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Control remains one of the best showcases for ray tracing By Jarred Walton, James Archer published 1 January 21 RTX On And even without ray tracing enabled, you'll need a pretty beefy graphics card for higher settings and resolutions.
Borderlands 3 system requirements, settings, benchmarks, and performance analysis By Jarred Walton, James Archer published 20 September 19 Big guns The latest tale from the Borderlands starts off easy on hardware, but you'll need to bring the big guns for higher resolutions.