Sofie: The Echoes - PC performance graphics benchmarks of Graphics Cards and Processors
| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
We tested the game Sofie: The Echoes at maximum graphics settings with GeForce RTX and Radeon RX series video cards. During our tests, we also assessed the performance and quality of the game's graphics display.
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In our review we present you the case DeepCool CH780WH. DeepCool CH780WH – is a spacious Mid Tower case, made in white with a large tempered glass window on the side panel. The case supports the installation of ATX, Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX motherboards, as well as video cards up to 380 mm long. DeepCool CH780WH It is equipped with an excellent cooling system with the ability to install up to 9 fans, and also supports liquid cooling systems with radiators up to 360 mm in size. For ease of assembly, the case has removable dust filters and sufficient space for cable management.
In our review we present you with a power supply Deepcool PX1200G 1200W. Deepcool PX1200G 1200W has a power of 1200 watts, 80 Plus Gold certification, which guarantees a high level of energy efficiency of up to 92%. It is equipped with a modular cable system for easy cable management and minimizing clutter in the case. The power supply supports protective functions such as OVP (overvoltage protection), SCP (short circuit protection) and OCP (overcurrent protection).
The power supply also supports the standard ATX 3.0, which is important for modern systems with high-performance components, such as the latest generation of graphics cards. The ATX 3.0 standard provides more stable power delivery, improved performance with peak loads, and support for the PCIe 5.0 slot, which is necessary for the latest graphics cards with high power requirements, such as the NVIDIA RTX 40-series. This makes Deepcool PX1200G the optimal choice for gamers and professionals who require reliable and efficient power for their powerful systems.
We will also consider Deepcool LT720, liquid cooling system with a 360 mm radiator. Deepcool LT720 has three 120 mm fans with addressable ARGB lighting, providing effective cooling and a stylish appearance. The cooler supports Intel LGA1700 and AMD AM5 platforms, making it compatible with most modern processors.
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In our review we present you with the motherboard ASUS ROG Strix B650-A Gaming Wi-Fi. ROG Strix B650-A Gaming WiFi includes 4 DDR5 DIMM modules with a maximum capacity of up to 64 gigabytes and a frequency of up to 6400 MHz. For the file subsystem, the motherboard supports 3 M.2 PCIe 5.0/4.0 x4 slots and 4 SATA 6 Gb/s ports. You can directly view the testing of this motherboard on our website.
In our review we present you with motherboards ASUS Z790-A GAMING DDR4. We use this motherboard as a test bench for testing new generations of processors. Intel.
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This time the company's top video card is participating in our test. ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition 20 GB.. This video card is based on the RDNA 3 architecture, operates at a frequency of 2500 MHz and has 20 gigabytes of video memory.
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In our review we present you with the motherboard Gigabyte X670E AORUS PRO X. We use this motherboard as a test bench for testing new generations of processors. AMD.
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In our review we used RAM: 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Kingston FURY Renegade, 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 Kingston FURY Renegade,32 GB DDR5 6000 Kingston FURY Renegade, 16 GB DDR4 4600 CL19 Kingston FURY Renegade и 32 GB DDR5 7200 Kingston FURY Renegade. And for game tests we use an external Kingston XS2000 Portable SSD 1TB.
In our review we used RAM Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5 48GB 7200MHz.
In our review we used RAM Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5-8000 48 GB Limited Edition.
In our review, for the full variety of our test benches, we use SSD drives Kingston KC600 256GB 2.5" SATAIII 3D NAND TLC и SSD drive Kingston NV3 1TB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 , which are an ideal choice for use when there are a large number of components.
| 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 |
Sophie: The Echoes supports Windows 10 and Windows 11 (64-bit) operating systems. The game uses DirectX 12 for graphics rendering, allowing you to achieve high standards of visualization quality and performance.
Sofie: The Echoes System Requirements
Minimum system requirements
- Operating system:Windows 10/11
- Processor: Intel i5-7600K or AMD equivalent
- RAM: 16 GB RAM
- Video card: GeForce GTX 1070 / Radeon RX 5600 XT
- DirectX: Version 12
- Disk space: 40 GB
Recommended System Requirements
- Operating system:Windows 10/11
- Processor: Intel Core i7-8700 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
- RAM: 16 GB RAM
- Video card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (8 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT (8 GB) or higher
- DirectX: Version 12
- Disk space: 40 GB
| DEVELOPMENT HISTORY |
Sophie: The Echoes — is a story-driven adventure game with psychological thriller elements, developed by the studio Working Game Studio Ltd.. The game's story revolves around the protagonist Sophie, a college professor and mother who faces horrific events after her husband and child mysteriously disappear. The game's development history included the creation of unique locations, each reflecting the emotional and psychological state of the protagonist, creating a deep and immersive gameplay experience. The developers aimed to create not just a game, but an emotionally charged journey that would deeply resonate with players. The process of creating locations and plot was aimed at forming a single coherent story, where each element of the environment contributed to the overall narrative and revealing the character of the heroine.
