Apex Legends - PC performance graphics benchmarks of Graphics Cards and Processors
| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
Release date: 4 February 2019
Genre: Action, RPG
developer: Respawn Entertainment
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Apex Legends is a battle royale game through Respawn's unique lens. Players will have eight Legends to choose from - colorful heroes with unique abilities and playstyles. The last surviving team of three Legends wins and takes all the glory. Among the Legends there are such extraordinary personalities as, for example, Bloodhound, a hunter who can track the recent activity of enemies on the map.
| 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 |
Apex Legends is supported Windows 7 / 8 and Windows 10.
The priority and primary graphics API for Apex Legends is DirectX 11.
| GAME ENGINE |
Apex Legends is based on the Titanfall Engine (modified Source). Source is a game engine developed by Valve Corporation and used by it to create its own computer games. It was first used in Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source, released in 2004.
Source is a game engine, therefore it contains a bunch of various components, including: a graphics engine, a physics engine, etc. One of the features of the engine is its character animation system, in particular, facial animation, which contains many tools for creating expressive facial expressions and accurately synchronizing the speech of actors with animation; The engine also features advanced gaming artificial intelligence, which can effectively control the player’s opponents or allies; the graphics engine was one of the first to use complex shader effects; In games on the engine, shader water was actively used, reflecting the surrounding world.
The physics engine is based on Havok. It allows you to calculate many physical objects, such as rigid bodies, flexible bodies, ropes, surfaces, etc. It is possible to create realistic vehicles, from cars to hovercrafts and helicopters. To calculate the behavior of a vehicle on the road or in the air, many parameters are used, for example, the adhesion of the wheels to the road, the weight of the car. To give realistic body movement, “rag doll” physics is used; pre-created animation can be mixed with real-time physics.
With the development of Source, it was added: HDR rendering, dynamic lighting and shading with the ability to self-shadow objects, soft shadows from objects (there is the ability to use traditional light maps), multi-core rendering for multi-core processors, and a developed particle system. In this game, the Source engine has been reworked. So, according to the technical director of the game, the Source engine has updated the rendering system, sound engine, scripting system, as well as the engine’s network code for a better connection.
| GRAPHICS SETTINGS |
Apex Legends has a wide range of graphics settings.
Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between the minimum and maximum graphics quality settings.
| DIFFERENT QUALITY MODES |
The difference between the various settings is visible to the naked eye.
| COMPARISON OF SMOOTHING MODES |
Activating smoothing completely eliminates all surface irregularities.
| Apex Legends Apex Legends |
Apex Legends lacks stars from the sky - the engine is quite outdated, and the picture itself seems somewhat grayish. But overall, visually the game is quite nice:
Well, then we will move directly to gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware.
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
Test bench No. 1 based on the Intel Socket 2011 platformv3 Test bench No. 2 based on the Intel Socket 2011 platform Test bench No. 3 based on the Intel Socket 1155 platform Test bench No. 4 based on the AMD Soket AM3+ platform Test bench No. 5 based on the Intel Socket 1150 platform |
| Multimedia equipment | Monitor Philips 241P6 |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 10 Pro |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 418.81 AMD Radeon Crimson Edition 19.2.1 |
| Monitoring program |
MSI Afterburner v4.6 FRAPS |
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes of 1920x1080, 2560x1600 and 3840x2160 at maximum graphics quality settings.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX video cards are provided by LLC Business Development Center.
| 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).
- Very high
When resolved 1920x1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 460 or GeForce GTX 1050 Ti level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon R9 Fury X or GeForce GTX 970. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions at the level of Radeon RX 480 or GeForce GTX 980 Ti.
When resolved 2560x1440 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon R9 290 or GeForce GTX 970. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 470 or GeForce GTX 1060. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be achieved by level solutions Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070 Ti.
When resolved 3840x2160 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 590 or GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be achieved by level solutions GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
| 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 and 2560x1440 with different 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.
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920x1080 a system with a video card with 4 gigabytes of onboard memory is 4000 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 6000 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 74100 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 7500 megabytes.
When resolved 2560x1440 a system with a video card with 4 gigabytes of onboard memory is 4000 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 6000 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 7500 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 8000 megabytes.
When resolved 3840x2160a system with a video card with 4 gigabytes of onboard memory is 4000 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 6000 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 7800 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 9100 megabytes.
| TEST CPU |
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 tests(by default, the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected).
- Very high
When using video cards NVIDIA an acceptable figure of at least 25 frames was shown by the FX 6300 or Core i 3 2100 processors, and an average FPS of at least 60 frames can be achieved by solutions of the level FX 6300 or Core i 3 2100.
When using video cards AMD processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames FX 6300 or Core i 3 2100, and an average FPS of at least 60 frames can be provided by solutions of the FX 6300 or Core i 3 2100.
- Very high
GameGPU
The game uses a maximum of 8 computing threads. The game uses 4 most effectively.
| RAM TEST |
The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 9 9900K with 32 GB DDR4 3200 MGz 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.
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920x1080 RAM consumption of a system by a video card with 4 gigabytes of onboard memory is 8700 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 7400 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 7400 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 7400 megabytes.
When resolved 2560x1440 RAM consumption of a system by a video card with 4 gigabytes of onboard memory is 10500 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 8600 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 8100 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 7600 megabytes.
When resolved 3840x2160 RAM consumption of a system by a video card with 4 gigabytes of onboard memory is 12300 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 10400 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 8400 megabytes and with 11 gigabytes 7700 megabytes.
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