The Callisto Protocol test RT-GPU/CPU
| BASIC INFORMATION ON THE GAME |
Year of construction: Dec 2. 2022
Genre: Action / Adventure / Horror
developer: Striking Distance Studios
Publishing house: KRAFTON Inc.
The events of The Callisto Protocol take place in the year 2320, in the Black Iron prison, located on the surface of Callisto, the moon of Jupiter. Something very strange is happening on the territory of the prison, and an attempt to figure out what is happening will lead the protagonist to unravel the terrible secrets of this space prison.
Testing of the later generation of graphics cards that support hardware ray tracing can be found at this link.
| NEW IN TESTS - GEFORCE RTX 4090 / Core i9 13900KF |
Our test now includes GBGIGABYTE GEFORCE RTX 4090 24GB, kindly provided to us by the company GIGABYTE .
Our test now includes ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition, kindly provided to us by the company ARTLINE. This video card is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, operates at a frequency of 2600 MHz, has 16384 stream processors and 24 gigabytes of video memory.
Also participating in our test Intel Core i9-13900KF, kindly provided to us by the company ARTLINE. At the moment, the top gaming processor in the Intel line.
In our test, this time the top video card of the company participates ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4080 OC Edition (ROG-STRIX-RTX4080-O16G-GAMING), courtesy of the company ASUS. This video card is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, operates at a frequency of 2750 MHz, has 9728 stream processors and 16 gigabytes of video memory.
| THE GRAFICAL PART |
In this review, we present a test of The Callisto Protocol game, which was tested on the current families of video cards GeForce RTX и RADEON RXthat support hardware ray tracing.
In this subsection of our review, the main graphical aspects of this game are revealed. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphics settings and the quality of the development of the main visual aspects.
| SUPPORTED OC AND GRAPHICS API |
The Callisto Protocol is only supported Windows 10/11.
The priority and primary graphics API for The Callisto Protocol is DirectX 11/12.
| GAME ENGINE |
The Callisto Protocol is based on the Unreal Engine 4 game engine developed and maintained by Epic Games.
Thanks to his work, each playthrough of the game is unique and inimitable, which increases the replayability of the game. The first game created on the engine - Unreal - appeared in 1998. Since then, various versions of this game engine have been used in over a hundred games, including Deus Ex, Dishonored, Lineage II, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Postal 2, the Brothers in Arms series, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, as well as in the well-known game series Unreal and Unreal Tournament from Epic Games themselves. Being adapted primarily for first-person shooters, the engine was also used to create games of other genres.
Written in the high-level C++ language, Unreal Engine 4 allows you to create games for most operating systems and platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Mac OS X, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, Wii, Dreamcast and Nintendo GameCube. In December, Mark Rein demonstrated Unreal Engine 3 on the iPod Touch and iPhone 3GS. In March 2010, the engine was demonstrated on the Palm Pre communicator based on the webOS mobile platform.
To simplify porting, the engine uses a modular system of dependent components: supports various rendering systems (Direct3D, OpenGL, Pixomatic; previously supported Glide API, S3 Metal, PowerVR SGL), sound playback (EAX, OpenAL, DirectSound3D; previously supported A3D), voice playback tools text, speech recognition (only for Xbox360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Windows, also planned for Linux and Mac), modules for networking and support for various input devices.
For online play, Windows Live, Xbox Live, and GameSpy technologies are supported, including up to 64 players (clients) at the same time. Despite the fact that the development tools do not officially include support for a large number of clients on a single server, the engine has been used to create MMORPG games. One of the most famous representatives of the genre, Lineage II, uses the Unreal Engine.
| ADVANCED GAME SETTINGS |
The Callisto Protocol has a wide range of graphic settings. We have both basic and advanced settings.
Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between the minimum and high graphics quality settings on video cards GEFORCE GTX и RADEON RX, which do not support hardware ray tracing.
| RT ON/OFF |
| DLSS/FSR |
| TECHNOLOGIES |
The graphics in The Callisto Protocol are at a fairly high level:
Well, then we will go directly to the gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware.
