Wednesday, March 13th 2019
The Division 2 System Requirements Outed - RX 480 Enough for 1080p @ 60 FPS, DX12 Renderer Offers Much Improved Performance
The Division 2 is shaping up to be one of the hottest releases of 2019 - particularly as the other shared world, third-person shooter, Anthem, has fared somewhat below expectations. And while Anthem offers very impressive visuals, it also comes with relatively steep performance requirements - at least comparing with The Division 2's requirement of an RX 480 for 1080, 60 FPS gaming. For 4K, 60 FPS, you'll require a much bigger hardware commitment, in the form of AMD'S Radeon VII or NVIDIA's RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards, with a minimum of 16 GB system RAM and a Ryzen 7 2700X or Intel Core I7-8700X CPU.
The Snowdrop engine The Division 2 makes use of, developed in-house by Massive Entertainment, features a particularly impressive DX12 implementation, which should offer some 10-20 fps improvement in certain scenarios. DSO Gaming, testing in the private Beta, saw differences between 59 FPS under DX 11 and 80 FPS, in the minimum frame rate, for the same scene. So if you're not running DX 12 or a DX 12 capable card, know that even a graphics card with the same performance as yours, but that supports the DX12 renderer, will bring tangible performance benefits - particularly if you have an AMD card, due to the title's extensive use of Async Compute. The Division 2's release is set for March 15.
Sources:
Ubisoft Store, DSO Gaming
The Snowdrop engine The Division 2 makes use of, developed in-house by Massive Entertainment, features a particularly impressive DX12 implementation, which should offer some 10-20 fps improvement in certain scenarios. DSO Gaming, testing in the private Beta, saw differences between 59 FPS under DX 11 and 80 FPS, in the minimum frame rate, for the same scene. So if you're not running DX 12 or a DX 12 capable card, know that even a graphics card with the same performance as yours, but that supports the DX12 renderer, will bring tangible performance benefits - particularly if you have an AMD card, due to the title's extensive use of Async Compute. The Division 2's release is set for March 15.
36 Comments on The Division 2 System Requirements Outed - RX 480 Enough for 1080p @ 60 FPS, DX12 Renderer Offers Much Improved Performance
(but yes, it is rather painful endorsement imo)
Also acting as if a 2700x is equal to a 7900x or a Radeon VII to a RTX2080Ti is just pathetic.
Come on AMD, (or I guess Ubisoft?) dont do this....
(actually surprised they did not act as if the 1700 is equal to a 8700k)
Otherwise the 2080 (non-TI) is a bit faster than the Radeon VII at 4K and should be all that is required.
As if the Snowdrop engine has been downgraded even further.
Also, um, i7-8700X? You mean i7-8700K right?
V7 is a 1080ti competitor at most.
Maybe new proccesor but i never heard about this :laugh:
:)
its all about interpretation and in that sense, technically AMD can explain that they weren't lying. Its a hard sell, but OK.
www.computerbase.de/2019-03/the-division-2-benchmark-test/2/#abschnitt_directx_11_vs_directx_12
RVII matches 1080Ti FE.
2080Ti is 1.45x faster at 1440p and 1.4x faster at 4K.
Are you trying to read it on your phone? I'm using a small 15.6" laptop, and can read all the text plain as day.
I call BS on its cpu requirements personally.
My laptops GPU meets its 1080P/60 fps requirement, my cpu does not. I would bet money on my cpu not bottlenecking my gpu despite that.
Laptop has a 1060 Max-Q and a i5-8300H.
Here's a hypothesis: for each game released this year and each settings, there exists an i7 old and weak enough to be considered minimal.
They could have easily replaced that i5-2500K as well. :-)
And putting 7900X as minimal Intel for 4K is just sad.
Literally few days ago some known AMD fanboys mocked Tom's Hardware for being *allegedly* sponsored by Nvidia. I'd love to see their opinion in this thread... ;-)
The 4790 is about 35% faster than my laptops i5 in multi-threaded benchmarks, and my i5 is plenty powerful for 1080P gaming at framerates far exceeding 60 fps in pretty much every game I've tried.
Division 2 got a built in benchmark that was not included in Beta, I hope we will get a performance review on TPU , it's a good game visually and the gameplay in also good especially for co-op.