Resident Evil 3 Benchmarked

Resident Evil 3 is a remake of the PlayStation original released dorsum in 1999. The game follows Jill Valentine and Carlos Oliveira equally they endeavor to survive a zombie apocalypse while hunted by the intelligent bioweapon Nemesis. But today nosotros won't delve any deeper on the gameplay or mechanics of Resident Evil, but how it performs on PC when using a diversity of GPUs.

The new Capcom remake is set for release on April 3rd, then in just a few more days. It will get in to Windows PCs, PlayStation 4, and Xbox 1. It will accept an multiplayer mode and then far it'southward gathered generally favorable reviews from critics.

Resident Evil 3 is based on the RE Engine, the same engine used past Resident Evil 7, Devil May Cry 5 and the Resident Evil ii remake. Graphically the game looks very similar to last twelvemonth'due south Resident Evil 2 -- which we tested likewise -- so we're expecting similar performance. There's also a downloadable demo available which is a dainty perk as you tin encounter for yourself how well your PC will tackle Resident Evil 3. In other words, you lot won't need to look at the information hither to try to guess where your PC lands, y'all can just download the demo and notice out exactly how it plays.

In that sense, today's results can as well serve you every bit an upgrade guide. And so if you have a GTX 1060, for instance, and have found the demo doesn't play well enough using the quality settings you are aiming for, y'all can encounter how much more than performance something like the RTX 2060 Super will offer. Nosotros're aiming at using the game'southward maximum visual quality settings (the max preset) which we've tested at 1080p, 1440p and 4K.

The criterion pass takes place early on in the game. Having played for most two hours now, this section appears very representative of what you tin look to find, at to the lowest degree for the kickoff few hours of gameplay. As usual, all our testing was performed using our GPU exam rig which features a Core i9-9900K clocked at 5 GHz with 16GB of DDR4-3400 retention.

Benchmarks

Starting with the current generation of AMD and Nvidia GPUs, we run into for over 60 fps on boilerplate at 1080p using the maximum quality settings, the GTX 1650 Super or 5500 XT 4GB volition become the job washed. It's really only the base model GTX 1650 that struggles, though the game was even so very playable.

Then for those wanting to maintain over threescore fps will require the 8GB 5500 XT or GTX 1660. Beyond that we're pushing towards 100 fps on boilerplate and ~$300 options such as the 5600 XT and RTX 2060 will be suitable for loftier refresh rate monitors.

As for the previous-gen models, y'all'll desire either a GTX 1060 or RX 570. GPUs such as the GTX 1050 Ti and RX 560 will require you to lower the visual quality settings at this resolution, while the GTX 1050 and RX 550 volition likely as well require a driblet in resolution every bit well. The RX 580 and 590 offer amazing value hither, keeping frame rates above 60 fps at all times.

The Vega models perform surprisingly well, Vega 56 edged out the 1070 Ti while Vega 64 did the same to the GTX 1080. And then we see a big stride forrad with the Radeon Vii, though sadly it couldn't quite go the GTX 1080 Ti, which has ever been a disappointing reality for this 7nm GCN 5th-gen part. Despite arriving ii years after the GTX 1080 Ti, for the same toll information technology simply didn't offer anything new in terms of gaming performance.

Moving to 1440p sees the GTX 1650 become unplayable, though not entirely surprising for that part. The 1650 Super does dip well beneath 60fps, just it was able to evangelize playable performance -- the same is also true of the 5500 XT. However for a more than ideal frame rate, the GTX 1660 Super or 5600 XT will exist required.

The RX 5700 and RTX 2060 Super were cervix and neck, delivering 87 fps on average, allowing them to match the RTX 2070. Likewise, the 5700 XT and 2070 Super are also evenly matched, so in terms of toll per frame, this is a good outcome for AMD.

For those of you lot gaming at 1440p with a previous-gen GPU, you'll desire at least an RX 580 or 590. Over the years nosotros've recommended the RX 580 over the GTX 1060 as a meliorate long-term investment, and we're certainly starting to see that prediction come up to fruition. Here the Radeon GPU was almost 20% faster.

