Graphics Settings

• The Window mode options are "windowed" and "borderless," there is no exclusive fullscreen mode
• V-Sync can be disabled completely, there is no hidden FPS cap
• The framerate limiter can be in a range of 30 FPS to 320 FPS
• Upscalers available are TAA, DLSS, FSR and XeSS
• Native AA upscaling is supported, the "Ultra Performance" setting isn't
• Frame generation supports FSR and DLSS, you may mix upscalers, so users of GeForce 30 cards can use DLSS upscaling with FSR frame generation.
• Your can disable motion blur and chromatic aberration

• The "Raytraced Global Illumination" setting controls where ray tracing is active in the game. If you select "Diffuse Hideout only," then RT will be disabled for most of the actual gameplay, and only enabled in your "house," which is a safe area without fighting. On cards without RT cores, the game uses a shader-based fallback. The other two options are "Diffuse Everywhere" and "Diffuse + Specular Everywhere." Specular deals with the highlights on shiny objects.
• The performance presets are "low," "medium," "high," very high," and "ultra high." Even at ultra high, not all settings are maximized, so there's a little bit of additional headroom
• Ray tracing Quality seems to control the number of bounces and density of rays
• BVH Quality controls the geometric detail level of the BVH (Bounding Volume Hierarchy) data structure. It is used to improve ray tracing performance by organizing objects into a group of bounding volumes. You can't really "see" this BVH in game, changing it might affect the accuracy of RT effects, but will also help with performance and memory consumption.
• In addition to that, there's a good amount of additional options to fine-tune the performance.

Test System

• We tested the public Steam release of Assassin's Creed Shadows, not a press release build
• We used the newest drivers from all the GPU vendors. AMD, NVIDIA and Intel all have released Game Ready drivers.
• Our benchmarking scene uses real in-game gameplay in an open world location, not the integrated automated benchmark that isn't fully representative of the actual gaming experience.