Counter-Strike 2 Performance Benchmark Review - 40 GPUs Tested 100

Counter-Strike 2 Performance Benchmark Review - 40 GPUs Tested

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Graphics Settings

  • The game supports windowed, borderless and fullscreen.
  • On a laptop, the power settings can be disabled, to maximize gaming FPS
  • There's four quality presets "Very High," "High," "Medium" and "Low"
  • V-Sync can be disabled completely, there is no hidden FPS cap
  • Unlike most other games, multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) is available, it can be selected up to 8xMSAA
  • Besides that there's many options to improve performance, and on top of that there's dozens of console configuration variables to further fine-tune everything. It looks like almost everything from CS:GO can be used.

Test System

Test System
Processor:Intel Core i9-13900K
Raptor Lake, 5.8 GHz, 8+16 cores / 32 threads
PL1 = PL2 = 320 W
Motherboard:EVGA Z790 Dark
BIOS 1.13
Resizable BAR:Enabled on all supported cards
(NVIDIA, AMD & Intel)
Memory:Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG
2x 16 GB DDR5-6000 MHz 36-38-38-76
Cooling:Arctic Liquid Freezer II
280 mm AIO
Thermal Paste:Arctic MX-6
Storage:2x Neo Forza NFP455 2 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Power Supply:Seasonic Vertex GX 850 W
ATX 3.0 / 16-pin 12VHPWR
Case:darkFlash DLX4000 Mesh
Operating System:Windows 11 Professional 64-bit 22H2
VBS enabled (Windows 11 default)
Drivers: NVIDIA: 537.42 WHQL
AMD: 23.9.3 WHQL
Intel: 101.4826 Beta
Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.

We tested the public steam release of Counter-Strike 2 (not a pres preview version). While AMD has released released game-ready drivers, NVIDIA and Intel haven't done so yet, so we used the latest drivers available.
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