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An in-game screenshot of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl performance analysis—Everyone gets ray tracing but the entry fee is high

By Nick Evanson Published

Zone Rays Upscaling is a must; even frame generation will be needed for many gaming PCs.

Zone Rays
Screenshot of Starfield: Shattered Space
Starfield: Shattered Space performance analysis—New DLC, new patch, same old frame rates

By Nick Evanson Published

New World FPS It seems that Morrowind was more than just an inspiration for the DLC's design.

New World FPS
Screenshot from Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 showing the main character standing in front of a landing craft
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 performance analysis—Blurry upscaling, mushy graphics, and so-so frame rates

By Nick Evanson Published

Tyrannic FPS There's no ray tracing whatsoever, so you can't blame the middling performance on that.

Tyrannic FPS
A screenshot from Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws, showing an open-world vista from a city location
Star Wars Outlaws performance analysis: Ray traced galaxies far, far away really, really demand upscaling and frame generation

By Nick Evanson Published

Galactic FPS There's a colossal range of graphics options to tweak, so most gaming PCs can run the game well enough. Well, kind of.

Galactic FPS
A screenshot from Gray Zone Warfare, showing the player flying over the top of waterlogged fields in a helicopter
Gray Zone Warfare delivers the odd hitch and stutter, but overall it's a reasonable Early Access ride

By Andy Edser Published

Tactical Move Some early niggles for sure, but otherwise our testing has been a fairly smooth experience.

Tactical Move
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora screenshots from the early game.
If Alan Wake 2 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora are a glimpse of what games will look like in 2024, sign me up

By Jacob Ridley Published

Makeover Mega detailed scenes lit by ever-increasingly more accurate lighting. That's a mouth-watering combo.

Makeover
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora screenshots from the early game.
I tried to melt AMD's top GPU with Avatar: Frontier of Pandora's unobtanium graphics mode

By Jacob Ridley Published

Good luck, RDA And I would've got away with it if it wasn't for the red team's own frame generation.

Good luck, RDA
Starfield screenshots with different upscaling modes enabled.
Starfield's DLSS patch shows that even in an AMD-sponsored game Nvidia is still king of upscaling

By Jacob Ridley Published

🚀 Starfield officially supports DLSS now, with Frame Generation and Reflex, and it's better for it.

🚀
Alan Wake writing
For such a gorgeous game Alan Wake 2 runs surprisingly well on budget graphics cards

By Jacob Ridley Published

Cheap thrills This incredibly pretty game scales down to cheaper GPUs pretty well, actually.

Cheap thrills
Alan Wake 2's main protagonist up-close.
You can run Alan Wake 2 on a 10-series or older graphics card, but you definitely shouldn't

By Jacob Ridley Published

Did I stutter? I've stuck a GTX 1080 in our test bench and I just cannot get anywhere close to passable performance.

Did I stutter?
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