Forspoken: PC Performance Benchmarks for Graphics Cards and Processors 2023

Written by mxshow2000 on 06 January 2024. Posted in Action / FPS / TPS

BASIC GAME INFORMATION

As part of our annual graphics card performance testing in 2023, we will focus on analyzing gaming performance using the highest available graphics quality for each game. This year, Core VRAM and RAM tests, as well as upscales, will not be taken into account. Our goal is to identify the most powerful graphics cards and determine their hierarchical positions in the context of games in 2023. This will be a comprehensive gaming benchmark focused on assessing real-world performance under the most demanding gaming conditions.

We continue our annual review cycle, which will culminate in the final determination of the fastest and most optimal gaming solutions among video cards for games released in 2023. In this review we focus on testing the game Forspoken.

NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY MSI

Our test now includes the MSI GEFORCE RTX 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24 GB .This video card is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, operates at a frequency of 2750 MHz, has 16384 stream processors and 24 gigabytes of video memory.

NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY ASUS

In our review, we present to you the ASUS ROG Strix B650-A Gaming WiFi motherboard . ROG Strix B650-A Gaming WiFi includes 4 DDR5 DIMM modules with a maximum capacity of up to 64 gigabytes and a frequency of up to 6400 MHz. For the file subsystem, the motherboard supports 3 M.2 PCIe 5.0/4.0 x4 slots and 4 SATA 6 Gb/s ports. You can directly view the testing of this motherboard on our website.

In our review, we present you ASUS Z790-A GAMING DDR4 motherboards . We use this motherboard as a test bench for testing new generations of Intel processors .

This time our test involves the top video card from ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC . The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is based on the AD104 GPU and features 7680 CUDA cores and 12GB of GDDR6X memory. Test this video card on our website.

This time our test involves the company's top-end video card ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition 20 GB . . This video card is based on the RDNA 3 architecture, operates at a frequency of 2500 MHz and has 20 gigabytes of video memory.

This time our test involves the new ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 OC video card . This video card is based on the RDNA 3 architecture, operates at a frequency of 3000 MHz and has 24 gigabytes of video memory.

NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY DEEPCOOL

This time we're testing the case from DeepCool CH510 WH - it's an elegant and minimalistic mid-tower case with excellent component compatibility and wide cooling power support for a truly versatile build.

Also participating in our test this time is the premium-class DeepCool LS720 WH for processors. DeepCool LS720 WH provides maximum cooling efficiency and low noise levels, as well as a sophisticated design.

NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY GIGABYTE

In our review, we present to you the GIGABYTE Z790 GAMING X AX motherboards . We use this motherboard as a test bench for testing new generations of Intel processors .

This time our test involves the company's top-end video card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC . Its testing on our website.

This time our test involves the company's top-end video card, AORUS Radeon RX 7900 XTX ELITE 24G. This video card is based on the RDNA 3 architecture, operates at a frequency of 3000 MHz and has 24 gigabytes of video memory. Its testing on our website.

NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY KINGSTON

In our review, we used RAM: 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Kingston FURY Renegade , 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 Kingston FURY Renegade , 32 GB DDR5 6000 Kingston FURY Renegade, 16 GB DDR4 4600 CL19 Kingston FURY Renegade and 32 GB DDR5 720 0 Kingston FURY Renegade . And for gaming tests we use an external Kingston XS2000 Portable SSD 1 TB ..

THE GRAFICAL PART

This subsection of our review highlights the main graphical aspects of this game. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphic settings and the quality of development of the main visual aspects.

SUPPORTED OS AND GRAPHICS API

Forspoken is supported by Windows 10/11.

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The priority and primary graphics API for Forspoken is DX12 .

GAME ENGINE

Luminous Engine is a game engine developed by the Japanese company Square Enix for internal use. The engine was created as a cross-platform one - compatible with IBM PC-compatible computers running Microsoft Windows and game consoles. Announced in 2010, the Luminous Engine replaced the studio's previous internal engines, including Crystal Tools, which had become outdated by the time Final Fantasy XIII-2 was developed, and the company feared that its continued use would complicate the expected transition to the eighth generation of gaming systems. The new engine was supposed to significantly increase the efficiency and speed of developing computer games of various genres.

The only game released using the Luminous Engine was Final Fantasy XV. The company has also released tech demos showing off the engine's capabilities - Agni's Philosophy in 2012 and Witch Chapter 0 in 2015. In 2018, Square Enix established an internal studio, Luminous Productions, specifically to develop AAA games using the Luminous Engine.

One of the main priorities when developing Luminous Studio was multiplatform (cross-platform), as a result of which the engine supports any platform that has programmable shaders.

Luminous Studio supports many features for editing and processing game content and assets: visual editing, real-time editing, collaborative parallel editing, automatic assembly and testing of objects, asset management system, task management, etc.