Over again, the Vega GPUs manage to match or but outpace their Pascal rivals, which is a decent result, simply nix for Vega fans to celebrate too loudly either.

If you lot desire to play RE3 with all the bells and whistles at 4K, your options are far more than limited, particularly if you want to average 60 fps. The RX 5700 will work but 43 fps on average is not platonic. The aforementioned applies to the 2060 Super, RTX 2070 and fifty-fifty the 5700 XT.

The RTX 2070 Super is every bit slow as we'd entertain going at 4K and while it'south an absurd toll to pay, the RTX 2080 Ti actually is incredible, pumping out well over threescore fps at all times, for an boilerplate of 80 fps.

As for 4K gaming on previous-gen hardware, the GTX 1080 Ti and Radeon 7 deliver a great experience. Beyond that though, it starts to feel like current-gen console gaming, it'south a flake too 30fps-ish.

Hither'due south a await at graphics scaling and dissimilar Doom Eternal, the presets actually provide meaningful changes in performance. Whereas nosotros saw about a 20% increase in performance with Doom when going from the max preset to the minimum quality setting, here nosotros run across a huge 70% spring with Resident Evil 3.

Scaling for both AMD and Nvidia GPUs is virtually identical, then that means nosotros meet nearly a 7% boost when going from 'Max' to 'Graphics Priority', and so a further 15% increase when dropping down to 'Counterbalanced' and then near a 40% increment when dropping downwardly to the lowest preset, 'Performance Priority'.

Put differently, the game should be playable with the everyman quality settings on very old hardware, which is keen to see.

Survival horror that your GPU tin likely handle

Resident Evil three plays very well on current and previous generation hardware using the maximum quality preset, and although we've tested with a pre-release version of the game nosotros don't wait these results to change in any meaningful manner. Nosotros're confident because the margins are very close to what nosotros institute a yr agone when testing Resident Evil 2.

Interesting fact at that place, Resident Evil 2 performance has not really changed afterwards our initial await, which is reasonable given how well the game is optimized. For example, a year ago we saw the RTX 2080 Ti average 149 fps at 1440p -- in today's examination information technology averaged 150 fps. The GTX 1070 was good for 65 fps in our Resident Evil two launch testing, whereas it averaged 67 fps in Resident Evil 3. The Radeon GPU results are besides very similar, so we wouldn't expect future driver updates to have much of an impact in this title.

That's not a bad thing, but rather a positive since right out of the gate yous're likely receiving elevation optimization and performance. The game looks very adept, too.

On that annotation, for those of you wanting to savour Resident Evil iii in all of its glory with smooth frame rates, having at to the lowest degree 6GB of VRAM is ideal. The 4GB 5500 XT didn't perform quite too equally the 8GB model and the simply departure betwixt the 2 is VRAM capacity. The game is heavy on VRAM allocation, actual usage is harder to judge, simply with the game allocating over 7GB at 1080p, maintaining smooth performance with a 4GB buffer won't always exist possible.

In fact, operation with the GTX 1650 Super, 4GB 5500 XT and other 4GB GPUs would take been a lot worse, if we weren't testing in a high-terminate Core i9-9900K system with 16GB of DDR4-3400 memory. This is because while the 8GB 5500 XT only saw arrangement retentivity or RAM resource allotment, peaking at just over 7 GB, the 4GB model saw allocation reach nine.5 GB. Had there not been enough system memory, the ane% depression performance would have surely suffered with GPUs packing 4GB or less VRAM.

Every bit for CPU performance, Resident Evil 3 is no unlike to Resident Evil 2. That is to say, a decent quad-cadre processor volition work just fine, peaking at around seventy% utilization. The game does load balance reasonably well and 6-core, 12-thread processors volition see load spread across all cores well. The game isn't terribly CPU enervating, so a Ryzen v 3600, for example, will but run across total usage of effectually 50%.

When comparing the Ryzen 5 3600 or whatever Zen 2 based processor with the Core i9-9900K, y'all're going to see well-nigh identical frame rates using an RTX 2080 Ti at 1080p.

That brings us to the finish of our Resident Evil 3 GPU criterion. You'll see more Resident Evil 3 results in upcoming reviews as we'll be calculation this championship to the huge range of games we actively examination with.