Test System

Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.

We tested the public release version of Dying Light 2, including the 1.0.3 patch, not a press preview version. Both AMD and NVIDIA have released game-ready drivers for the game, which we used.

Graphics Memory Usage

In a first VRAM test, we're checking the memory usage of the various renderers, all at the same details setting. Only ray tracing was activated on top for a single run. Wow!


AMD vs. NVIDIA VRAM usage shows that AMD graphics cards typically use around 800 MB of additional memory.

Renderer Performance

Next, I benched the renderer options with a selection of graphics cards, at Highest Settings, again with RT disabled.

Surprisingly, DirectX 11 comes out on top, in almost every scenario, but the differences are small.

GPU Performance

FPS Analysis

In this section, we're comparing each card's performance to the average FPS measured in our graphics card reviews, which is based on a mix of 22 games and should provide a realistic average covering a wide range of APIs, engines, and genres.