Deep Silver has just released its new adrenaline-rush sci-fi FPS, METAL EDEN. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, it’s time now to benchmark it and examine its performance on PC.
For our benchmarks, I used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 7900XTX, RX 9070XT, as well as NVIDIA’s RTX 2080Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 4090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090. I also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 581.15, and the Radeon Adrenalin Edition 25.8.1 drivers.
Reikon Games has included a few graphics settings to tweak. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Textures, Global Illumination, Shadows, and more. There is also support for NVIDIA DLSS 3, AMD FSR 3.0, and Intel XeSS 2.0. And although there is support for Frame Gen with AMD FSR and Intel XeSS, there is no support for DLSS 3 Frame Gen.
METAL EDEN does not have a built-in benchmark tool. So, for our benchmark, I used the following area. This area appeared to be more demanding than all the others you will encounter early in the game. As such, it should give us a pretty good idea of how the rest of it runs.
At Native 1080p/Ultra Settings, most of our GPUs were able to provide framerates higher than 60FPS. The only GPU that is unable to provide a 60FPS experience is the NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti. The AMD Radeon RX 6900XT manages to compete with the NVIDIA RTX 3080. The AMD Radeon RX 9070XT is also able to match the performance of the AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX.
At Native 1440p/Ultra Settings, our top four GPUs were able to provide a smooth gaming experience. As for Native 4K/Ultra Settings, the only GPU that was able to run it with over 60FPS at all times was the NVIDIA RTX 5090.
METAL EDEN also appears to scale well with its in-game settings. By dropping to High settings, we were able to get over 100FPS at all times at Native 4K on the NVIDIA RTX 5090. Medium Settings appeared to run similarly to High. But then we have the Low Settings. These completely strip the game of its lighting. As such, we get a massive performance boost. Below you can find a comparison between Ultra and Low settings.
Graphics-wise, METAL EDEN looks great. It has some visual issues, like the really noisy Lumen reflections. Moreover, a lot of reflections are using SSR and not Lumen. You’ll also notice some lighting artifacts due to the low quality of Lumen. This is one of the main reasons this game runs better than other UE5 games. Yes, you get a better performance. But that comes at the cost of visual quality.
It’s worth noting that I did not experience any major stutters in METAL EDEN. This is something that will please a lot of PC gamers. I perhaps got one or two stutters during my tests. Thankfully, there are no shader compilation stutters.
All in all, METAL EDEN is another UE5 game that performs great on PC. However, that comes at a cost. There are noticeable visual issues with it. So, it will be ironic to see those who complain about the DLSS artifacts praise this game’s performance. You’ll still get visual artifacts, only this time they are due to the low quality of Lumen and not due to DLSS. Earlier today, we reported on Hell is Us. Hell is Us is more demanding than METAL EDEN and has a more stable image than it does. Both of them run better than the vast majority of UE5 games, though.
Enjoy!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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I tried it and didn't like it, it looks like it's the type of game I'd enjoy but I didn't.
same
I like that they give you the option to scale down the graphics so much, even if it does come at the cost of the artistic vision. More games should do this. The epic settings should've been pushed higher though, especially the reflection settings.
Tell the trannies who work for these poor, innocent multi-billion dollar corporations who want to genocide the human race enforcing mandatory Gay Tracing with no option whatsoever to disable it in their newer gaymes to take notes.
Oh wait, don't tell them, they won't listen, because their sole reason for making these propaganda "games" is to brainwash these gullible and simple-minded goyim normies to normalize their filth rather than actually making something that people would have fun and smile with.
Seeing not only the Steam reviews for trash like (((Doom: The Gay Dark Ages))) still sitting on "Very Positive" overall reviews despite requiring super expensive GPUs and still can't run that good even on a $2000 RTX 4090 because of the mandatory Gay Tracing that can't even be disabled and for a gayme that doesn't even look that good in the first place, but also seeing tutorials on Steam on how to mod a game and how most of the comments in whatever mod there is don't even know how to do extremely basic stuff despite being short, oversimplified and basic guides only made me realize how extremely retarded and low IQ the buyfags really are just like those on Steam.
They literally don't even know how to do something as extremely basic such as where does Steam installs games by default, and they can only locate a game's directory through Steam's UI, whereas this and things that are way, way more complex than that are just everyday things for the average pirate.
I would rather look at ugly cube maps than noisy SSR/Lumen. Also, let's not pretend that DLSS4 is artifact free.
you have an amd gpu i can imagine
WTF are you on about? Nvidia won the GPU war. I'm currently on 3080, but will most likely switch to AMD due to the connector.
Dont worry about that, best thing is to buy the 90 degrees one, you can find it for purchase at corsair store
i played this game and thought whats wrong with visuals? its broken. So u say its noisy lumen,damn. those shiny metals really need high quality hardware lumen .shame .i dont think they fix it .what a waste .
This game looks like AI made it – it's so uninspired in terms of level design and mechanics.
UE6 = RTX 6090 @ 6fps !!!!!!!!!!
if UE5 will force Software/Hardware RayTracing, UE6 will indeed force PathTracing which is far far far worse than we can ever imagine , if you think UE5 is crap…… UE6 will be A true nightmare !!!
RiP Gaming !!!!
These benches can't be right. My 9800X3D/5090 combo at 4K with everything set to Epic, lighting as Lumen, NO DLSS (so running native 4K) I am capping at 120 FPS because that's my max screen rate (using 75" TV) and it maintains 120 FPS.
These benches can't be right. My 9800X3D/5090 combo at 4K with everything set to Epic, lighting as Lumen, NO DLSS (so running native 4K) I am capping at 120 FPS because that's my max screen rate (using 75" TV) and it maintains 120 FPS.
I brought Metal Eden & Hell is Us….( dont plan on playing till 6000rtx comes out)…just to support novel and new IP in the wasteland of Gaming… But DAM these #'s are brutal.
Lumen is unefficient and costly and you cannot be never sure the developers would implement the rtx plug for ue5