Need for Speed Unbound: PC Performance Benchmarks for Graphics Cards and Processors
| BASIC INFORMATION ON THE GAME |
Released : Dec 2 2022
Genre : Racing / Action
Developer : Criterion Games
Publisher : Electronic Arts
In Need for Speed Unbound, the world is your playground. Prove that you can win the Grand Race, Lakeshore's premier street race. Over 4 weeks of heart-pounding racing, earn enough money to compete in the weekly qualifying races, defeat rivals, fool the cops and make a name for yourself. Fill your garage with unique modified cars and show class on the streets with great music. You are waiting for the hits A$AP Rocky and AWGE, which blew up the whole world. Enjoy complete freedom of expression with new styles and signature tags that represent your unique approach. Criterion Games' latest entry in the Need for Speed series features a standalone single-player campaign and multiplayer mode. Many hours of adrenaline-charged and speedy entertainment awaits you!
| NEW IN TESTS - GEFORCE RTX 4090 / Core i9 13900KF |
Our test now includesGBGIGABYTE GEFORCE RTX 4090 24 GB , courtesy of GIGABYTE .
ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition now participates in our test , kindly provided to us by ARTLINE . This video card is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, operates at a frequency of 2600 MHz, has 16384 stream processors and 24 gigabytes of video memory.
Also in our test participates INTEL Core i9-13900KF , kindly provided to us by ARTLINE . At the moment, the top gaming processor in the Intel line.
This time, the top-end video card from ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4080 OC Edition (ROG-STRIX-RTX4080-O16G-GAMING), kindly provided to us by ASUS, participates in our test . 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.
| THE GRAFICAL PART |
In this review, we present a test of the game Need for Speed Unbound, which was tested on current families of GEFORCE RTX and RADEON RX video cards that support hardware ray tracing.
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 |
Need for Speed Unbound is only supported on Windows 10/11.
The priority and primary graphics API for Need for Speed Unbound is DirectX 12 .
| GAME ENGINE |
Need for Speed Unbound is based on Frostbite Engine 3.5. Frostbite Engine is a game engine developed by EA Digital Illusions CE; used both in their own developments and projects of other branches of Electronic Arts. The first game created using this engine was Battlefield: Bad Company in 2008. The engine was designed to replace the technically obsolete Refractor Engine technology used in the firm's previous games.
There are many versions of the engine - 1.0, 1.5, 2, 3, 3.5 as well as a special version of the engine for mobile systems - Frostbite Go. The engine refers to a type of sub-software and is a bundle of several components, such as a graphics engine, a sound engine, etc. In the Microsoft Windows operating system, the game engine supports graphics display using DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1, and starting from version 1.5 - and DirectX 11. One of the announced features is optimization for multi-core processors.
The technology is able to handle the destructibility of the landscape and environment. Supports dynamic lighting and shading with HBAO, procedural shading, various post-effects (such as HDR and depth of field), a particle system, and texturing techniques such as bump mapping. The maximum location size is limited to 32 × 32 kilometers of display area and 4 × 4 kilometers of play space.
In addition, it is claimed that the maximum draw distance allows you to see the level up to the horizon. It also has its own sound engine, which does not require the use of specialized tools like EAX.
| ADVANCED GAME SETTINGS |
Need for Speed Unbound has a wide range of graphic settings. We have both basic and advanced settings.
Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between the minimum and high graphics quality settings on GEFORCE GTX and RADEON RX video cards that do not support hardware ray tracing.
| DIFFERENT QUALITY MODES |
| TECHNOLOGIES |
The graphics in Need for Speed Unbound are rather mediocre, the implementation of the puddles killed me especially - they are just a mirror on the road, there are no splashes or wet effects from them:
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 Z590 VISION |
| multimedia equipment |
Power Supply Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR5 5600 CL40 KingstonFURY Beast |
| Software configuration |
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| operating system | Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake) |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 526.98 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 22.11.1 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
Our video cards were tested at resolutions of 1920x1080 , 2560x1600 , 3840x2160 at ultra graphics quality settings.
| 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 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 productive CPU in this game and is 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 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s level . A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s solutions .
At a resolution of 2560x1440 , an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s . A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by Radeon RX 6600 XT solutions or GeForce RTX 2070s .
At a resolution of 3840x2160, an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s . A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the Radeon RX 6600 XT levelor GeForce RTX 2060s . . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided byRadeon RX 6800XTorGeForce RTX 3080.
| 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, 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 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 , the consumption of video memory for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 7 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 7 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabytes with 24 gigabytes 9 gigabytes .
At a resolution of 2560x1440 , the consumption of video memory for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 7 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 9 gigabytes with 24 gigabytes 10 gigabytes .
At a resolution of 3840x2160 , video memory consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 9 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 10 gigabytes with 24 gigabytes 12 gigabytes .
| 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 with the results of 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 5 3100 or Core i 3 10100 processors showed an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames per second , and Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i 5 10600 solutions can provide an FPS rate of at least 60 frames per second .
When using AM D video cards, Ryzen 5 3100 or Core i 3 10100 processors showed an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames per second , and Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i 5 10600 solutions can provide an FPS rate of at least 60 frames per second .
GameGPU
The game can download up to 16 threads. The game uses 12 threads as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The test was conducted on the base configuration 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 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 consumption of RAM for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 12 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 12 gigabytes, with 24 gigabytes 12 gigabytes .
At a resolution of 2560x1440 , the consumption of RAM for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 13 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 12 gigabytes with 24 gigabytes 12 gigabytes .
At a resolution of 3840x2160 , the consumption of RAM for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 13 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 12 gigabytes with 24 gigabytes 12 gigabytes .
Testing of an earlier generation of video cards that do not support hardware ray tracing can be found at this link.
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