Believe it or not, I was a huge wrestling fan back in the 90s. The Ultimate Warrior, Big Boss Man, The Million Dollar Man, Hulk Hogan… man, those were the days. I also believe that WWF WrestleFest is the best wrestling game ever, mainly thanks to its incredible 2D mechanics, and in my opinion nothing can come close to it. But anyway, the latest part in the WWE 2K series has been released so its time now to benchmark it and see how it performs on the PC platform.
For this PC Performance Analysis, we used an Intel i7 4930K (overclocked at 4.2Ghz) with 8GB RAM, AMD’s Radeon RX580 and RX Vega 64, NVIDIA’s GTX980Ti and GTX690, Windows 10 64-bit and the latest version of the GeForce (416.34) and Catalyst drivers (18.10.1). NVIDIA has not included any SLI profile for this game, meaning that our GTX690 performed similarly to a single GTX680.
2K Games has added very few graphics settings. PC gamers can only adjust the quality of textures and the audience density, and there are options to enable/disable Shadows, FXAA, Depth of Field and Motion Blur. And that’s it. Thankfully though the game displays proper keyboard on-screen indicators and it comes with a built-in benchmark tool (the benchmarks can be considered a stress test as it features six wrestlers in a battle royal mode).
In order to find out how the game performs on a variety of CPUs, we simulated a dual-core and a quad-core CPU. And we are happy to report that even our simulated dual-core system was able to offer a constant 60fps experience at 1080p on Max settings. Ah yes, forgot to tell you that the game is locked at 60fps.
WWE 2K19 does not require a high-end GPU in order to be enjoyed as even our AMD Radeon RX580 was able to offer a constant 60fps experience. Our GTX680 was able to push a minimum of 40fps and an average of 45fps (with Low textures) in the benchmark test so even though the game lacks any extensive graphics settings, it can easily run on a wide range of graphics cards.
Both of our NVIDIA GTX980Ti and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 were able to offer a smooth experience at 1080p and 1440p. At 4K, though, both of these graphics cards were unable to run the benchmark with constant 60fps. The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 came close to it (and in single matches it can run the game with 60fps however there will be slowdowns during double matches). Again, the benchmark is mainly a stress test featuring a worst case scenario.
Graphics wise, WWE 2K19 looks absolutely stunning. The wrestlers look incredible and their in-game character models are among best we’ve seen. All the official intros have been included and retain their real-life atmosphere, so kudos to 2K Games for accomplishing such a thing. My only gripe with WWE 2K19 – and basically all 3D wrestling games – is the animation transition between the various moves. This is an area that WWF WrestleFest excelled due to its 2D mechanics and in WWE 2K19 the wrestlers behave like robots. The transition is not organic and makes the wrestlers feel unnatural. This is perhaps the only thing that 2K Games will have to address in future versions of the WWE 2K series (my guess is that the next-gen version may address it when the new consoles come out).
All in all, WWE 2K19 works like a charm on the PC platform. It looks great, supports both gamepads and keyboard, displays proper on-screen indicators for your preferred control scheme, and can run on a really wide range of PC configurations. Tech-wise, and apart from the robot-ish animation transition, there is nothing to complain here; WWE 2K19 is a really polished product on the PC!
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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Ppl ask why so many play games from Ubisoft and EA..
Crap like this is why.
BTW. guys 2070 reviews starts showing up. Better performance compared to GTX 1080, for higher price :P.
“”HardOCP has an exclusive for you today. Since we have not signed
NVIDIA’s recent NDA, we are not being sourced RTX review cards by NVIDIA
or its AIBs. We were however able to source a retail sample from
overseas. The official embargo for the RTX 2070 expires Tuesday at 8am
CDT. Since we are not held to NVIDIA’s embargo we have a full RTX 2070
performance review for you today””
When it arrives 😛 (should be this week)
Nice, and are you guys planning to update your recent performance analysis (shadow of the tomb raider or odyssey for example)?
There will be an article about performance in 1080p, 1440p and 4K in older games like Quantum Break, Origins, Odyssey, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and more.
That makes little to ZERO sense. What’s so exciting about these TURING cards, unless someone really wants these RTX/DLSS features, which only few games are going to support ?
Even the GTX 2070 is way too much expensive than the previous gen cards.
Are you ready to pay $100 as a premium, just to get a similar performance envelope of the GTX 1080 ? A highly overclocked GTX 1080 is still going to be a much better bang for the buck purchase.
Not every gamer can afford a 2K/4K monitor as well, let alone these RTX cards. Also, the 2070 needs to be highly overclocked to match the 1080 performance, as per the review.
Btw, HardOCP/Kyle Bennett cannot be fully trusted, because once he was cut out from NV sponsoring, he has started crying, and behaving in a different manner.
What’s so exciting about turing? 1080ti run the most demanding games at 45-50fps in 4K, and if somene game on 4K panel, then 2080ti is clear upgrade, because unlike 1080ti it can run finally 99% of games in 60fps. 2080ti is basically SLI 1080 performance and with more future proof technology.
The most demanding games like new tomb raider can dip sometimes below 60fps on 2080ti, but with simple tweaks even this game can run amazing without the need of using low settings, 83fps at high settings, while the same game runs just in 50fps on 1080ti, that’s very impressive result.
-hellblade 42fps on 1080ti, and 69 fps on 2080ti
-GR wildlands run around 70 fps on very high settings in 4K!
