| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
Year of construction: 2015
Genre: Action (Shooter) / Racing (Cars) / 3D / 1st Person / 3rd Person
developer: Rockstar North, Rockstar San Diego and Rockstar Leeds
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Los Santos is a city of sunshine, starlets and emerging stars. Once the envy of the Western world, it is now a haven of cheesy reality TV shows, suffocating in the grip of economic problems. At the center of the whole mess is a trio of completely different criminals, desperately trying to grab luck by the tail in an ongoing struggle for a place in the sun. Former street gang member Franklin is trying to move on from his past. Retired bank robber Michael discovers that honest life is not as rosy as it seemed. Trevor, a psychopath turned to violence, switches from one businessman to another in the hope of hitting a big jackpot. Having exhausted their options, these three put their own lives on the line and commit a series of daring robberies in which it’s either hit or miss.
| NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY MSI |
Now participating in our test 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.
This time the company’s top video card is participating in our test. MSI GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti GAMING TRIO 12 GB. The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is based on the AD104 GPU and features 7680 CUDA cores and 12GB of GDDR6X memory.
In our review we present you with the motherboard MSI MPG X670E Carbon WIFI. MSI MPG X670E Carbon WIFI is equipped with a highly reliable power system, with 16 power modules designed to work with powerful multi-threaded AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors. You can directly view the testing of this motherboard on our website.
| NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY ASUS |
This time the company’s top video card is participating in our test. ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XTX.. This video card is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, operates at a frequency of 2750 MHz, has 9728 stream processors and 16 gigabytes of video memory. You can get acquainted directly with the testing of these video cards on our website.
This time the company’s new video card is participating in our test. ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 OC. This video card is based on the RDNA 3 architecture, operates at a frequency of 3000 MHz and has 24 gigabytes of video memory.
In our review we present you with the motherboard ASUS ROG Strix B650-A Gaming Wi-Fi. 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.
| NEW PRODUCTS PROVIDED FOR TESTS BY GIGABYTE |
In our review we present you with motherboards GIGABYTE Z690 AERO G и Z690 AORUS MASTER. We use these motherboards as test benches for new generations of processors Intel.
| 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. And for game tests we use an external Kingston XS2000 Portable SSD 1TB.
| 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 |
Grand Theft Auto V supported Windows 10/11.
The priority and main graphics API for Grand Theft Auto V is DX11.
| GAME ENGINE |
Grand Theft Auto V It is based on the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine. “Rockstar Advanced Game Engine” is a full-featured game engine that contains a graphics engine, physics engine, sound engine, animation engine, game artificial intelligence, networking, scripting language and other components. The audio engine and network code were developed by Rockstar North staff, and all other components were developed by Rockstar San Diego staff.
In the first half of the 2000s, Rockstar Games used the RenderWare game engine produced by Criterion Games for the vast majority of its games. However, in July 2004, the American publisher Electronic Arts acquired Criterion Games along with its engine. This worsened RenderWare’s licensing policy, so Rockstar Games decided to develop its own engine for its projects. Information about Rockstar Games’ intention to develop its own engine appeared in September 2005. “RAGE” is based on the AGE engine, which was originally developed by Angel Studios for the Midnight Club series and other games produced by Rockstar San Diego for the sixth generation of video game consoles. RAGE was developed by a group of Rockstar San Diego and Rockstar North employees called the RAGE Technology Group.
At the beginning of May 2006, journalists from the MTV website News published an article in which they confirmed the existence of the RAGE engine and its use in Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis and Grand Theft Auto IV. In June, the release of “Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis” took place and this information was confirmed and clarified. In February 2007, British company NaturalMotion and Rockstar Games announced that “euphoria”, a procedural animation engine, would be used in future Rockstar games and, by extension, the RAGE engine. A press release included in the second trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV ultimately confirmed that Grand Theft Auto IV would be the first Rockstar game to use euphoria.
On April 23, 2008, 1UP.com published an interview with Rockstar North technical directors Adam Fowler and Sandy Roger, which was entirely dedicated to “RAGE”. On April 29, Grand Theft Auto IV was released, the second game to use RAGE. After Grand Theft Auto IV, RAGE was used in the racing game Midnight Club: Los Angeles, which was released on October 21, 2008. Next, the engine was used by both add-ons “Grand Theft Auto IV” – “Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned” and “Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony”. Later, the game “Red Dead Redemption” was released on the engine (May 18, 2010) and the game “Max Payne 3” was announced, which also uses the “RAGE” engine. On November 3, 2012, Rockstar Games announced Grand Theft Auto V, the game uses the “RAGE” engine. The game was released on September 17, 2013 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles, then on November 18, 2014, the game was released on Xbox One and PS4.