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
GIGABYTE Z590 VISION |
| multimedia equipment |
Power Supply Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR5 5600 CL40 Kingston Fury Beast |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake) |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 527.37 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenaline Edition 22.11.2 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
Our graphics cards have been tested at resolutions 1920x1080, 2560x1600, 3840x2160 with ultra graphics quality settings with and without ray tracing.
| GPU TEST |
In the test of video cards, 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 productive CPU in this game and is scaled to other processors, taking into account their testing on NVIDIA and AMD video cards.
- DX12 Ultra
- DX 12 Ultra+RT
With permission 1920x1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames will be able to provide solutions Radeon RX 6600 XT or GeForce RTX 2070.
With permission 2560x1440 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6700 or GeForce RTX 2060s. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames will be able to provide solutions Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080s.
With permission 3840x2160 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 XT or GeForce RTX 2060s. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 3080. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames will be able to provide solutions Radeon RX 6900 XT or GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
RT
With permission 1920x1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6700 or GeForce RTX 2070s. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames will be able to provide solutions Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 3070.
With permission 2560x1440 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 3070. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames will be able to provide solutions Radeon RX 6900 XT or GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
With permission 3840x2160 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 3070. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level GeForce RTX 4080. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames will be able to provide solutions GeForce RTX 4090.
| VIDEO RAM CONSUMPTION |
Testing of the video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. For the indicator, the results were taken on video cards from AMD and NVIDIA at resolutions 1920x1080, 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 with different anti-aliasing settings. By default, the graph displays the most up-to-date solutions. Other graphics cards are added and removed from the chart at the reader's request.
- DX11 Ultra
- DX 12 Ultra+RT
GameGPU
With permission 1920x1080 video memory consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes 4 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 4 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 4 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 5 gigabyte.
With permission 2560x1440 video memory consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 5 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 6 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 6 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 6 gigabyte.
With permission 3840x2160 video memory consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 6 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 7 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 7 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 7 gigabyte.
RT
With permission 1920x1080 video memory consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes 7 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 6 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 6 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 6 gigabyte.
With permission 2560x1440 video memory consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 7 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 7 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 7 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 7 gigabyte.
With permission 3840x2160 video memory consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 8 gigabyte.
| CPU TEST |
Testing was carried out at a resolution of 1920x1080. In the processor test, you can remove and add any positions of the processors. You can also select any tested video card from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the results of processor tests (the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected by default). Testing takes place on the most productive NVIDIA and AMD video cards and scales up to lower models.
- DX12 Ultra
- DX 12 Ultra+RT
When using video cards NVIDIA an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames per second was shown by processors Ryzen 5 3100 or Core i3 10100, and an FPS rate of at least 60 frames per second will be able to provide solutions of the level Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i5 10600.
When using video cards AMD an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames per second showed processors Ryzen 5 3100 or Core i3 10100 , and the FPS is at least 60 frames per second will be able to provide level solutions Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i5 10600.
RT
When using video cards NVIDIA an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames per second was shown by processors Ryzen 5 3100 or Core i3 10100, and an FPS rate of at least 60 frames per second will be able to provide solutions of the level Core i5 12600.
When using video cards AMD an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames per second showed processors Ryzen 5 3100 or Core i3 10100.
- DX12 Ultra
The game can download up to 12 threads. The game uses 8 threads as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The test was conducted on the base configuration 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 running extraneous applications (browsers, etc.). In the graphics, you can add and remove any resolutions and video cards as desired.
- DX12 Ultra
- DX 12 Ultra+RT
GameGPU
With permission 1920x1080 RAM consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes 11 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 11 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 11 gigabyte, with 24 gigabytes 10 gigabyte.
With permission 2560x1440 RAM consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes 11 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 11 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 11 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 10 gigabyte.
With permission 3840x2160 RAM consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes 11 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 11 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 11 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 10 gigabyte.
RT
With permission 1920x1080 RAM consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes 11 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 11 gigabyte, with 24 gigabytes 11 gigabyte.
With permission 2560x1440 RAM consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes 11 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 11 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 11 gigabyte.
With permission 3840x2160 RAM consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes 11 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 11 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 11 gigabyte.
Testing of the later generation of graphics cards that support hardware ray tracing can be found at this link.
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