Bethesda’s subsequent huge RPG, Starfield, is out in early entry for all these prepared to shell out $100 for it. Regardless of not leveraging ray tracing, it’s a pretty-looking sport along with your ordinary Todd Howardesque quirks. Not like earlier titles from the Xbox Recreation Studiothat is an AMD accomplice title that includes FSR 2 from day 0. Fortunately, most of us received’t want an upscaler, as the sport runs fairly effectively on most {hardware}.
We examined Starfield on the quickest NVIDIA and AMD graphics playing cards (with a Core i9-13900KF and 32GB of DDR5-6000 reminiscence) and acquired attention-grabbing outcomes. The sport runs a lot better on Radeon playing cards (no shock there), with equally priced GeForce choices being notably slower throughout all resolutions. Earlier than we start, do not forget that in a large open-world sport like Starfield, the efficiency will range considerably from scene to scene.
Some areas will likely be extra CPU-bound, lowering (or eliminating) the efficiency delta between completely different GPUs. We recorded the body charges within the beginning space of the sport. With loads of shadows, ambient occlusion, and oblique lighting, our GPUs have been absolutely strained at 4K, typically approaching their peak TBPs.
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is the quickest card on this sport, netting 108 FPS at 4K Extremely with 0.2% lows of 83 FPS, a strong and constant end result. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is available in second with a mean of 106 FPS and lows of 81 FPS. You don’t see a $959 GPU beating a $1,599 flagship on daily basis. The Radeon RX 7900 XT nets 89 FPS with lows of 65.6 FPS. Lastly, the RTX 3080 Ti stops simply in need of 60 FPS with lows of 45 FPS.
By far, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX gives the smoothest efficiency with the time delta between 92% frametime values being lower than 2ms. The RTX 4090 manages 82%, with the 7900 XT reaching 86-87%. That mentioned, the latter does run right into a patch of 8ms ft deltas longer than each different GPU.
Regardless of being barely CPU-boundthe Radeon RX 7900 XTX retains and extends its lead over the GeForce RTX 4090 at 1440p. The previous averages 162.6 FPS, whereas the latter is restricted to 154.3 FPS. There’s a delta of 12 FPS between the 0.2% lows, however that’s not attention-grabbing. The $750 RX 7900 XT is almost as quick because the RTX 4090 ($1,599), courtesy of a better CPU overhead and lack of GeForce GameReady drivers. The RTX 3080 Ti is barely slower than the competitors, with a mean of lower than 100 FPS.
Starfield pushes even the quickest GPUs to their limits (energy limits, at the least). The Radeon RX 7900 XTX consumes ~350W on common, with a peak of 468W. The GeForce RTX 4090 averages 410W with an higher restrict of 435W. The RX 7900 XTX averages over 300W, whereas the RTX 3080 Ti is available in at simply 350W.
