Spider-Man 2 Performance Benchmark

[Chrispy_]

So, RayTracing is a dead end. 6,5 years on the market and still unavailable to general public, unles You have $1K for a GPU alone. Also, with devs so lazy, TechPowerUp has to step up Its game and, like TechSpot start adding tests with Medium and High for people to know what playable settings They can expect with Their under-$1K GPUs. In the past You could simply wait with Your game purchase, and next gen GPU would improve Your frame rates, now that They came to the end of the rope with process shrinking, We no longer get to improve our PCs, unless emmigrate to the US and get a better paid job.

I just google "<game> <graphics card>" and there's almost never a shortage of people testing that game with that graphics card at all settings.

IMO, Techpowerup testing at max settings perfectly highlights the problem with RT and why, despite all the promises, it's rarely worth it for most people. Even if you'd splashed out on a PS5's worth of graphics card a generation or two ago, your RTX 2070 and RTX 3070 has aged terribly in the one thing it was named for.

My son's busy playing SM2 on a 1060 3GB. Getting surprisingly smooth gameplay (goes 35-55fps) on a 1080p60 TV. No crashes as yet, but some odd game bugs. He wants a new GPU but we're waiting on the next game patch first, as there are literally hundreds of bug reports - mostly with 40 series Nvidia cards, it seems, but also better AMDs too.

I told him he should wait a few months, but he'd played SM1 and MM (which were waaay less demanding, hardware-wise) and had been looking forward to this for so long.

That's why I linked the GTX 1060 video up above - not that long ago (mid 2022) it was the most popular GPU on the Steam hardware survey. Plenty of people are still using them!

 

[3valatzy]

This game looks really poor. Even the more-than-10-year-old Crysis 3 looks considerably better and more modern.

VS:

At least, it shows that 16 GB VRAM is a no-go already!

 

[Yearofthegoat]

That's why I linked the GTX 1060 video up above - not that long ago (mid 2022) it was the most popular GPU on the Steam hardware survey. Plenty of people are still using them!

Yeah I bought it for Zwifting in the garage. He's using my HTPC, which until Thursday night had an 8GB RX580 Nitro+ in it. But that card isn't allowed to run the game due to the drivers (you need 25.1.1). So, given that an upgrade is probably long overdue anyway, we're looking for an AMD card* like the 7800XT perhaps. Which is what brought me to the TPU test round-up. Very useful indeed.

*need frame-packed 3D, plus ideally 4k60 (HTPC is attached to a TV and a 4K projector). The 1060 isn't nearly as good at keeping 23.976 movies sync'd as the 580 and doesn't easily do 3D mvc playback.

 

[Nin]

I'm happy to see that plenty of people in the comments recognise how much work TPU put into these benchmarks, and I'll gladly join them. Thanks for this massive benchmark. This is why I support TPU.

 

[Chrispy_]

I'm happy to see that plenty of people in the comments recognise how much work TPU put into these benchmarks, and I'll gladly join them. Thanks for this massive benchmark. This is why I support TPU.

The side-by-sides with drop downs for various settings is really valuable. It's so much more useful than YouTube vids that rarely zoom in enough to overcome the terrible compression of YouTube.

 

[xSneak]

I can't really tell much of a difference between medium and RT ultimate outside of the shadows and reflections on glass in the outdoors scene. It's really annoying see all the comments in benchmark after benchmark about people complaining about optimization on games, claiming they need a 4090 or 5090 to play when they could just turn the settings down.

The "Max" quality benchmarks we always see feel misleading because of that.

 

[MaG17]

My 1660 super is gonna cry with this one

 

[kane nas]

Well done for the effort but I can't understand how almost half of the 7800xt's frames were lost in 4k non RT resolution? I tried the same settings in 3 different scenes and the loss was always at 15%.

 

[napata]

It's funny seeing the total shift in PC gaming where a decade ago running below console settings was unthinkable and now it's common advice. PS5 runs this just fine with RT in every single mode, even the performance mode has RT.

 

[Chrispy_]

I can't really tell much of a difference between medium and RT ultimate outside of the shadows and reflections on glass in the outdoors scene. It's really annoying see all the comments in benchmark after benchmark about people complaining about optimization on games, claiming they need a 4090 or 5090 to play when they could just turn the settings down.

The "Max" quality benchmarks we always see feel misleading because of that.

I feel like the RT lighting (ambient occlusion, mostly) is closest to raster medium or high settings.
Based on W1zzard's screenshots, I think I'd be playing this game at non-RT high settings, as the AO seems overdone at higher quality levels.

 

[Daven]

PThink of the RT option as a wholly optional game mode that you're free to ignore, like those tick boxes for ambient lighting sync or HairWorks. It doesn't make sense to me to complain so bitterly that it exists. It's bad; leave it off.

We are complaining because Nvidia makes us pay for something we never asked for or wanted. GPUs are so expensive because of the added RT and tensor garbage Nvidia pushes on the gaming community.

Do I have the option of paying less for a geforce product by buying a non-RT version? No! And for that reason RT better work and better be worth it. But it’s not!

I don’t remember paying $500-$1000 extra dollars on a GPU for Hairworks or ambient lighting sync.

 

[freeagent]

This game has low requirements but just thrashes modern hardware lol.