4K Performance
We will start with 4K performance in Resident Evil 3. We are going to show both DirectX 12 and DirectX 11 performance because they are slightly different. For 4K performance, we will compare the ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 FE and AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT video cards.
Note that all of our game settings for every test here on out are at the highest in-game settings as shown on the Graphics Menu pages. We have Image Quality at 100%. Anti-Aliasing is at FXAA+TAA, Texture Quality is at High 8GB and Anisotropic Filtering is at 16X AF. Mesh Quality is at Max, Shadow Quality is at Max, Shadow Cache is On, Screen Space Reflections are On, Subsurface Scattering is On, Volumetric Lighting Quality is High. Particle Lighting Quality is High, Ambient Occlusion is HBAO+, Bloom is On, Lens Flare is On, Motion Blur is On, Depth of Field is On, Lens Distortion is On + Chromatic Aberration. We also have FidelityFX CAS + Upscaling turned On.
Here is our custom performance run-through we are using in our testing.
DX12
Starting with DX12 and the highest in-game settings plus FidelityFX CAS you can see the average FPS results above. The ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 Ti takes a huge performance lead, as we’d expect. It’s 33% faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 FE. It’s 63% faster than the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT. At 86FPS average it is very playable in this game at 4K and maximum settings.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 FE is no slouch either, it provides over 60FPS at 4K with the highest settings. This game was playable with this video card at these settings. It stands then that a GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER would also be playable and provide even faster performance than the RTX 2080 FE. Factory overclocked video cards would also add more performance. So from RTX 2080 and up, 4K is playable at the highest in-game settings.
The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is unfortunately not playable at 4K. Though the average is in the lower 50’s, there were times it dropped into the upper 30’s or lower 40’s while gaming. There was stuttering, and just not as smooth of performance as the GeForce RTX 2080 FE had. In order to make the Radeon RX 5700 XT playable at 4K you will have to lower graphics settings, and we suggest starting with settings that remove the burden on VRAM. This will smooth out the game.
DX11
We wanted to also show DX11 performance in this game because according to our testing DX11 performance is actually a little higher than DX12. The ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is averaging 90FPS at 4K with the highest settings under DX11. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 FE is at 68FPS and the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT is at 54FPS.
Even though numbers are slightly up, the same pattern is true, however. The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti provides the best 4K experience. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 FE and up also appears able to handle 4K at the highest settings. The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT however, is not. You will still need to reduce quality settings at 4K to make it playable.