World of Warships Beta: PC Performance Benchmarks for Graphics Cards and Processors

BASIC INFORMATION ON THE GAME

 

Released : 2015
Genre : Action MMO, Naval Battle Simulator
Developer : Wargaming
Publisher : Wargaming

World of Warships is a free-to-play MMO action game that allows you to plunge into the world of large-scale naval battles and try out the legendary warships of the first half of the 20th century in battle.

Well-thought-out gameplay will help you hone your logic and strategic thinking, while detailed models of military equipment, combined with realistic physics and many game locations, will provide complete immersion in the atmosphere of naval battles. Control legendary warships in World of Warships online team battles.

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 OS and graphics API

World of Warships Beta is supported on major Windows operating systems, which include Windows XP/Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Other operating systems are not currently supported by the developers and will not be supported. 

 

The priority and main graphics API for World of Warships Beta is  DirectX 9 . 

Game engine

World of Warships Beta is based on the BigWorld game engine, which was implemented by Wargaming for use in their own products.

 

Unfortunately, we did not find more detailed information about the game engine, except for the above data ...

 

Advanced game settings

 

World of Warships Beta has graphic settings similar to all Wargaming games. As befits the games of this series, changing the graphic settings requires a direct restart of the game itself.

  

Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between the minimum, medium and maximum graphics quality settings. 

Various quality modes

The picture quality between different settings in World of Warships Beta is quite decent. Everything changes - the environment, the sea, the details of the ship.

Comparison of FullHD and 4K

In 4K, World of Warships Beta looks much better than HD, because in this case the picture becomes sharper and smoother.

Comparison of anti-aliasing modes

Aactivating full-screen anti-aliasing does not eliminate all "surface roughness", the picture still leaves much to be desired.

General visual design and game physics

World of Warships Beta is one of the first games of this genre, where naval battles are closely connected with the online component. The picture in the game is quite nice, but since the World of Warships Beta is at the beta testing stage, it has some shortcomings, which may well be eliminated in the shortest possible time. The physics in the game is very pleasing, showing a very good realism in the control of sea vessels.

 

 

 

Next, we will go directly to the gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware. 

TEST PART

GPU test

All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality by MSI Afterburner. The purpose of the test is to determine how video cards from different manufacturers behave under the same conditions. The average and minimum FPS were taken as the performance indicator. Below is a video of the test segment:    

Our video cards were tested at resolutions of 1920x1080, 2560x1600 and 3840x2160 at very high and maximum graphics quality settings allowed by World of Warships Beta. AMD CrossFireX and SLI are not supported by the game . The game has a weird internal FPS limit of 73 frames.

 

Testing at 1920x1080 resolution

 

 

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 

  

With these settings,  video cards of the Radeon R7 260X or GeForce GTX 750 Ti level showed an acceptable FPS. 

Testing at 2560x1600 resolution

 

Testing at maximum quality settings 2560x1600

 

With these settings,  video cards of the Radeon R7 260X or GeForce GTX 750 Ti level showed an acceptable FPS.

Testing at 3840x2160 resolution

 

Testing at maximum quality settings 3840x2160

 

With these settings,  video cards of the Radeon R9 270 or GeForce GTX 660 level showed an acceptable FPS.   Radeon R9 285 or GeForce GTX 760 would be the best solutions  .

Testing of the video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the  MSI Afterburner program. The results on top video cards from AMD and NVIDIA were taken as an indicator at resolutions of  1920x1080 and 2560x1600 with various anti-aliasing settings.

Testing at maximum memory GPU quality settings

 

The recommended amount of video memory usage for 1920x1080 resolution will be 1536 MB of video memory, for 2560x1600 resolution - 2048 MB of video memory and for 3840x2160 resolution about 3076 MB of video memory. 

CPU test

  

We tested processor dependence on 16 models of basic configurations that are relevant today. The test was carried out in those places where the value of the video card for the game is minimal and its load was less than 99%, this time at a resolution of 1920x1080 with maximum graphics quality settings. 

Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080

 

The CPU performance in the game is sufficient for all models.

Loading of processor cores at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 Intel % 

 

Loading of processor cores  at maximum quality settings 1920x1080 AMD % 

 

World of Warships Beta is disproportionately capable of supporting up to 4 compute threads, but only fully utilizes 2 cores.

RAM test

The test was carried out on the base configuration Core i 7 5960X @ 4.6 GHz with 16GB DDR4 2400 MGz pre-installed memory. All used RAM was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various test benches without running extraneous applications (browsers, etc.).

Testing the game's RAM consumption at various quality settings 

 

As we can see, at various quality settings, the amount of RAM consumed in World of Warships Beta is at the level of 800 megabytes.

Testing system RAM consumption  

 

With a 6 GB system, World of Warships Beta consumes about 2.6 GB of RAM. In the presence of a system with 8 gigabytes, the RAM consumption of all RAM was 2.6 gigabytes. With a 16 GB system, total memory consumption was almost 2.7 GB. And with 32 gigabytes of RAM, the system consumes 3.7  gigabytes of RAM.