The Division test GPU 2016

Release date: March 8, 2016
Genre: MMOG, TPS, LARPG
developer: Massive Entertainment
Publisher: Ubisoft

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The plot of the game tells about a terrible virus that hit New York. One by one, all services failed - within a matter of days, without water and food, the community plunged into chaos. In view of the current situation, the Division, a detachment of specially trained agents, was activated. Members of this unit lived among ordinary people, trained to act independently in extreme cases. While fighting to save the community, Division agents find themselves embroiled in a grand conspiracy. Now they must not only fight the terrible virus, but also confront the threat behind its appearance. When everything collapses, the time comes for your mission.

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.

Tom Clancy's The Division is supported by major operating systems Windows, which includes Windows 7 and Windows 8/10. Other operating systems are not currently supported by developers and will not be supported. 

The priority and main graphics API for Tom Clancy's The Division is DirectX 11.  Support was also recently added DirectX 12.

Tom Clancy's The Division is based on a new game engine called Snowdrop. In the engine architecture, an innovative solution is a scripting system using “nodes”. These “nodes” are responsible for everything (artificial intelligence, interface, animation).

This makes the engine very easy to learn and provides more features. The engine SDK uses an editor interface that can be easily customized to suit your needs. The engine contains many different tools that are very convenient to use. According to the developers, the engine is very simple and interesting.

Tom Clancy's The Division has a very wide range of graphic settings. We have access to both basic and advanced settings variations. NVIDIA proprietary technologies such as shadows and HBAO+ are not available in basic mode and must be selected separately.

Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between the minimum, medium and maximum graphics quality settings. 

The difference between the settings is practically unchanged.

Anti-aliasing in the game almost completely eliminates all “roughness” of surfaces.

Well, compared to the last Tom Clancy's The Division Beta, the graphics in the game have remained virtually unchanged. And if you took part in past beta tests, then you know very well what this project is like.

Tom Clancy's The Division supports several advanced shadow technologies from NVIDIA ShadowWorks:

- NVIDIA HBAO+ (Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion) – advanced global shading algorithm;

- PCSS (Percentage Closer Soft Shadows) – creating soft shadows that blur across the world away from the object casting the shadow;

- and NVIDIA HFTS (Hybrid Frustum Traced Shadows) is the latest NVIDIA GameWorks pool technique.

NVIDIA HFTS is a technique that allows you to create detailed, geometrically correct shadows close to objects while creating soft shadows (see the shadows of the wheel spokes in the screenshot below). The new technique is an extension of the PCSS technique and uses the same principles as Ray Tracing. This approach allows you to combat aliasing artifacts (“ladders”), the effects of objects “hovering above the surface,” render penumbra more correctly, and more. 

Also, NVIDIA provided the recommended video adapter configuration for comfortable gaming:

Next, we will move directly to gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware.   

Test of the release version of the game

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 ASUS PQ321QE
Software configuration
Operating system	Windows 10 Pro
Graphics driver	Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 364.47 AMD Radeon Crimson Edition 16.2.1
Monitoring program	MSI Afterburner v4.2 FRAPS

   

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 the test segment:

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 the test segment:   

Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes of 1920x1080, 2560x1600 and 3840x2160 with very high and maximum graphics quality settings allowed by Tom Clancy's The Division. AMD CrossFireX is currently partially supported by the game. SLI works very well with the latest drivers in the game.

Initially it was planned to test it in a gaming benchmark, but later it turned out that sometimes it does not adequately produce the final result, so its use was ultimately abandoned. Also regarding the test segment of video cards, the weather and time of day in the game are dynamic, which distorts the final result (it is almost impossible to achieve identical conditions), so I had to choose a place where the environment does not affect FPS.

Testing at very high quality settings 1920x1080 

 

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon HD 7850 or GeForce GTX 750 Ti level showed acceptable FPS. 

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 

  

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon HD 7850 or GeForce GTX 760 level showed acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions would be Radeon R7 370 or GeForce GTX 950. 

Testing at the highest quality settings 1920x1080 + NVIDIA technology

  

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon R7 370 or GeForce GTX 680 level showed an acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions would be the Radeon HD 7950 or GeForce GTX 960. 

Testing at very high quality settings 2560x1440

 

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon HD 7850 or GeForce GTX 950 level showed acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions would be Radeon R7 370 or GeForce GTX 950.

Testing at maximum quality settings 2560x1440

  

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon HD 7870 or GeForce GTX 960 level showed acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions would be Radeon HD 7970 or GeForce GTX 780.   

Testing at the highest quality settings 2560x1440+ NVIDIA technologies

  

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon R9 280X or GeForce GTX 780 Ti level showed acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions would be Radeon HD 7990 or GeForce GTX 970.   

Testing at very high quality settings 3840x2160

 

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon R9 29X or GeForce GTX 970 level showed an acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions would be Radeon R9 290 or GeForce GTX 980.  

