Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint is the next part in the Ghost Recon series. Breakpoint is an online tactical shooter that is using the AnvilNext 2.0 Engine. Ubisoft has provided with a review code, so 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 3600Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX580 and RX Vega 64, NVIDIA’s RTX 2080Ti, GTX980Ti and GTX690. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce driver 436.48 and the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.9.3 drivers. NVIDIA has not included any SLI profile for this title, meaning that our GTX690 performed similarly to a single GTX680.
Ubisoft has implemented a respectable amount of graphics settings. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Ambient Occlusion, Level of Detail, Textures, Anisotropic Filtering, Screen Space Shadows, Terrain and Grass. There are also options for Screen Space Reflections, Sun Shadows, Subsurface Scattering, Long Range Shadows and Volumetric Fog. Ubisoft has also added a FOV slider, a resolution scaler, Image Sharpening, support for FidelityFX and more.
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. For both our CPU and GPU tests, we used the built-in benchmark tool as it’s representative of the in-game performance. For our CPU tests, we also reduced our resolution to 1280×720 (so we could avoid any possible GPU bottlenecks).
Surprisingly enough, Ghost Recon Breakpoint can run smoothly even on a modern-day dual-core system. Our simulated dual-core was able to push a minimum of 41fps and an average of 72fps. When we enabled Hyper threading, our minimum framerate went to 57fps and our averaged climbed at 92fps. Furthermore, Ghost Recon Breakpoint appears to be mainly using 6 CPU cores/threads.
What’s also interesting here is that the game runs with constant 60fps even on older CPUs. Our Intel i7 4930K was able to push a minimum of 64fps and an average of 93fps. At both 1080p and 1440p, our NVIDIA RTX2080Ti was not used to its fullest. Still, the game was running smoothly on Ultimate settings.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint comes with six presets: Low, Medium, High, Very High, Ultra and Ultimate. At 1080p and on Ultimate settings, the only GPU that was able to offer a constant 60fps experience was the RTX2080Ti. The AMD Radeon RX Vega dropped during some scenes below 50fps, and averaged at 63fps.
At 1440p, our GTX980Ti was limited by its VRAM and under-performed. Once again, the only GPU that was able to run smoothly the game was the RTX2080Ti. As for 4K, both the GTX980Ti and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 were VRAM-limited. On the other hand, the RTX2080Ti was able to push a minimum of 44fps and an average of 55fps.
Now the good news here is that the game can scale on less powerful GPUs. By lowering our resolution scaler to 80%, we were able to run the game smoothly in 4K and on Ultimate settings on the RTX2080Ti. In native 4K, we also came close to a smooth gaming experience on Ultra settings on the RTX2080Ti. And as we’ve already reported, this final version runs significantly better than the closed beta build.
Graphics wise, Ghost Recon Breakpoint looks absolutely stunning. Its environments are among the best we’ve seen in a triple-A game. Moreover, the game features some cool weather/wind effects and the grass bends as you walk through it. Ubisoft has used photogrammetry and all of the textures look incredible. The only downside here are the character models that are not as mind-blowing as what COD or Battlefield currently offer. Still, Ghost Recon Breakpoint is one of the best visually games of 2019.
All in all, Ghost Recon Breakpoint performs great on the PC platform. The game looks and runs better than Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Ghost Recon: Wildlands and Watch_Dogs 2. Still, we did notice some rare stuttering issues, so here is hoping that Ubisoft will be able to resolve them via a post-launch update. Other than that, Ghost Recon Breakpoint’s PC version is actually pretty solid. It has a lot of graphics settings, it can scale on older hardware, and it does not suffer from mouse acceleration/smoothing issues. Kudos to Ubisoft for delivering such a polished PC product, though let’s hope that it will reduce the game’s micro-transactions after the backlash.
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The game doesn’t look any bit as good on my setup as it does in these screenshots and I’m trying to find out why. Did you capture the screenshots with temporal injection on or off? How about in the performance tests?
