Resident Evil Village AMD FidelityFX Performance IQ Review

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Ray Tracing Performance

Now we want to look at Ray Tracing performance in the game and compare low medium, and high levels.  For this one, we are now going to also include the GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition along with the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT.  We are going to show each one on separate graphs.  For this test, we are also going to show 1080p, 1440p, and 4K performance as well. 

For 1080p we will just show NO Ray Tracing and HIGH Ray Tracing.  But for 1440p and 4K we will also show LOW and MEDIUM settings also, so we can see the whole range of performance.  The quality setting represents the same setting on both GI and Reflections and also Lighting Reflections settings.  We are doing a manual run-through and have indoor and outdoor areas covered.

1080p

Resident Evil Village 1080p Radeon RX 6800 XT Ray Tracing performance graph

In this first graph, we are looking at the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT at 1080p.  We are comparing NO Ray Tracing and all settings on “HIGH” Ray Tracing.  You can see that without Ray Tracing performance averages 258FPS.  When we turn on HIGH Ray Tracing that drops to 132FPS which is still very playable, and well above 100FPS.  That’s a drop though of 49% in performance.  Therefore, turning on HIGH Ray Tracing caused the framerate to nearly drop in half.

Resident Evil Village 1080p Ray Tracing GeForce RTX 3080 performance graph

Now we are looking at the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 FE doing the same comparison. It starts out at 227FPS without Ray Tracing and drops to 147FPS with HIGH Ray Tracing.  That is a drop of 35% in performance.  That’s a whole lot less than the 49% drop experienced with the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT.  The game is very playable at these settings.

1440p

Resident Evil Village 1440p Radeon RX 6800 XT Ray Tracing performance graph

Now we are again looking at the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT but at 1440p.  We have now included LOW Ray Tracing, MEDIUM Ray Tracing and HIGH Ray Tracing so you see the whole gamut of settings performance.  Without Ray Tracing it’s at 202FPS, and at HIGH it’s at 113FPS which is still very playable.  Turning on LOW Ray Tracing drops performance 43%.  Turning on HIGH Ray Tracing drops performance 44%.  Between LOW and HIGH is only a 2% difference in performance.

Resident Evil Village 1440p GeForce RTX 3080 Ray Tracing performance graph

Now we are looking at the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 FE at 1440p with all the Ray Tracing settings.  It starts at 173FPS and on HIGH Ray Tracing drops to 123FPS which is very playable.  The drop-down to LOW Ray Tracing is 27% and the drop-down to HIGH is 29%.  This is much lower of a drop compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT.  The difference between LOW and HIGH is 2%. 

4K

Resident Evil Village 4K Radeon RX 6800 XT Ray Tracing performance graph

Now we are looking at the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT at 4K.  We start out at a very playable 106FPS and with HIGH Ray Tracing it’s still very playable at 80FPS!  The drop in performance turning on LOW Ray Tracing is 22%.  The drop going to HIGH Ray Tracing is 24%.  The difference between LOW and HIGH is only 3%.

Resident Evil Village 4K GeForce RTX 3080 Ray Tracing performance graph

Now we are looking at the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 FE at 4K.  We start out at 98FPS and end up at 85FPS with HIGH Ray Tracing. The game is very playable.  Turning on LOW Ray Tracing causes a drop of only 11%.  Turning on HIGH Ray Tracing causes a drop of only 13%.  The difference between LOW and HIGH is 2%.

Overall, then NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 FE had a lot less of a drop in performance or performance degradation turning on Ray Tracing compared to the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT.  Also, on both video cards, there was only a 2-3% performance difference between LOW and HIGH Ray Tracing settings.  Also, 4K performs very well on both cards with HIGH Ray Tracing, and this is great news. 

Brent Justicehttps://www.thefpsreview.com
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