Testing at maximum quality settings 3840x2160

 

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon R9 Nano or GeForce GTX 780 SLI level showed acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions will be Radeon R9 Fury X or GeForce GTX 980 Ti. 

Testing at the highest quality settings 3840x2160+ NVIDIA technologies  

   

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon R9 FuryX CF or GeForce GTX 970 SLI level showed acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions will be Radeon R9 FuryX CF or GeForce GTX 980 SLI.  

Testing of video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. The indicator was based on results on top video cards from AMD and NVIDIA with separate screen sizes 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 with different anti-aliasing settings.

Testing at maximum memory quality settings GPU

 

The recommended amount of video memory usage for a resolution of 1920x1080 will be 2048 MB of video memory, for a resolution of 2560x1440 - 3076 MB of video memory and for a resolution of 3840x2160 about 4096 MB of video memory. 

We tested processor dependence on 16 models of basic configurations that are relevant today. The test was carried out in those places where the value of the video card for the game is minimal and its load was less than 99%, this time at a resolution of 1920x1080.

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 

The processor performance in the game is sufficient for comfortable values.

Loading of processor coresat maximum quality settings 1920x1080 Intel% 

 

Loading of processor cores at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 AMD% 

 

Tom Clancy's The Division uses up to 16 computing threads.

The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 7 5960X@4.6 GHz with 32 GB DDR4 2400 MGz pre-installed memory. The entire used operational memory was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various test benches without launching third-party applications (browsers, etc.).

Testing the game's RAM consumption at various quality settings 

 

As we can see, with various quality settings, the amount of RAM consumed in Tom Clancy's The Division is within 3000 megabytes.

Testing system RAM consumption  

 

If you have a system with 6 gigabytes, Tom Clancy's The Division consumes all 5.5 gigabytes of RAM. In the presence of a system with 8 gigabytes, the RAM consumption of all RAM was 6 gigabytes. With a 16 GB system, the total memory consumption was almost 7 GB. And with 32 gigabytes of RAM, the system consumes 7.5 gigabytes of RAM.  

Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes of 1920x1080, 2560x1600 and 3840x2160 with maximum graphics quality settings (game default maximum). SLI и AMD CrossFireX in the game only works in DirectX 11.

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 DirectX 11

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon RX 460 or GeForce GTX 950 level showed an acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions would be video cards of the Radeon R9 380X or GeForce GTX 780 level.

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 DirectX 12

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon RX 460 or GeForce GTX 950 level showed an acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions would be video cards of the Radeon R9 380X or GeForce GTX 780 level.

Testing at maximum quality settings 2560x1440 DirectX 11

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon R9 280X or GeForce GTX 770 level showed acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions would be video cards of the Radeon RX 480 or GeForce GTX 980 Ti level.

Testing at maximum quality settings 2560x1440 DirectX 12

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon R9 280X or GeForce GTX 780 level showed acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions would be video cards of the Radeon R9 480 or GeForce GTX 980 Ti level.

Testing at maximum quality settings 3840x2160 DirectX 11

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon R9 290X or GeForce GTX 980 level showed acceptable FPS. The optimal solutions will be video cards of the level GeForce GTX 1080 SLI and above.

Testing at maximum quality settings 3840x2160 DirectX 12

With these settings, video cards of the Radeon R9 290X or GeForce GTX 980 Ti level showed acceptable FPS. 

Testing of video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. The indicator was based on results on top video cards from AMD and NVIDIA with separate screen sizes 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 with different anti-aliasing settings.

Testing at maximum memory quality settings GPU

The recommended amount of video memory usage for a resolution of 1920x1080 will be 6144 MB of video memory, for a resolution of 2560x1440 - 6144 MB of video memory, and for a resolution of 3840x2160 about 6144 MB of video memory. 

We tested processor dependence on 16 models of basic configurations that are relevant today. 

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 DirectX 11 

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 DirectX 12  

Of course, there is an increase from DX12, but it is limited by graphics performance.

Loading of processor cores with maximum quality settings 1920x1080 Intel % 

Loading of processor cores with maximum quality settings 1920x1080 AMD % 

Tom Clancy's The Division uses up to 16 computing threads. Fully uses 8 cores.

The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 7 5960X@4.6 GHz with 32 GB DDR4 2400 MGz pre-installed memory. The entire used operational memory was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various test benches without launching third-party applications (browsers, etc.).

Testing the game's RAM consumption at various quality settings 

As we can see, with various quality settings, the amount of RAM consumed in Tom Clancy's The Division was in the range of 3000-4000 megabytes.

Testing system RAM consumption  

On an 8GB system, Tom Clancy's The Division consumed 6GB of RAM. In the presence of a system with 12 gigabytes, the RAM consumption of all RAM was 7.3 gigabytes. With a 16 GB system, the total memory consumption was almost 8 GB. And with 32 gigabytes of RAM, the system consumes 9 gigabyte of RAM.