Star Wars Outlaws
Star Wars Outlaws was released to the PC in August of 2024 and is based on the Snowdrop engine. This is another game that utilizes ‘ray tracing’ always on and enabled by default with RTX Direct Illumination support and DLSS Ray Reconstruction. This game uses ray-traced global illumination, volumetric effects, and supports DLSS and FSR. We test in an open-world outdoor environment using a manual run-through inside a settlement.
Native Resolution
The first graph below is at the “Ultra” quality preset, the second graph is at the “Medium” quality preset at 1080p.
Star Wars Outlaws is very demanding, and running this game at “Ultra” settings at 1080p at Native Resolution is not playable on the GeForce RTX 5050. It produces 46FPS average with 1% Lows in the lower 30s. The GeForce RTX 5050 is 8% slower than the GeForce RTX 4060, but 50% faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 and 5% faster than the Radeon RX 7600.
Moving this game down to the “Medium” quality setting allows it to be playable on the GeForce RTX 5050 with 70FPS average and 1% Lows in the upper 50s. The GeForce RTX 5050 is 9% slower than the GeForce RTX 4060, but 52% faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 and 7% faster than the Radeon RX 7600.
We did not include DLSS Upscaling performance in this game because it appears that turning it on actually either did not provide a performance increase or lowered the performance. This might be due to the feature of Ray Reconstruction, which actually slows things down on these slower GPUs, and makes DLSS Upscaling not really provide a performance increase on Quality Mode. Not using DLSS Ray Reconstruction may help performance, but image quality does suffer. Overall, to make this game look best, your best bet will be simply lowering the in-game quality preset rather than enabling Upscaling at 1080p.
Discussion (4 replies)
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Seems like a particularly hard sell when the 50-series' biggest party trick is at its least useful when the base framerate is a little tenuous.
The 130w/8GB combo is also kind of harsh. That's high enough draw that going for the modern card on an efficiency basis (while it will help a bit) won't be as dramatic an effect as you might like; and if you hit a VRAM wall anywhere it will be in the same place you would on a 3050; and one of the 12GB 3060s will still be chugging along for 40 watts more.
OEMs love these low end SKUs.
- Yeah, this is basically a repurposed laptop chip that would otherwise be used to bump a $499 office laptop into the $799 "entry gaming laptop" market.
These cards absolutely have their place however, good way to stand up a hella basic gaming PC that will be thesus' shipped into something respectable over time.
If you know what you're doing though, used 3080's and 6800XT's are starting to hit the $299 and lower price point (while 3070 and 6700XT are at $250 and below) and you'd get a helluva lot more bang from your buck there.