Since the engine was aimed at use in games that have an “open seamless world”, the main advantage of the engine is its ability to efficiently handle large game spaces. So, when the character moves through the level, the engine constantly and dynamically adds some objects and removes other objects. The developers reported that for this it was necessary to develop a reliable engine memory manager that could constantly distribute and delete objects from RAM without fragmenting it. RAGE uses the external physics engine “Bullet Physics Library”, which is free software.
The developers devoted a lot of time and attention to the physics of cars, which they tried to make as close to reality as possible. This system takes into account the weight of the car, the traction force of the tires and other characteristics. The behavior of the car depends on the surface on which it is driving, as well as on weather conditions. To animate humanoid characters, “euphoria” is used, a software component that automatically creates character animation on the fly. “euphoria” was developed by NaturalMotion and has been used as a permanent feature in RAGE since Grand Theft Auto IV.
| SETTINGS |
Grand Theft Auto V has a wide range of graphic settings.
Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphic settings, where our readers can see the difference between quality settings.
| QUALITY MODES |
| TECHNOLOGIES |
The graphics in Grand Theft Auto V are still at a very high level:
Well, then we will move directly to gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware.
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Z490 AORUS PROAX GIGABYTE Z590 VISION GIGABYTE Z690 AERO G Z690 AORUS MASTER MSI MPG X670E Carbon WIFI ASUS ROG Strix B650-A Gaming Wi-Fi |
| Sponsorship video cards |
MSI GEFORCE RTX 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24 GB MSI GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti GAMING TRIO 12 GB MSI GEFORCE RTX 3080 SUPRIM X 12 GB MSI GEFORCE RTX 3070 Ti GAMING TRIO 8 GB ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XTX ASUS TUF Gaming GEFORCE RTX 4080 OC |
| Multimedia equipment |
Monitor Philips 326M6VJRMB/00 Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 power supply Kingston XS2000 Portable SSD 1TB 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR5 5600 CL40 Kingston Fury Beast 32 GB DDR5 6000@6400 CL30 Kingston FURY Renegade Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD MPG CORELIQUID K240 housing |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake) |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 528.02 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 23.11.2/22.12.1 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
You may ask why MSAA 8X, and for fun, we were just very interested to know how video cards would behave at the highest graphics settings in a game that was 8 years old…
Our last test of Grand Theft Auto V…
| GPU TEST |
In the video card test, the default resolution is 1920×1080; 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.
- Very high
When resolved 1920×1080 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 3060. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 3060. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 3060.
When resolved 2560×1440 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 3060. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 XT or GeForce RTX 3060. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
When resolved 3840×2160 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 6750 XTor GeForce RTX 3060 Ti . Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6950 XTXor GeForce RTX 3070 Ti.
| VIDEO MEMORY CONSUMPTION |
Testing of video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. The indicator was based on the results on video cards from AMD and NVIDIA with separate screen sizes 1920×1080, 2560×1440 and 3840×2160 with various anti-aliasing settings. By default, the graph displays the most current solutions. Other video cards are added and removed from the schedule at the request of the reader.
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 5 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 5 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 5 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 5 gigabyte .
When resolved 2560×1440 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 6 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 6 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 6 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 6 gigabyte .
When resolved 3840×2160 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 9 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 9 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 9 gigabyte .
| CPU TEST |
Testing was carried out at a resolution of 1920×1080. 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.
- Very high
When using video cards NVIDIA processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames per second Ryzen 3 3100 or Core i 3 10100, and an FPS of at least 60 frames per second will be able to provide solutions at the level Ryzen 3 3300 or Core i 3 10100.
When using video cards AMD acceptable figure is not less than 25 frames per second showed processors Ryzen 3 3100 or Core i 3 10100 , and FPS not lower than 60 frames per second will be able to provide level solutions Ryzen 3 3100 or Core i 3 10100.
- Very high
GameGPU
The game can load up to 12 streams. The game uses 8 threads as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 9 13900K with 32 GB DDR5 6400 MHz pre-installed memory. All used RAM was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various video cards without launching third-party applications (browsers, etc.). In the graphics, you can add and remove any resolutions and video cards as desired.
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 9 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 8 ggigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 9 gigabyte, with 24 gigabytes 10 gigabyte .
When resolved 2560×1440 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 9 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 9 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 10 gigabyte .
When resolved 3840×2160 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 10 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 9 gigabyte with 24 gigabytes 10 gigabyte .
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