Temporal injection, while offering a 50% framerate boost, is rendering the game at half your native resolution and scaling it up and it looks terrible. Ubisoft has been using this cheap trick for a while now to make their games run better and I guess that maybe the masses can’t tell the difference, but it looks absolutely awful. The blurring is unbearable, and the artifacts are noticeable in almost every scenario. They really started using it in Watch Dogs 2, then AC: Origins and Odyssey, and now this game. Instead of optimizing their game, they’re skipping the optimization altogether and just turning this garbage on to cut the resolution in half.
Is better implemented in WD2 and AC, here looks like sh*t and the downgrade is terrible, this game is poorly optimized, looks good but not that great, Ubisoft need to tune up their games and start checking their engines.
Temporal injection by very nature renders at a lower resolution and uses multiple frames to extrapolate and Infer information about a scene to “upscale” it. It produces a loaf of artifacts though. Look at any tansparent texture and move the camera quickly. You’ll see the blurring/ghosting effect. The entire scene is blurry as well and has a major lack of clarity. I’m running at 3440 x 1440
I’ve been going on about this since the Alpha.
I’ve been bothered by this trend ever since they started it in Watch Dogs 2. I don’t know it isn’t bothering most people. Admittedly, I am a graphics snob with a 21:9 34″ monitor, so I probably notice more details, but the artifacts aren’t exactly subtle. And notice how Ubisoft completely started abandoning SLI support right around the time they implemented it, because temporal algorithms are not at all compatible with split frame rendering.
Yeah I’m using a 4k screen and the difference with it on and off is night and day. Unfortunately, off it kills my frame rate especially at the 4k res. I also don’t get how more people aren’t noticing it more, it is horrible especially when moving.
He’s right. Turn it off and you will see a huge image quality improvement but your frame rate will tank.
Temporal injection you know what he was talking about and you commented on.
Temporal injection. It’s the option above anti-aliasing in the graphics menu.
Aren’t people getting tired of these forests yet? While it looks good it’s definitely not an eye-candy since these copypasted, huge environments barely change in ubisoft games. Can’t wait for the insane grass sway to be introduced in Far Cry 7 and AC sequel…
fail processor https://media3.giphy.com/media/oGO1MPNUVbbk4/giphy.gif
That cpu usage…. Holy shi….
Typical Ubisoft game, takes cpu like your running a video rendering. And why the hell this game looks like from 2010 ???
I bought AC origins, started playing and I couldnt keep steady fps no matter the settings on i7-6700 and gtx 1660 ti 6gb, not to mention no matter the settings I would get the same results ohhh and my cpu usage was between 85-100% thats no way normal.
Say “Hi” to Denuvo and VMP
Yeah it f@@ked me really hard
= Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Wildlands was not that bad, mostly in COOP.
Ubisoft doesn’t know what optimization means. AnvilNext needs to be scrapped.
Why do you continue to use only the Vega and not include the Radeon 7 when you use the 2080 TI? Are you that pro Nvidia?
They should scrap this fool engine and replace it with better optimized engine+mods friendly…but its Ubisoft,they wont let that happen..
Ubisoft isn’t preventing a new engine from being built? Why would they not “let that happen?” It takes years to build a new engine and trying to do that and release a new game every year for every franchise the way they do just doesn’t leave any time or resources to work on it. They probably have a team slowly building a new engine that they’ll showcase a newer game on for “next gen” or whatever, like they did with AC Unity.
I mean its not the engine itself but the mods support. Thats why i said they wont let it happen because you know,anvil engine is not mod friendly…i should’ve choose better words to describe it lol
That may be true, though I don’t think they really care that much about their games being modded. Especially the single player ones like AC Odyssey. They even added an update for people to create their own quests, which is “modding” to a very small degree.
Perhaps they don’t want people creating and sharing cosmetics and weapon sets that would otherwise be bought from the store, but they could easily implement measures to prevent that regardless of the engine they build on.
great graphics if your not wanting to look out past 200m or less, graphics are great and muddy 200+ sniping in this useless, game is junk until fixed