Conclusion

If you have played a Deus Ex game before, you will feel right at home with Mankind Divided. For novice players, several tutorials have been added to teach the sneaking and cover mechanics.

Graphics on Ultra are stunning and definitely look 2016 thanks to crisp high-resolution textures. The game's settings also offer lots of dials to adjust performance to your system's capability - and you'll need them. Performance is quite low across the board; even a GTX 1080 can barely handle Ultra 1080p, no way to run 4K. On AMD, the game generally runs a lot better, but you won't be getting higher FPS than on a GTX 1080 since AMD lacks a high-end option. In our graphics cards reviews, the GTX 1060 conclusively beat the RX 480 when looking at DirectX 11 titles, which Mankind Divided is until the DirectX 12 patch comes out in September. Here, we see a different picture, with the RX 480 being 10% faster than the GTX 1060 in all our tests, even at up to 20% in some cases. NVIDIA's previous-generation GTX 980 Ti is barely faster than the RX 480, which is much slower than the Fury X, even though the Fury X only has 4 GB of VRAM.

Even though the settings dialog warns you about the fact that you should really have a card with at least 4 GB VRAM as soon as you touch anything that looks demanding, in-game memory usage is not unreasonable considering that high-end cards today have 8 GB VRAM. In our testing at Ultra 4K, we saw VRAM peak at 5.5 GB, but no card on the market today is able to deliver good framerates at that resolution. Once you dial down settings, memory usage goes down quickly as well. At High and 1920x1080, it didn't even surpass 2 GB, which is good news for cards like the GTX 1060 3 GB and RX 480 4 GB.