The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt v. 1.06 - PC performance graphics benchmarks of Graphics Cards

BASIC GAME INFORMATION

  

Well, almost a month has passed since the release of the game. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. During this period, four major patches and new drivers from AMD and NVIDIA were released for the game, which somewhat changed the performance of video cards in this project, both for the better and for the worse. The GEFORCE GTX 980 Ti video card was also released. Due to the new changes, we decided to conduct a new test of the game version 1.06. The test was conducted only for video adapters, since other performance indicators remained unchanged. Below we have presented the requirements for maximum configurations, following from today's testing:

 

TEST PART

GPU test

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. The average and minimum FPS were taken as the performance indicator. Below is a video of the test segment, which is similar to our test 1.04:    

Our video cards were tested at separate screen resolutions of 1920x1080, 2560x1600 and 3840x2160 at high and maximum graphics quality settings, acceptable The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with Gameworks technologies enabled and disabled. AMD CrossFireX and SLI have finally received proper support from the game, both in terms of performance and scalability. For anyone interested, we are posting the save file of our test segment.

NVIDIA Gameworks technologies are disabled

Testing at 1920x1200 resolution

 

Testing at high quality settings 1920x1080   

 

With these settings An acceptable FPS indicator was shown by video cards of the Radeon HD 7850 or GeForce GTX 660 level. The optimal solutions would be the Radeon R9 270 or GeForce GTX 760.

 

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 

  

With these settings An acceptable FPS indicator was shown by video cards of the Radeon HD 7970 or GeForce GTX 680 level. The optimal solutions would be the Radeon R9 280X or GeForce GTX 960.

Testing at 2560x1600 resolution

 

Testing at high quality settings 2560x1600

 

With these settings An acceptable FPS indicator was shown by video cards of the level of Radeon HD 7950 or GeForce GTX 680. The optimal solutions will be Radeon HD 7970 or GeForce GTX 770.

  

Testing at maximum quality settings 2560x1600 

 

With these settings An acceptable FPS indicator was shown by video cards of the Radeon HD 7990 or GeForce GTX 780 level. The optimal solutions will be Radeon HD 7990 or GeForce GTX TITAN.

Testing at resolution 3840x2160

  

Testing at high quality settings 3840x2160 

 

With these settings An acceptable FPS indicator was shown by video cards of the Radeon R9 290 or GeForce GTX 780 Ti level. The optimal solutions will be the Radeon R9 290X or GeForce GTX 980.

 

Testing at maximum quality settings 3840x2160 

 

With these settings An acceptable FPS indicator was shown by video cards of the level of Radeon HD 7990 or GeForce GTX 780 SLI. The optimal solutions will be Radeon R9 295X2 or GeForce GTX 780 SLI.

NVIDIA Gameworks technologies included

Testing at 1920x1200 resolution

 

Testing at high quality settings 1920x1080   

 

With these settings An acceptable FPS indicator was shown by video cards of the Radeon HD 7950 or GeForce GTX 760 level. The optimal solutions would be the Radeon R9 280X or GeForce GTX 680.

 

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 

  

With these settings An acceptable FPS indicator was shown by video cards of the Radeon R9 280X or GeForce GTX 960 level. The optimal solutions will be the Radeon R9 290 or GeForce GTX TITAN.

Testing at 2560x1600 resolution

 

Testing at high quality settings 2560x1600

 

With these settings An acceptable FPS indicator was shown by video cards of the Radeon R9 280X or GeForce GTX 780 level. The optimal solutions would be Radeon R9 290 or GeForce GTX TITAN.

 

Testing at maximum quality settings 2560x1600 

 

With these settings acceptable FPS indicator was shown by video cards of the level Radeon R9 290 or GeForce GTX TITAN. The optimal solutions would be Radeon HD 7990 or GeForce GTX 690.

Testing at resolution 3840x2160

  

Testing at high quality settings 3840x2160 

 

With these settings An acceptable FPS indicator was shown by video cards of the level of Radeon HD 7990 or GeForce GTX 780 SLI. The optimal solutions will be Radeon R9 295X2 or GeForce GTX 970 SLI.

  

Testing at maximum quality settings 3840x2160 

 

With these settings acceptable FPS indicator was shown by video cards of the level Radeon R9 295X2 or GeForce GTX 780 SLI. The optimal solutions would be GeForce GTX 980 SLI and higher.

Processor performance and memory measurements were not included in this test, since their indicators remained virtually unchanged from testing game version 1.04. And based on testing version 1.06, there is one bad and two good news:

The first news is bad - performance relative to the previous testing of version 1.04 has dropped depending on the settings (it was not for nothing that we chose the same test segment as one of the most graphically difficult places in the game). Apparently the developers are trying to improve the graphics, which does not have the best effect on the game’s performance.

The second - AMD CrossFireX and SLI have finally been brought to fruition in the game and have good scalability. It is also worth noting that with the new patch, anti-aliasing when using AMD CrossFireX no longer needs to be disabled.

The third is the most joyful for owners of NVIDIA video cards based on the Kepler architecture. The performance of these solutions has increased significantly and is no longer so contrasting in comparison with the latest Maxwell series.

It is also worth special mentioning the tandem of two The GeForce GTX 980 Ti SLI delivers incredible 4K performance, delivering the most comfortable and smooth gaming experience of any solution on the market.