Total War Warhammer III: PC Performance Benchmarks for Graphics Cards and Processors
| BASIC INFORMATION ON THE GAME |
Released : February 17, 2022
Genre : RTS
Developer : CREATIVE ASSEMBLY
Publisher : SEGA, Feral Interactive
Total War: WARHAMMER 3 is the epic and dramatic conclusion to a trilogy of strategy games. Gather your troops and enter the Realm of Chaos, a place of unimaginable horrors where the fate of the entire world will be decided.
Far from the familiar world with its miserable wars, a new dimension awaits you, where only dark magic rules: the Realm of Chaos. This terrible place is incomprehensible to mere mortals. His lands promise great power, but are fraught with pernicious temptations. Temptations that blacken the soul. And they absorb it.
| 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 |
Total War Warhammer 3 is supported by Windows 7/8/10/11 .
The priority and primary graphics API for Total War Warhammer 3 is DX11 .
| GAME ENGINE |
Total War Warhammer 3 is based on the Warscape+ game engine. Warscape is a game engine developed by the British company The Creative Assembly for internal use in their games in the Total War series. Warscape is intended for use only on personal computers running Microsoft Windows. The first game to use Warscape, Empire: Total War, the fifth game in the Total War series, was released on March 3, 2009.
Beginning with Rome: Total War in 2004, the Total War games used the Total War engine, which was used until Medieval II: Total War - Kingdoms in 2007. After that, it was decided to create a new engine - "Warscape", the first game on which was "Empire: Total War" in 2009. During the development of Napoleon: Total War, the engine was "well polished," Craig Laycock of The Creative Assembly said in an interview with Armchair General. However, during the development of Total War: Shogun 2, the engine was further reworked and significantly improved. The main innovation was support for DirectX 11 and some AMD technologies: Eyefinity and CrossFireX.
"Total War: Shogun 2" was promoted by AMD as part of a marketing campaign for HD 6xxx series graphics cards as a game that actively uses the capabilities of DirectX 11. However, a few days before the release of the game, it became known that it would not contain DX11 mode. The developers stated that they did not have time to finalize this mode, and it will be released later as a patch. The heavily modified Warscape engine in Total War: Rome 2 allows you to see exotic cities in great detail, and the new camera makes it possible to observe the battlefield from any angle.
In Total War Warhammer, the developers moved away from the 32-bit engine and the game runs in 64-bit mode by default, which means it will no longer be limited to two gigabytes of allocated RAM.
| SETTINGS |
Total War Warhammer 3 has a wide range of graphic 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.
| QUALITY MODES |
| TECHNOLOGIES |
The graphics in Total War Warhammer 3 are largely similar to previous games in the series:
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 |
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| multimedia equipment |
Power Supply Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 32 GB DDR4 3200 CL15 ZEN1 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 ZEN2 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 ZEN3 32 GB DDR4 4400 CL18 Comet Lake 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Rocket Lake 32 GB DDR5 5600 CL42 Alder Lake |
| Software configuration |
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| operating system | Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake) |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 511.65 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 22.2.1 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
Our video cards were tested at 1920x1080, 2560x1600 and 3840x2160 resolutions at maximum default graphics quality settings with unlimited video memory .
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 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 Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070 level. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070 level . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2070s solutions .
At a resolution of 2560x1440 , an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070 level. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the Radeon VII or GeForce RTX 2070 level . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by Radeon RX 6800 XT or GeForce RTX 3070 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 level Radeon RX 6900 XT or GeForce 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 7 gigabytes .
At a resolution of 2560x1440 , video memory consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabytes .
At a resolution of 3840x2160 , video memory consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 10 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 10 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 1400 or Core i 7 4770 processors showed an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames per second , and solutions of the Ryzen 9 5900X or Core i 5 11600K level can provide an FPS rate of at least 60 frames per second .
When using AMD video cards , Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770 0 processors showed an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames per second , and solutions of the Ryzen 5 5600X or Core i 7 10700K level 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 12900K with 32 GB DDR5 5400 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 9 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabytes .
At a resolution of 2560x1440 , the consumption of RAM for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 9 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 9 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabytes .
At a resolution of 3840x2160 , the consumption of RAM for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 11 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 9 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabytes .
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