The Witcher 3 Benchmark GTX 970/980/Titan X vs R9 290/290X

The Witcher iii: Wild Hunt is certainly an amazing open globe RPG, just a very demanding one as well. A video criterion testing the title with various GPU heavyweights was released by the folks over at Digital Foundry, which tin can be viewed beneath:

The Witcher iii: Wild Chase benchmark runs from two cutting-scenes and gameplay from i of the most CPU-intensive parts of the game, Novigrad City. The game is running maxed out on ultra, but with Nvidia HairWorks disabled.

Digital Foundry compares the two top-tier Radeons - the R9 290 and 290X - along with the pinnacle three GeForce cards, the GTX 970, 980 and Titan X. The Radeon cards are prone to frame-time spikes, either on scene changes in cutting-scenes (non really a problem) or during CPU-intensive areas of gameplay.

Here are the benchmark results, in the form of everyman, then average frame-rates. Digital Foundry states that this is one of the biggest scalings they accept seen from GTX 980 to Titan X on a modern game. The Witcher three'south GPU utilisation is epic.

1080p

Titan X - 65.0/84.4
GTX 980 - 49.0/65.8
GTX 970 - 41.0/56.0
290X - 34.0/50.5
290 - 33.0/46.4

1440p

Titan X - 50.0/63.three
980 - 36.0/47.5
970 - 30.0/39.2
290X - 26.0/38.two
290 - 24.0/35.three

The Witcher iii Hunter'south Config is a nifty tool granting easy access to graphical options. The grass quality in The Witcher 3, besides as the functioning, can be improved by a few adjustment sin the ini files. AMD has made available a workaround on how to run HairWorks on AMD GPUs without crippling performance, which enables AMD GPU users to enkoy The Witcher 3 with HairWorks enabled.

Yous can bank check out some beautiful 4K screenshots of the PC version equally well as some 4K gameplay footage, both of which demonstrate but how smashing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt can look.

The Witcher 3 is available for the PlayStation 4, Xbox I and PC. We will bring you whatever new information on The Witcher 3 every bit soon as it becomes available. Be certain to check out our previous coverage for more information on The Witcher iii, here and hither.