Doom 2016

Doom (2016) – Reviewed 8 Years Later

Doom is one of those FPS titles that had been on my games to play list for a while. I finally had a chance to…

GRID Legends

GRID Legends 8K Performance

GRID Legends is the latest game in Codemaster’s long running GRID racing game series. It was released in February 2022. I recently got a chance…

Infernal PC 2007

Infernal (2007) – Playing at 8K resolution in 2023

INTRODUCTION Infernal is a little known third person shooter that came out in 2007. It received generally poor ratings with an average Metacritic score of…

Just Cause 2 (2010)

Out of the four Just Cause games, Just Cause 2 is my favorite. The game was a significant improvement over the original Just Cause. It…

Metro 2033 DX 11 (Classic, 2010)

In my opinion Metro 2033 became an instant classic upon release. Based on a Russian novel, this title helped games like STALKER become a sub-genre…

Crysis DX 10 (2007)

Ahh….Crysis! If you have had even the remotest interest in PC graphics benchmarking over the last 15 years or so, there is a high chance…

Devil May Cry 4 DX 10 (2008)

There is a standalone benchmark for DMC4 which runs four individual scenes. This is one of those benchmarks which I used to start and go…

Codemasters Dirt Rally Games – A Performance History

CODEMASTER’s Colin McRae / Dirt is a long running series of racing games. The latest entry in the series, Dirt 5 was released in 2020…

Lost Planet 2 (2011)

“Lost Planet 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom and Beeline Interactive, Inc. The game is the sequel to Lost…

Stalker: Call of Pripyat (2010)

“S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is a first-person shooter survival horror video game developed by GSC Game World for Microsoft Windows. It is the third game…

Dirt 5 (2021)

“Dirt 5 is a simcade racing video game developed and published by Codemasters. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One…

Chernobylite (2021)

Chernobylite includes a built-in performance benchmark which was utilized for this test. The benchmark features multiple scenes but the chart and the screenshots below are…

8K Gaming with RTX 3090

The RTX 3090 is seen be many as the first card which makes 8K PC gaming a reality. Nvidia have also marketed their flagship card…

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (2006)

Lost Planet is one of those titles which were very popular in the late 2000’s among hardware testers and PC enthusiasts. The tech demo is…

Thief (2014)

Thief includes a built in benchmark and the numbers and screenshots shown here are based on this benchmark. The FPS gain experienced when going from…

Borderlands 3 (2019)

An RTX 3090 delivers 70 FPS at 4k and the highest image quality setting. At 8K the FPS drops down to 21. Very low image…

Gears 5 (2019)

Gears 5 was originally released in 2019. In December 2020 a patch was released which added various graphical options. From the official patch notes: “Added…

Strange Brigade (2018)

Strange Brigade supports both DX 12 and Vulkan. The results and screenshots shown here correspond to the DX 12 version of the built in benchmark….

Resident Evil 5 (2009)

There is a stand-alone benchmark for Resident Evil 5 which lets you pick DX9 or DX10 presets. Historically, this has been a highly CPU bound…

GRID (2019)

The latest installment in the GRID series includes a built in benchmark. The numbers in the plots below are based on this benchmark. 8K performance…