The Old West: Northwood (Unreal Engine 5.1) - PC performance graphics benchmarks of Graphics Cards and Processors
| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
We have tested the game The Old West: Northwood at the highest graphics settings, on video cards from the GEFORCE RTX and RADEON RX series. The Old West: Northwood has full technology support Lumen on Unreal Engine 5.1
| NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY ASUS |
In our review we present you with motherboards ROG MAXIMUS Z790. We use this motherboard as a test bench for testing new generations of processors Intel.
This time the company's new video card is participating in our test. ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 OC. ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4080 OC Edition is built on GPU AD103 with 9728 CUDA cores. Test this video card on our website.
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.
This time the company's top video card is participating in our test. ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC. The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is based on the AD104 GPU and features 7680 CUDA cores and 12GB of GDDR6X memory. Test this video card on our website.
This time the company's top video card is participating in our test. ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition 20GB, kindly provided to us by the company ASUS.. This video card is based on the RDNA 3 architecture, operates at a frequency of 2500 MHz and has 20 gigabytes of video memory. Test this video card on our website.
This time the company's top video card is participating in our test. ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 DUAL OC. Test this video card on our website.
| NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY DEEPCOOL |
This time our test involves a case from the company DeepCool CH510WH is a sleek and minimalist mid-tower case with excellent component compatibility and extensive cooling support for a truly versatile build.
Also in our test this time we have a premium class SVO. DeepCool LS720WH for processors. DeepCool LS720 WH provides maximum cooling efficiency and low noise levels, as well as a sophisticated design.
| NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY MSI |
Now participating in our test MSI GEFORCE RTX 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24GB. This video card is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, operates at a frequency of 2750 MHz, has 16384 stream processors and 24 gigabytes of video memory
| NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY GIGABYTE |
In our review we present you with motherboards GIGABYTE Z790 GAMING XAX. We use these motherboards as test benches for testing new generations of processors Intel.
This time the company's top video card is participating in our test. AORUS Radeon RX 7900 XTX ELITE 24G. This video card is based on the RDNA 3 architecture, operates at a frequency of 3000 MHz and has 24 gigabytes of video memory. Its testing on our website.
| NEW, SUPPLIED FOR TEST BY KINGSTON |
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 and 32 GB DDR5 7200 Kingston FURY Renegade. And for game tests we use an external Kingston XS2000 Portable SSD 1TB..
| 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 Old West: Northwood supported Windows 10/11.
The priority and main graphics API for The Old West: Northwood is DX 12.
| GAME ENGINE |
Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is the latest update to the popular game engine developed by Epic Games. It is a landmark product for game developers and content creators, offering groundbreaking technologies such as Nanite and Lumen that significantly enhance the level of realism and quality in virtual reality games and applications.
Lumen is a fully dynamic global illumination system that dramatically improves photorealism and simplifies the process of creating scenes.
Lumen technology
Lumen is a system for creating realistic lighting in real time. This is a revolutionary approach that allows developers to no longer rely on static lightmaps and "bake" lighting for their scenes.
Key benefits of Lumen include:
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Dynamic Lighting: Lumen can change on the fly, allowing developers to easily make changes to scenes without having to re-bake lightmaps. This opens up possibilities for dynamic weather, time of day, and other effects.
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Photorealism: Lumen uses ray tracing and surface global illumination (SGI) technologies to create lighting that behaves as it should in the real world. This allows you to create highly realistic scenes with rich and complex lighting effects.
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Ease of use: Lumen eliminates the need for complex and time-consuming lighting setup processes that were common in previous versions of Unreal Engine. Developers can focus on creating content rather than tweaking the finer points of lighting.
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Scalability: Lumen runs on both high-end hardware that supports ray tracing, and on less powerful hardware where it uses technologies that do not require hardware support for ray tracing.
Working with Lumen in Unreal Engine 5 quite straightforward. Developers don't have to tweak lighting or bake light maps for every scene. Instead, they simply place lights in the scene and Lumen automatically handles all the lighting calculations.
Lumen can react to changes in the scene in real time, so dynamic effects such as movement of light sources, effects on the environment (such as moving objects), or changes in weather and time of day can be easily incorporated into the game without any prior planning lighting.
Lumen and Nanite: Partners in Unreal Engine 5
Unreal Engine 5 also includes Nanite technology, which allows you to create incredibly detailed scenes with billions of polygons without having to manually optimize each model. This means developers can create more detailed and realistic scenes than ever before.
Lumen and Nanite work together to create the most realistic and detailed scenes possible. Lumen provides dynamic, realistic lighting for every polygon in the scene, while Nanite provides detail to those polygons. This combined use of the two technologies allows developers to create scenes that look like real places rather than computer models.
Unreal Engine 5 and its innovative Lumen lighting technology greatly enhance the potential for creating realistic and immersive virtual worlds. They offer developers the flexibility and power needed to create more realistic and dynamic scenes, making it easier to set up and optimize lighting. Together with Nanite technology, UE5 sets a new standard for the gaming industry and virtual content creation.
| 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 |
| Sponsored video cards |
Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24G MSI GEFORCE RTX 3080 SUPRIM X 12 GB ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC ASUS TUF Gaming GEFORCE RTX 4080 OC ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24G |
| Multimedia equipment |
Monitor Philips 326M6VJRMB/00 Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 power supply 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@7600 CL36 Kingston FURY Renegade Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD MPG CORELIQUID K240 housing Case DeepCool CH510 WH SVO DeepCool LS720 WH |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake) |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 536.23 WHQL AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.5.1 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes 1920x1080, 2560x1440 и 3840x2160 with maximum graphics quality settings. Video cards with 8 and 10 gigabytes were not tested, because the frame rate on them at all settings is near zero and they are catastrophically lacking in memory.
| 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.
- Photoreal
When resolved 1920x1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 7900XT FSR or GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 7900 XTX FSR or GeForce RTX 4080.
When resolved 2560x1440 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level GeForce RTX 4070 Ti DLSS. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level GeForce RTX 4080 DLSS
When resolved 3840x2160 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level GeForce RTX 4090 DLSS.
| 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
When resolved 1920x1080 video memory consumption of video cards с 12 gigabytes 12 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 12 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 13 gigabyte .
When resolved 2560x1440 video memory consumption for video cards with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 13 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 14 gigabyte .
When resolved 3840x2160 video memory consumption for video cards with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 15 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 17 gigabyte .
| 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.
- Photoreal
When using video cards NVIDIA processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames per second Ryzen 3 3100 or Core i 3 10100.
When using video cards AMDprocessors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames per second Ryzen 3 3100 or Core i 3 10100.
- Photoreal
With tracing enabled, the game can already load up to 16 threads. Uses 12 threads as efficiently as possible.
| 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.
- Photoreal
GameGPU
When resolved 1920x1080 RAM consumption for video cards with 12 gigabytes 13 ggigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabyte, with 24 gigabytes 9 gigabyte .
When resolved 2560x1440 RAM consumption for video cards with 12 gigabytes 14 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 9 gigabyte .
When resolved 3840x2160 RAM consumption for video cards with 12 gigabytes 19 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 9 gigabyte .
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