Graphics engine

The graphics engine used in the PC version of Luminous Studio has native support for Direct3D 11, including tessellation. In addition, many other technologies are supported, including various ones, including diffuse, real-time reflections, refraction and ray distortion. It is stated that the graphics engine will feature “strikingly realistic visual fidelity.”

Animation engine

The Luminous Studio development team pays great attention to character animation. They believe that animation is one of the most important components of creating photorealistic graphics, and unnatural animation stands out noticeably and disrupts photorealism. Particular attention is paid to procedural animation, in particular, methods such as inverse kinematics for the whole body, etc.

Luminous Studio will use a combination of pre-recorded motion capture animation along with procedurally generated animation. A special database contains many pre-recorded animations for many movements and actions (for example, walking or swinging a sword). When creating a character animation, the most relevant animation entries are retrieved from the database and adjusted based on the character's current conditions and/or environment. The developers gave several examples, the first describes the imposition of a procedural approach on a recorded walking animation in the case of a character walking on an uneven surface. In the following example, the animation engine could change a pre-recorded sword swinging animation depending on how heavy the sword is, or combine the walking and sword swinging animations as the character swings it in motion.

Physics engine

The physics engine included in Luminous Studio supports the simulation of tissues and liquids.

Gaming AI

Engine developers pay great attention to gaming artificial intelligence. According to Luminous Studio's lead developer and game AI researcher Yoichiro Miyake, previous AI engines are based on reactive loops, while here the developers want to implement a new scalable AI that can recognize game scenes. Miyake gave an example in which the level editor communicates with the AI, and the latter can recognize its terrain and structures, intelligently using them when fighting a human player. If these algorithms can be implemented, then such AI will become universal, suitable for games of many genres. According to Miyake, the developers are striving to create an AI that will be closely connected with other subsystems of the engine, and not placed in a separate independent module. Also an important priority is the creation of scalable AI that can be used both in casual games for low-power portable consoles and in “big” games for the next generation of consoles.

TEST PART

Test configuration
Test benches	ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Z490 AORUS PRO AX GIGABYTE Z590 VISION GIGABYTE Z690 AERO G GIGABYTE Z790 GAMING X AX MSI MPG Z790 Edge WiFi ASUS ROG Strix B650-A Gaming WiFi
Sponsored video cards	ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT 20G Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC
Multimedia equipment	Monitor Philips 326M6VJRMB/00 Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 power supply 16 GB DDR4 4600 CL19 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR5 5600 CL40 KingstonFURY Beast 32 GB DDR5 6000@6400 CL30 KingstonFURY Renegade 32 GB DDR5 7200@7600 CL36 KingstonFURY Renegade Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD MPG CORELIQUID K240 housing Case DeepCool CH510 WH SVO DeepCool LS720 WH
Software configuration
operating system	Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake)
Graphics driver	Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 546.33 WHQL AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.12.1
Monitoring programs	MSI Afterburner

All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality using MSI Afterburner. The purpose of the test is to determine how video cards from different manufacturers behave under the same conditions. Below is a video of the test segment:

Our video cards were tested at resolutions of 1920x1080 , 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 with maximum graphics quality settings. Link to original review.

GPU TEST

In the video card test, the default resolution is 1920x1080; other resolutions are added and removed manually. You can also remove and add any positions of video cards. You can also select any of our test processors from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given video card tests (by default, the most productive solution is selected). The test is carried out on the most powerful CPU in this game and is scaled to other processors, taking into account their testing on NVIDIA and AMD video cards.

Forspoken: Test GPU

At a resolution of 1920x1080, an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060 level . A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060 level . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by the adeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 4070 solutions .

At a resolution of 2560x1440, an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the adeon RX 6600 XT or GeForce RTX 2060 level . A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the adeon RX 6700 or GeForce RTX 2060 level . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by the Radeon RX 7900 XT or GeForce RTX 4070 Ti solutions.

At a resolution of 3840x2160, an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti level . A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the Radeon RX 6800 XT or GeForce RTX 4070 level .

CPU TEST

Testing was carried out at a resolution of 1920x1080. In the processor test, you can remove or add any processor positions. You can also select any tested video card from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given processor test results (by default, the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected). Testing takes place on the most powerful NVIDIA and AMD video cards and scales to low-end models.

Forspoken: Test CPU

When using NVIDIA video cards, Ryzen 3 3100 or Core i 3 10100 processors showed an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames per second , and solutions at the Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i 3 10100 level can provide an FPS rate of at least 60 frames per second .

When using AM D video cards, Ryzen 3 3100 or Core i 3 10100 processors showed an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames per second , and solutions at the Ryzen 3 3300 or Core i 3 10100 level can provide an FPS rate of at least 60 frames per second .

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