Hell is Us Demo - PC performance graphics benchmarks of Graphics Cards and Processors
We have tested Hell is Us Demo on maximum graphics settings with video cards of the GeForce RTX 20, 30, 40 and 50 series, as well as Radeon RX 6000, 7000 and 9000. Also, during the tests we conducted, we assessed the quality of the graphic display of the game itself.
| THE GRAFICAL PART |
This subsection of our review highlights the main graphical aspects of this game. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphic settings and the quality of development of the main visual aspects.
| Supported OS and Graphics API |
The project is designed for modern processors and video cards with DirectX 12 support and 8-12 GB of video memory. Upscaling is used as the main rendering mode — the game was tested with image scaling algorithms activated, but the exact technologies (DLSS, FSR, XeSS) are not specified. In the mode with minimal settings, it is possible to run on HDD, but at high settings, SSD is required. Below are the official minimum and recommended system requirements.
Minimum system requirements
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OS: Windows 10 64-bit
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Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K or AMD Ryzen 3 3300X
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Memory: 16 GB
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Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (6 GB)
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DirectX: 12
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Storage: 30 GB
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Sound Card: Compatible with Windows
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Additional: HDD supported, SSD recommended. Game tested with upscale enabled.
Recommended System Requirements
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OS: Windows 10 64-bit
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Processor: Intel Core i7-11700K or AMD Ryzen 5 7600
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Memory: 32 GB
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Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (11GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT (12GB)
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DirectX: 12
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Storage: 30 GB
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Sound Card: Compatible with Windows
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Additional: SSD is required. The game has been tested with upscale enabled.
| DEVELOPMENT HISTORY |
hell is us is an upcoming action-adventure game being developed using Unreal Engine 5. The project was announced in April 2022 and was originally planned for release in 2023. However, the release was pushed back to September 4, 2025 to ensure higher quality and depth of gameplay.
The game's plot takes place in a fictional country engulfed in civil war and isolated from the rest of the world. Players take on the role of a character named Remy, who returns to his homeland in search of his parents and encounters mysterious creatures known as "Void Wanderers".
The game's development began with the goal of creating a unique experience that would be different from traditional games of the genre. One of the key features was the lack of a mini-map, compass and quest markers. Players will have to navigate the world by relying on dialogue with non-player characters, the environment, and their own intuition.
The game is inspired by the events of the 1990s and explores themes of psychological trauma, the limits of human understanding and the unknown forces of nature. The developers aimed to create an atmosphere in which players would not only fight external threats, but also face internal conflicts.
In September 2024, a gameplay trailer was shown at an event hosted by Sony, confirming the new release date. Since then, the developers have been actively working on optimizing and polishing the game to provide players with a high-quality and exciting experience.
| GRAPHICS |
hell is us stands out for its unique visual style, combining realism and elements of surrealism. The game world is presented as a dilapidated region with elements of post-apocalypse, where nature and technology coexist in strange harmony.
Particular attention was paid to lighting and color palette. The game uses contrasting colors and dynamic lighting to create a tense and mysterious atmosphere. Shadows and lighting effects play a key role in conveying mood and emotion.
The design of the creatures known as Hollow Wanderers is a mixture of organic and inorganic elements, making them both frightening and fascinating. Their animations and behavior emphasize their alien nature and enhance the sense of danger.
The user interface is minimalistic, which contributes to a deeper immersion into the game. The lack of a minimap and quest markers forces players to pay attention to environmental details and dialogue with NPCs. This decision highlights the developers' desire to create a more realistic and intuitive gaming experience.
Overall, the graphics hell is us represents a harmonious combination of realism and artistic approach, creating a unique visual experience that sets the game apart from other projects in the action-adventure genre.
| GAME ENGINE |
hell is us developed on Unreal Engine 5, which allows the game to use advanced graphics technologies and provide high quality visuals. The engine provides the ability to create realistic lighting, detailed textures and complex animations.
The game uses technologies that allow creating highly detailed models and realistic global illumination in real time. This provides a deeper immersion into the game world and makes the visuals more impressive.
The game supports resolution scaling technologies such as DLSS, FSR and XeSS, which can improve performance on various configurations. This is especially important for achieving stable frame rates at high resolutions.
In general, technical features hell is us demonstrate the developers' commitment to using the latest technology to create an immersive and visually impressive gaming experience.
| QUALITY |
On the minimum settings The game uses aggressive scaling with simplified geometry, blurred shadows and disabled reflections. Textures are loaded with a delay, especially on the HDD, the draw distance is reduced, and environmental details are noticeably simplified. Lighting works in a basic mode without complex effects, there is no soft shading and light scattering.
