Following up on last month's CPU-focused benchmarks, we're back to see how PlayerUnknown'south Battlegrounds performs on a massive range of graphics cards. Then far we know the game strongly favors Intel's hardware when information technology comes to CPU performance and only requires four cores if they are clocked at more than than 4GHz. That said, the vi and viii-cadre Ryzen CPUs also turned in respectable results despite the fact that PUBG under-utilizes them.

Moving on from our terminal round of testing, we accept an ballsy battle between Radeon and GeForce graphics cards. Earlier going any further, we should annotation that PUBG is an Nvidia supported championship and during the game's early access phase it heavily favored hardware from the green team.

For any reason, AMD almost always gets the rough end of the stick when it comes to hugely popular titles -- actually, the reason is money, and Nvidia but has more of it to throw at developers.

Having seen how successful PUBG was early on, Nvidia climbed on board and before long we started to see the GeForce logo announced on the game's loading screen. AMD has of course been optimizing its drivers for the game and nosotros've seen numerous releases over the past few months that address performance, just y'all tin can rest assured that Nvidia has paid to win this i.

To test GPU performance in PUBG we'll exist doing 60 second benchmark passes on the aforementioned map as before ("Miramar") and we'll report the 1% low along with the boilerplate frame rate from iii runs. Most of the testing volition exist washed using the ultra quality preset though nosotros realize serious players will use lower quality settings and nosotros'lI affect on those before the end of this article.

The latest AMD and Nvidia display drivers bachelor at the time of testing have been used and all graphics cards were tested on our standard GPU test rig. Within nosotros have a Core i7-8700K clocked at 5GHz with 32GB of DDR4-3200 memory.

That's all the important stuff, so without wasting any more time let's get to the results because there'south a boat load of them.

Benchmarks

Kicking things off, we have some real relics. Can you believe some of these models are 3 years one-time now? Even at 1080p, you'll all the same require some serious GPU firepower if you want to play PUBG using the ultra quality settings. For an boilerplate of around 60fps, gamers volition require an R9 Fury or GTX 980 graphics menu from the previous generation.

Some noteworthy observations here include the fact that the GTX 980 Ti decimates the Fury X when looking at the boilerplate frame rate, yet the 1% low figures are almost identical. The GTX 970 and R9 390X provided most the same functioning while the R9 380 beat the GTX 960 by a comfortable margin of 16%.

From the current generation lineup, for effectually 60fps gamers will crave the GTX 1060 6GB or perhaps the Radeon RX 580.

We then see a massive 32% or greater leap with the GTX 1070 and Vega 56 GPUs when looking at the average frame rate. However, we once again recorded very picayune improvement in the 1% low results and in fact hither the 1070 was only xi% faster than the 1060.