The game combines real and surreal elements, allowing players to explore complex and dark situations related to secret military experiments. The plot is based on themes of memory, love and resilience, as well as the character’s interaction with the environment and her memories of the past, which helps solve puzzles and open new paths. The developers paid great attention to the heroine’s emotional experiences, her internal monologues and memories, which play an important role in advancing the plot. This allows players to deeply understand Sophie’s motives and feelings, her fears and aspirations. Every choice the player makes affects the development of the plot, and this makes the story even more personalized and immersive.
Particular attention was paid to the interaction of the character with the environment. Working Game Studio Ltd. wanted to make sure that every detail of the environment played a role in the story. For example, the library on top of a snowy mountain symbolizes the heroine’s inner quest, her desire to find answers to her questions and overcome her fears. At the same time, the war-torn landscapes and zombie soldiers represent the external threats that Sophie must fight to save her family. Such contrasts create powerful emotional tension and make each scene unique.
The developers aimed to make the game's narrative unique, based on Sophie's memories and interactions with the world around her. Unlike traditional games, the story here is driven by the protagonist's experiences and memories, which play a key role in solving puzzles and opening up new possibilities. Themes of love, resilience, and the impact of memory on our decisions and personality are the main drivers of the plot, making it emotionally rich and intriguing. Every interaction with the environment, every clue found, or memory helps to reveal new aspects of the story and a deeper understanding of Sophie's character, her aspirations, and her motivations.
| GRAPHICS |
Graphics in Sophie: The Echoes is represented by beautifully designed and disturbing locations that enhance the emotional tension and drama of the game. Among them are a mysterious library on a snowy mountain and war-torn landscapes inhabited by zombie soldiers. Each location was carefully created to reflect Sophie's inner state, making the immersion into the world of the game as complete as possible. Dynamic lighting and high-quality textures were used to create a unique atmosphere, allowing players to feel the fear and anxiety of the main character throughout her story.
Particular attention was paid to creating an atmosphere of horror and uncertainty that permeates the entire game. The developers used sophisticated lighting technologies to create a contrast between bright, almost surreal moments and dark, oppressive scenes. This contrast helps create the feeling that the world around Sophie changes along with her internal state. For example, when she feels hope or finds a new clue, the surrounding world becomes brighter and more saturated, and in moments of despair and fear, it becomes darker and more disturbing. These changes help players better understand the heroine's emotional state and feel it themselves.
Each scene in the game emphasizes the dark and mystical atmosphere, in which elements of reality and surrealism collide. The use of unique visual effects, such as the play of light and shadow, helps convey the psychological experiences of the heroine. Dynamic lighting technologies and complex environment development create the impression that the player is in a living, albeit gloomy world, where every detail matters and affects the development of the plot. Elaborate weather effects, such as snow, rain and thick fog, add realism to the gameplay, enhancing immersion in the atmosphere of mysteries and dangers. Each element of the environment, be it a creaking floor or a dark corridor, creates a sense of threat and unpredictability, which makes the game especially tense.
The developers also added many small visual details that make the world feel alive and realistic. For example, the books in the library can be examined, and each one is linked to a specific memory or event that helps advance the plot. In ruined locations, you can find items left over from a previous life, which adds depth and history to the game’s world. These details make each location unique and allow players to learn more about Sophie’s world and her past, creating a strong connection between the story and the environment.
| GAME ENGINE |
Sophie: The Echoes uses a game engine Unreal Engine 5, which allows you to implement various game mechanics and create a truly deep atmosphere. Using Unreal Engine 5 allowed the developers to create more impressive visual effects, realistic lighting and complex animation, as well as high-quality visual effects and complex animation, as well as to implement deep atmospheric locations that make the game unique in the psychological thriller genre. The engine provides the ability to use advanced lighting technologies and detailed textures, which helps to convey the atmosphere of fear and anxiety that permeate the entire plot of the game.
The game's core mechanics include exploration, puzzle solving, and tactical combat using stealth elements. An important feature is the "Panic Attack" system, which allows players to experience Sophie's psychological pressure and fears during the most intense moments of the game. This mechanic makes the gameplay more realistic and emotionally charged, allowing players to better understand the difficulties the heroine faces and how she copes with them.
The game uses a variety of gameplay types, including stealth, exploration, and third-person shooter elements in combat scenes. Players must avoid enemies, solve puzzles, and use the environment to achieve their goals. Each level in the game is designed as a metaphor for stages in Sophie's journey, representing the physical and emotional obstacles she must overcome. For example, in one scene, players must navigate a destroyed building full of zombie soldiers to find evidence related to military experiments, while another scene requires players to explore a library, solving puzzles to unlock hidden information.
Special attention was paid to creating challenging puzzles that are integrated into the story and linked to Sophie’s memories. Players will need to use ingenuity and logic to solve these puzzles, and each one will help to unlock a new aspect of the story. These mechanics make the game not only action-packed, but also intellectually challenging, allowing for a varied gameplay and a deeper emotional connection with the heroine.