On the maximum settings Full shaders, volumetric lighting, increased detail of textures and effects, including particles, smoke and light rays are used. Scaling is still active, but it works at a high internal resolution, which gives a clear image without artifacts. The drawing distance has been increased, post-processing, soft shadows and expanded materials on the surface of objects are active.
| TEST PART |
Below you will find a table of equipment that was kindly provided by our sponsors: GIGABYTE, ASUS, Kingston и Deep Cool. It reflects the list of motherboards, video cards, memory modules and cooling systems used in the tests, and also indicates the current configuration of the operating system and drivers.
| Test configuration | |
| GIGABYTE | |
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| ASUS | |
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| Video Cards |
Asus GeForce RTX 5070 TUF Gaming OC ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC |
| KINGSTON | |
| RAM |
16 GB DDR4 4600 CL19 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR5 5600 CL40 Kingston FURY Beast 32 GB DDR5 6000 CL30 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR5 7200 CL36 Kingston FURY Renegade 48GB DDR5 7200 CL36 Kingston FURY Renegade |
| Storage devices |
Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD |
| Deep Cool | |
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Cases and cooling |
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| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 11 24H2 |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 576.52 WHQL AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.5.2 |
| Monitoring programs | MSI Afterburner 4.6.6 Beta 5 Build 16555 |
All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality using MSI Afterburner. The purpose of the test is to determine how video cards from different manufacturers behave under the same conditions. Below is a video of a test segment from the game:
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes 1920x1080, 2560x1440 и 3840x2160 with maximum graphics quality settings without upscales.
| TEST GPU |
In the video card test, the default resolution is 1920x1080; other resolutions are added and removed manually. You can also remove and add any positions of video cards. You can also select any of our test processors from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given video card tests (by default, the most productive solution is selected). The test is carried out on the most powerful CPU in this game and is scaled to other processors, taking into account their testing on NVIDIA and AMD video cards.
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When resolved 1920x1080:
- Average FPS (25 frames): Reached on video cards of the level of Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 3060.
- Minimum FPS (25 frames): Provided by video cards of the Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti level.
- Comfortable average FPS (60 frames): Possible with video cards of the Radeon RX 7900 or GeForce RTX 5070 level.
When resolved 2560x1440:
- Average FPS (25 frames): Achieved on Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 4060 Ti level graphics cards.
- Minimum FPS (25 frames): Provided by video cards of the Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 4060 Ti level.
- Comfortable average FPS (60 frames): Possible with GeForce-level video cards RTX 4090.
When resolved 3840x2160:
- Average FPS (25 frames): Reached on video cards of the level of Radeon RX 9070 XT or GeForce RTX 4080.
- Minimum FPS (25 frames): Provided by video cards of the GeForce RTX 5080 level.
| VIDEO MEMORY CONSUMPTION |
Testing of the video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the MSI Afterburner program. The results on video cards from AMD and NVIDIA at separate screen resolutions of 1920x1080, 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 with different anti-aliasing settings were taken as an indicator. By default, the most current solutions are displayed in the graph. Other video cards are added and removed from the graph at the reader's request.
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GameGPU
Resolution 1920x1080:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 8 GB
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 8 GB
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 8 GB
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 8 GB
Resolution 2560x1440:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 8 GB
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 8 GB
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 8 GB
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 9 GB
Resolution 3840x2160:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 10 GB
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 10 GB
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 10 GB
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 11 GB
| CPU TEST |
Testing was carried out at a resolution of 1920x1080. In the processor test, you can remove or add any processor positions. You can also select any tested video card from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given processor test results (by default, the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected). Testing takes place on the most powerful NVIDIA and AMD video cards and scales to low-end models.
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When using NVIDIA video cards:
- Processors for acceptable FPS (not lower than 25 frames per second):
- AMD Ryzen 3 3100
- Intel Core i3-10100
- Processors for comfortable FPS (at least 60 frames per second):
- AMD Ryzen 3 3100
- Intel Core i3-10100
When using AMD video cards:
- Processors for acceptable FPS (not lower than 25 frames per second):
- AMD Ryzen 3 3100
- Intel Core i3-10100
- Processors for comfortable FPS (at least 60 frames per second):
- AMD Ryzen 3 3100
- Intel Core i3-10100
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Loading and using streams:
- Maximum load: The game can load up to 16 streams.
- Optimal loading: Uses up to 12 threads as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The indicator was taken as all used RAM. The RAM test on the all system was conducted on various video cards without launching third-party applications (browsers, etc.). In the graphics, you can add and remove any resolutions and video cards as desired.
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GameGPU
Resolution 1920x1080:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
Resolution 2560x1440:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
Resolution 3840x2160:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
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