Wasteland 3: PC Performance Benchmarks for Graphics Cards and Processors
| BASIC INFORMATION ON THE GAME |
Release Date : August 28, 2020
Genre : RPG
Developer : inXile Entertainment
Publisher/Distributor : THQ Nordic
Colorado awaits new challenges. You need to redirect your abilities in a different direction in order to try to survive. This time, events unfold on the territory of a snowy town, where a banal battle between good and evil forces takes place. Surely few people from the local population know about the creation of the base and the existence of some Rangers, those who are going to help humanity survive in banal problems.
Players will have to go through many tests, face impeccable opponents, and then deal a serious blow and stand in trouble. The collective mode allows you, together with your friends, to move towards your destiny, to try to prevent an attack from an unknown force, which in the future will allow you to survive and win. Missions are more difficult with each new level.
| THE GRAFICAL PART |
In this subsection of our review, the main graphical aspects of this game are revealed. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphics settings and the quality of the development of the main visual aspects.
| SUPPORTED OC AND GRAPHICS API |
Wasteland 3 is supported by Windows 7/8/10 .
The priority and primary graphics API for Wasteland 3 is DX11 .
| Maid of Sker |
Wasteland 3 runs on the Unity game engine. Unity is a 2D and 3D application and game development tool that runs on Windows and OS X operating systems. Applications built with Unity run on Windows, OS X, Windows Phone, Android, Apple iOS, Linux, and game consoles Wii, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One. It is possible to create applications to run in browsers using a special Unity plug-in (Unity Web Player), as well as using the implementation of WebGL technology. Previously, there was experimental implementation support for projects within the Adobe Flash Player module, but later the Unity development team made the difficult decision to drop this.
Applications built with Unity support DirectX and OpenGL. The engine is actively used by both large developers (Blizzard, EA, QuartSoft, Ubisoft) and Indie game developers (for example, Pathologic remake), Kerbal Space Program, Slender: The Eight Pages, Slender: The Arrival, Surgeon Simulator 2013, Baeklyse Apps: Guess the actor, etc.) due to the availability of a free version, user-friendly interface and ease of working with the engine.
The project in Unity is divided into scenes (levels) - separate files containing their game worlds with their own set of objects, scenarios, and settings. Scenes can contain objects (models) as well as empty game objects - objects that do not have a model ("dummy"). Objects, in turn, contain sets of components that scripts interact with. Also, objects have a name (in Unity, two or more objects with the same name are allowed), there can be a tag (label) and a layer on which it should be displayed. So, any object on the stage must have a Transform component - it stores the coordinates of the location, rotation and size of the object along all three axes. Objects with visible geometry also have a Mesh Renderer component by default that makes the object's model visible.
In addition to free, there are four builds - standard Unity, Unity iOS Pro (for developing games for iOS), Android Pro and a team license. They differ in cost and functionality. The free version has some limitations, but it is possible to distribute games, provided that the annual income from the game does not exceed $100,000. With the release of Unity 5, many of the limitations of the Free version have been removed, but the annual income from the game must still not exceed $100,000.
| GRAPHICS SETTINGS |
Wasteland 3 has a fairly wide range of graphics settings.
Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between the minimum and maximum graphics quality settings.
| DIFFERENT QUALITY MODES |
| РАЗЛИЧНЫЕ РЕЖИМЫ СГЛАЖИВАНИЯ |
| GENERAL VISUAL DESIGN AND GAME PHYSICS |
The graphics in Wasteland 3 are not bad, as for this genre:
Well, then we will go directly to the gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware.
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
GIGABYTE X470 AORUS GAMING 7 WIFI MSI MPG Z490 GAMING CARBON WIFI |
| multimedia equipment |
Power Supply Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 |
| Software configuration |
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| operating system | Windows 10 Pro 2004 |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 452.06 AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 20.8.2 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner Action! FRAPS |
Our video cards were tested at 1920x1080, 2560x1600 and 3840x2160 resolutions with the game's default graphics quality ultra settings.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX and GTX graphics cards provided by LLC Business Development Center.
| GPU TEST |
In the test of video cards, 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 choose 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 performed on the most productive CPU and scaled to other processors, taking into account their testing on NVIDIA and AMD video cards.
At a resolution of 1920x1080, an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 560 or GeForce GTX 1050 Ti level. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the Radeon RX 560 or GeForce GTX 1050 Ti level. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by Radeon RX 470 or GeForce GTX 1050 Ti solutions .
At a resolution of 2560x1440, an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 560 or GeForce GTX 1050 Ti level. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the Radeon RX 560 or GeForce GTX 1050 Ti level. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by Radeon RX 580 or GeForce GTX 1650s solutions .
At a resolution of 3840x2160, an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 470 or GeForce GTX 1650 level . A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 480 or GeForce GTX 1650s . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by Radeon RX Vega 64 or GeForce GTX 1080 solutions .
| VIDEO MEMORY CONSUMPTION |
Testing of the video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the MSI Afterburner program. The results on video cards from AMD and NVIDIA at resolutions of 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 with various anti-aliasing settings were taken as the indicator. By default, the graph displays the most up-to-date solutions. Other graphics cards are added and removed from the chart at the reader's request.
GameGPU
At a resolution of 1920x1080, video memory consumption for video cards with 4 gigabytes is 2900 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 3300 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 3200 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 3200 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 2900 megabytes.
At a resolution of 2560x1440, video memory consumption for video cards with 4 gigabytes is 3100 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 3500 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 3500 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 3500 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 3400 megabytes .
At a resolution of 3840x2160, video memory consumption for video cards with 4 gigabytes is 3500 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 4200 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 4200 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 4300 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 4200 megabytes .
| CPU TEST |
Testing was carried out at a resolution of 1920x1080. In the processor test, you can remove and add any positions of the processors. You can also select any tested video card from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance to the given processor tests (by default, the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected). Testing takes place on the most productive NVIDIA and AMD video cards and scales up to lower models.
When using NVIDIA video cards, Ryzen 3 1200 or Core i 3 4330 processors showed an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames, and solutions of the Ryzen 3 1200 or Core i 7 4770 level can provide an FPS rate of at least 60 frames .
When using AMD video cards , Ryzen 3 1200 or Core i 3 4330 processors showed an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames , and Ryzen 3 1200 or Core i 7 4770 solutions can provide an FPS rate of at least 60 frames .
GameGPU
The game can download up to 8 threads. The game uses 4 full-fledged cores as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The test was conducted on the base configuration of the Core i 9 10900K with 16 GB DDR4 4000 MGz 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 running extraneous applications (browsers, etc.). In the graphics, you can add and remove any resolutions and video cards as desired.
GameGPU
At a resolution of 1920x1080, the RAM consumption of the system by a video card with 4 gigabytes is 6400 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 6700 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 5700 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 6900 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 6000 megabytes.
At a resolution of 2560x1440, the RAM consumption of the system by a video card with 4 gigabytes is 6400 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 6700 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 5800 megabytes, with 11 gigabytes 5800 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 6000 megabytes.
At a resolution of 3840x2160, the RAM consumption of the system by a video card with 4 gigabytes is 6900 megabytes, with 6 gigabytes 6800 megabytes, with 8 gigabytes 5900 megabytes , with 11 gigabytes 5900 megabytes and with 16 gigabytes 6000 megabytes.
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