One of the unique mechanics is the ability to control Sophie's state through the "Panic Attack" system. When the heroine faces specific stressful situations, players need to control her breathing and actions to prevent a complete loss of control. This adds realism and makes the gameplay more intense, as players are not only struggling with external threats, but also with the character's internal fears. Stress and anxiety management becomes an important part of the game experience, allowing for a deeper understanding of the heroine's experiences and the ability to feel like they are in her shoes.
Another important feature of the game is the emphasis on interaction with the environment and the use of objects to achieve goals. For example, players can use furniture to create shelters, distract enemies with sounds, or find hidden objects that will help advance the plot. These elements make the gameplay more variable and allow players to choose their own style of play.
| DIFFERENT QUALITY MODES |
Minimum graphics settings
At minimum graphics settings Sophie: The Echoes Visual quality has been simplified to improve performance. Textures are rendered at low resolution, reducing detail in environments and characters. Shadows have softer, simpler edges, and reflections are generally absent or greatly simplified. Post-processing effects such as motion blur and global illumination are disabled. Lighting is implemented in a more static manner, reducing realism. Water and other surfaces reflect a limited number of scene elements, and animation of environmental effects such as leaves and wind is also simplified.
Maximum graphics settings
When selecting maximum graphics settings Sophie: The Echoes shows its full potential. High-quality textures create depth and realism in the environments and characters. Dynamic lighting and shadows with smooth transitions add depth and atmosphere to scenes. Reflections are displayed in real time, including accurate reflections of the environment on surfaces such as water and glass. Post-processing effects such as volumetric light rays, anti-aliasing and motion blur are applied, adding a cinematic feel to the gameplay. Environmental animation and effects such as smoke, fog and particle effects are also improved, making the game more lively and immersive.
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Z490 AORUS PROAX GIGABYTE Z590 VISION GIGABYTE Z690 AERO G GIGABYTE Z790 GAMING XAX MSI MPG Z790 Edge WiFi ASUS ROG Strix B650-A Gaming Wi-Fi ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Apex Encore |
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ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER OC ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900XT 20G |
| Multimedia equipment |
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@6400 CL30 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR5 7200 CL36 Kingston FURY Renegade 48GB DDR5 7200 CL36 Kingston FURY Renegade 48GB DDR5 8000 CL36 Kingston FURY Renegade Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD Kingston NV3 1TB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4
Case DeepCool CH510 WH SVO DeepCool LS720 WH Power supply unit Deepcool PX1200G 1200W |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 11 24H2 |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 566.03 WHQL AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.10.1 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes 1920x1080, 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 with ultra graphics quality settings without upscales.
| GPU TEST |
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 6600 or GeForce RTX 2070.
- Minimum FPS (25 frames): Provided by video cards of the Radeon RX 6600 XT or GeForce RTX 2060 level.
- Comfortable average FPS (60 frames): Possible with video cards of the Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 3070 level.
When resolved 2560x1440:
- Average FPS (25 frames): Reached on video cards of the level of Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2060.
- Minimum FPS (25 frames): Provided by video cards of the Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 3070 level.
- Comfortable average FPS (60 frames): Possible with video cards of the Radeon RX 7800 XT or GeForce RTX 4070 level.
When resolved 3840x2160:
- Average FPS (25 frames): Reached on video cards of the level of Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 4070.
- Minimum FPS (25 frames): Provided by video cards of the Radeon RX 7900 XT or GeForce RTX 4070 Ti level.
- Comfortable average FPS (60 frames): Possible with video cards of the GeForce RTX 4090 level.
| VIDEO MEMORY CONSUMPTION |
Testing of video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. The indicator was based on the results on video cards from AMD and NVIDIA with separate screen sizes 1920x1080, 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 with various anti-aliasing settings. By default, the graph displays the most current solutions. Other video cards are added and removed from the chart at the request of the reader.
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GameGPU
Resolution 1920x1080:
- Video cards with 8 GB of video memory: consume 6 GB
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 7 GB
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 7 GB
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 7 GB
Resolution 2560x1440:
- Video cards with 8 GB of video memory: consume 7 GB
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 7 GB
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 7 GB
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 8 GB
Resolution 3840x2160:
- Video cards with 8 GB of video memory: consume 8 GB
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 9 GB
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 9 GB
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 10 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 12 streams.
- Optimal loading: Maximally efficiently uses up to 8 threads.
| RAM TEST |
The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 9 13900K with 32 GB DDR5 6400 MHz pre-installed memory. All used RAM was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out 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 8 GB of video memory: consume 6 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 6 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 6 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 7 GB of RAM
Resolution 2560x1440:
- Video cards with 8 GB of video memory: consume 6 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 6 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 6 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 7 GB of RAM
Resolution 3840x2160:
- Video cards with 8 GB of video memory: consume 11 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 6 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 6 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 7 GB of RAM
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