uncapped and saw a much higher load. When capped in game the cpu load was very low.
I watched two hours of this game and thought it was boring. The game might get better the more you proceed, as of now, I am not impressed.
If they actually spent 500 million on this game, i have to wonder… where it all went
Did you notice that the laser sword has no animation? It is already ignited when you select it. It had an animation in previous games.
It’s a plasma sword dipsh*t and it literally does have an animation https://youtu.be/1gJDaKIqIwA
There’s no direct comparison between previous Gheylos Energy swords, fail.
You micro d 1 c k s get really upset when people do not slob your games like you do.
Trashy player ! Go sleep re**rd American ! Take a gun and release yourself with better aim in your head ! Put your brains on the wall ! Your life is miserable ! How do tou support yoursefl ! You are so dirthy and ugly !
no need to insult his nationality here. also I think he’s from eastern europe not US.
Greedo Infinit. Thousands of Players complain about the obvious greedy monetization in the Halo subreddit .2 write death threads. Instead of banning those 2, 343 conveniently closes the whole subreddit. Soytakku writes an arcticle about how toxic gamers can´t behave and destroy everything while defending the greed. Everyone complaining is a racist, homophobe and santa inc. is the movie of the year.
the one in the middle of the last picture looks like chewbacca
>this turd gets roasted in the Brikenau ovens
mozzerfackingg kek, it’s anudda shohahha
I installed the HD texture pack and the graphics in this game are not impressive at all. Reminds me of how that Outriders demo felt. Blurry low quality graphics. Campaign started off god awful navigating small corridors. Got better in the open world area. Overall… worth playing once on gamepass. Paid a single dollar for 3 months which is fine. Game is highly forgettable. Not sure why anybody would pay $60us/$80cad for it. Enemy ai doesn’t feel smart anymore. Just cheap
Woketard propaganda is everywhere
Video games was born in the military, i guess it is fitting that it’s still propaganda, but at least we are not the demographic anymore, which can be good AND bad.
This thing is way too demanding for how ancient it looks.
Halo was always pozzed, but it becomes more noticeable the more western judeo american culture gets uglier and rotten. The first Halo already had a bit of diversity pandering with black(male) staff sergeant, female pilots and marines in general using plenty of hispanic lingo. Even Cortana serves as subtle feminist propaganda, since she calls the shots.
Then Halo 2 increased the trend with adding female marines to the mix, as well as female in high positions (Halo 2 anniversary goes further and uglifies Keynes Daughter). The covenant was highly religious (aka backwards in their concept, they do remind me of a muslim terrorists with biblical themes) and no females in their ranks. Halo 3 and Reach is more of the same in this regard.
Halo ODST goes a bit further with the side story of the cliche (that never happens irl) of high IQ black scientist father and daughter.
Then Halo 5 uglifies Cortana, Infinite now adds ugly black females and crap graphics, and the cycle of decline continues.
Edit: already getting downvotes from the usual suspects. Those things i mention are all facts, but i’m supposed to like the propaganda programming.
” For Reach they started Female spartans, that was the blow which started.”
They also made ODST squad leader a female.
Not really, the space marines was already multi-racial and multi-gender from the start, they just progressively implemented more of it with sequels. While there was no female marines in the first game, a pilot needs way more training than a regular marine, and they already included female pilots in the first game (meanwhile real life counterparts are huge pile of fail).
I take games like Halo and COD for what it is: US military propaganda disguised as sci-fi/action games. Just compare state military propaganda back in 2001 and today, the diversity and ugly black females are just a late addition. Recall that in 2001 they invaded afghanistan using feminist pretexts (it was actually for poppy fields, but the morality of invading a country is just as important).
If i recall, in Mass Effect future every human would become mixed race and original blue eyes and blond hair bred out, and they would explain how that was an advantage in ME2 when humans where immune to a virus in the Salarian recruitment quest.
Also if you save Wrex, the hyper masculine Krogans would turn feminist and say “diversity is our strenght”, never mind their own planet getting nuked because of different tribes or whatever.
Unfortunately you have neither.
It’s surprising that Xbot shill Sampler Feedback isn’t in the comments section of this article damage controlling this game. The game’s visuals are mediocre and it runs like sh*t.
And he is the less memorable spartan in the entire series.
DX12 – now with 10x more blue screens & diversity.
All gaylos are a disaster imho. Always hated this normie drivel.
I’m so happy you still do those. I really wanted to know how this game does scaled across different core configurations. Please never stop.
Absolute Love the game, great Graphics, sound and music. Halo is Halo! Great game!
Play on low settings, they still look really good.