-Odyssey 55fps average maxed out, and 65-80 fps with few tweaks
-the evil within 2 (finally 65fps, not 45fps)
-the witcher 3 including HW) 42-55 fps on 1080ti, 55-85fps on 2080ti
and in vulcan 2080ti performance is EXTREMELY good
-doom 62min and 100fps average on 1080ti, and 113fps min on 2080ti and 132fps on 2080ti. I was blown away after watching bank4bucks gamer 4K gameplay on his 2080ti from that game, 110-180 fps during his first 5 minutes of gameplay :D. for comparison, 980ti barely even reach 60fps on average with the same settings, 2080ti is clearly much faster card. You can look at Bank4Bucks gamer gameplay videos for yourself on YT, because he already tested probably all demanding games right now on his 2080ti.
For average gamer 980ti is still probably good enough (it’s still faster GPU compared to consoles), and especially if you dont game in 4K, but John is not average gamer, he is testing performance in games, and on 980ti he cant even test vram usage correctly, because many games use more than 6GB VRAM already. He basically need good GPU for his work. Because he bought 2080ti already, thanks to it he will be able to review games with RTX/DLSS features in the near future (and also other features like news shading features like veriable rate shading) and tell you if these things really make a difference :).
You sound like a complete nvidia FANBOY. Your comment makes no sense for the average gamer, so plz stop posting such amateurish replies.
Who cares about fps, and benchmark performance numbers for the 2080 Ti!! 4K is beyond the reach for majority of the gamers. Dream on !
It’s total nonsense. It seems you are very RICH enough to support such high-end GPU products, which the majority aren’t interested in.
Enuff said.
You can always play on consoles in lower resolutions if you want, but please dont tell other people what standards they should have, and especially on PC centric site like here, where 4K is considering a big thing among PC enthusiasts.
Like I have said, 2080ti is not cheap, but it’s still not that much expensive either compared with other really expensive things in life. With average salary in EU (100 euro/day) many people can still afford this GPU (and buy it with their single monthly salary and especially if someone still dont have kids and gaming is their hobby). With high end GPU like 2080ti people can play their favorite games with the best settings possible till next GPU will be announced, and then they can sell their current card and buy next one with small difference in price.
If the majority of people on this site are poor as you clearly suggest, then maybe they should think about their future and do something with their life besides playing games.
Just SHUT up already, please ! You make ZERO sense here on DSOG and are just spamming your personal opinions on others…
Don’t force your ideas on others. Get a life..Don’t bother replying back, as I won’t be checking my account anytime soon.
LMFAO….This Lucky8 guy is a total jerk/moron here on dsog. Enuff said.
I like to post brutally honest comments, and some guys here obviously dont want to hear facts, and the fact is if people cant afford basically anything it’s their own fault, not someone else. I told people they should work in order to improve their life situation, and of course only jerk like me can tell you the truth.
I’m 32, and if people would not use offensive language towards me (one guy already delated his comments so you may not see it now) I would not even bother responding to them in similar way. All what I did is talk about RTX series and it was enough for some guys to offend and attack me, because if they cant afford high end GPU, then no one else should talk about these cards here. One guy even wrote me no one care about performance and resolution, and DSOG is PC centric site, not console centric site.
As I can see you you already bought RTX 2080. I hope these people will not hate you or attack you if you start posting your positive impressions in regards to your card.
Little point in having a 2080Ti in the performance analysis, because we all know how expensive this GPU is, despite it will beat other cards being tested in the same review.
980 Ti may be old, but it still packs some punch. Having one of the high-end GTX 10 series cards for testing, would make more sense though.
+1 for your thoughts. Very, very few can afford a 2080 Ti and even then it’s not really necessary, at least for now. I would rather see some down to Earth benches from cards that are affordable.
A 1080 Ti would be a good addition though but I can extrapolate the performance from my 980 Ti easily enough. Just add 50% in most cases.
LoL, it seems John just posted an article as well, after reading his comment on HardOCP.
Well, it’s not cheap for sure, but in EU average salary is 2000 euro so many people can still afford 2080ti if you dont spend money on other hobbies (or family, because kids can be expensive as you must know :P). If you say 1200 euro is expensive, then how you plan to buy your own house (260 000+ euro), or even good car? Engineer in my work spend sometimes 1000 euro just for ONE BOTTLE OF GOOD WINE, wile GPU like 2080ti will last you probably 2 years.
When it comes to 1080ti, in many game’s even 980SLI are slower compared to single 1080ti, it’s much faster card compared to 980ti than just 50%.
It’s more expensive compared to 1080ti, but it’s still nowhere near as expensive as for example quadro.
Okay, yes.
But we don’t use a QUADRO GPU at least for Gaming ? Quadro lineup series have their own price tag, because they target other market segments, like deep learning, AI, workstation, computing and other data centres.
Just ignore this guy, He makes ZERO sense and is just spamming his own views. waste of time arguing with him.
So why are you responding to my comments? I shared my own opinion, while you try to force your opinions on me in really immature way. Now you even delated your comments before I even answered them (let me quess why, you probably realized your comments were stupid?). But dont worry, I have all your comments on my mail, so I can always quote them here and write my answer.
I’m not suggesting you should buy quadro card for yourself, but your definition of something “expensive” is a little bit over exaggerated when you compare it with some other REALLY expensive things in life.
In countries like Germany the minimum wage in 2018 is 8 euro per hour, or around 1500 euro per month (McDonald’s cashier earns around 1.700 euro). So even someone with simple job can buy GPU like 2080ti just with their single monthly salary, not to mention normal people with average salary, or rich people.
Of course not all people will be willing to spend their whole single salary on GPU, and especially when they have kids, or other expenses, but 1000 euro cost it’s not something totally extreme, and especially if you compare it with other expensive things in life, for example in order to buy a house, you need around 260 000 euro, equivalent of 260x 2080ti cards, and that’s something really expensive.