Gameplay Performance
We are going to focus on the 4K gameplay performance with the EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming video card. We will include DLSS and FSR performance on the same graph in the games that are supported. We will use DLSS on NVIDIA GPUs and FSR on AMD GPUs. Ray Tracing performance will be shown on a separate page. For video card comparisons we are using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition video card and an AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT video card.
F1 2022
F1 2022 was released on June 28th, 2022 on the PC and uses Codemasters Ego engine. The game supports Ray Tracing, DLSS, AMD FidelityFX, and FSR. We are going to run the game with the highest quality settings of “Ultra High” and TAA+FidelityFX. We will enable DLSS and FSR as needed at the Quality setting for both. We will utilize the built-in benchmark in the Imola track, in dry conditions with a far chasing cam.
In F1 2022 we are running at 4K with the highest in-game settings and TAA turned on. The EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming video card is more than playable at these settings, allowing the highest and best experience at 4K in this game. It is faster than the Founders Edition card by 2.2% and faster than the Radeon RX 6900 XT by 12%. Overclocking improves performance by 4%. In addition, we can enable DLSS which improves performance on it by 26%. The framerates are above 100FPS on all the video cards, but only the RTX 3090 Ti cards maintain above 120Hz, and only the EVGA overclocked card reaches the magic 140Hz.
Dying Light 2
Dying Light 2 was released in February 2022 on the PC and uses Techland’s C-Engine. The game supports Ray Tracing, DLSS and FSR. We use the built-in preset to set “HIGH QUALITY” which sets the highest game graphics, without Ray Tracing. We manually enable DX12 and ASYNC Compute. For our benchmark, we are using a custom manual run-through at the end of the game hopping between rooftops, as well as free-roaming on the ground city level, as well as a forested area, in the daylight.
In Dying Light 2 we are running the game at 4K with the highest in-game settings sans Ray Tracing. The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti based video cards are the only ones able to hit above 60FPS at 4K. The EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming is 2% faster than the Founders Edition, and 17% faster than the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT. Overclocking improves performance by 5%. We can also enable DLSS which improves performance by 46% and brings performance into the 90s.
Forza Horizon 5
Forza Horizon 5 was released on PC in November of 2021 and it uses the ForzaTech game engine. For our evaluation, we raise the in-game graphic settings beyond the “Extreme” preset to the maximum game settings. In addition to the “Extreme” preset we raise SSAO Quality to Ultra, Reflection Quality to Extreme, SSR Quality to Ultra. We also disable MSAA and use FXAA. We test AMD FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) performance from the Resolution Scaling option. We utilize the built-in benchmark for testing.
In Forza Horizon 5 we are running the game at 4K with the highest custom in-game settings and TAA. The EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming is able to provide a very smooth and playable experience in this game near 80FPS. It performs nearly the same as the Founders Edition in this game, and is also on par with the Radeon RX 6900 XT. Overclocking the video card improves performance by 4%.
Far Cry 6
Far Cry 6 was released in October of 2021 and uses the Dunia Engine. We utilize the built-in benchmark for testing. We have the HD Texture pack installed and turned on. We utilize the “Ultra” graphics preset which sets all options to the highest game settings. This game supports FSR upscaling.
In Far Cry 6 we are running the game at 4K and the highest possible settings with HD Textures. This game is very smooth and playable on the EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming. It performs the same as the Founders Edition but is 8% faster than the Radeon RX 6900 XT. Overclocking improves performance by 4%. We can also enable FSR in this game which on the EVGA card improves performance by 28%. This puts performance into the 110+ FPS range.
Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 was released in December of 2020 and uses the REDengine 4. We have the game patched to version 1.52 and perform a long manual run-through driving in the game’s open world. We test using the Graphics Preset option to set graphics settings, mainly “Ultra”. This game supports DLSS and FSR.
In Cyberpunk 2077 we are running the game at 4K and the “Ultra” graphics preset, sans Ray Tracing. This game is so demanding that even with the EVGA card overclocked it is still not playable. The only way to make this game playable is either lower the in-game quality preset or even better just enable DLSS on the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti based video cards. This brings performance up into the mid-50s average. The EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming is 4% faster than the Founders Edition and 31% faster than the Radeon RX 6900 XT. Overclocking improves performance by 6%. Enabling DLSS improves performance by 47%.
Watch Dogs Legion
Watch Dogs Legion was released on the PC in October of 2020 and uses the Disrupt game engine. We utilize the built-in benchmark for testing. We have the HD Texture pack installed and enabled for testing. We use the built-in graphics preset of “Ultra” for testing. This game supports DLSS upscaling.
In Watch Dogs Legion we are running the game at 4K with the highest in-game settings sans Ray Tracing. The EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming video card is able to provide a smooth and playable gameplay experience in this game at those settings. It performs similar to the Founders Edition but is 10% faster than the Radeon RX 6900 XT. Overclocking it improves performance by 4%. Enabling DLSS improves performance by 35%.