Senua's Saga: Hellblade II Performance Benchmark Review 65

Senua's Saga: Hellblade II Performance Benchmark Review

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Graphics Settings

  • The "Accessibility" menu near the top has a setting to set Motion Blur to zero (down from the default maximum of 10)
  • Hellblade II supports running windowed and borderless, there is no exclusive fullscreen setting. You can achieve this through manual config edits though (set FullscreenMode=0).
  • You may disable V-Sync, there is no hidden FPS cap and the game isn't CPU limited at all
  • Upscale Method supports "DLSS," "FSR," "XeSS" and "TSR," which is Unreal Engine's own temporal upscaler
  • With TSR you can set the scaling level as a percentage (or 100% for native)
  • There is no option for "no upscaling," but TSR + 100% scaling is the closest thing
  • FSR has support for "Native AA," which is AMD's equivalent to NVIDIA DLAA
  • DLAA is supported, too
  • When you enable DLSS Frame Generation, you MUST select a DLSS scaling mode, but "DLAA" is an option
  • There's three quality presets "Low," "Medium" and "High." Selecting "High" sets quality to maximum, you don't have to manually adjust any other setting.
  • Besides that there are several additional options for performance fine-tuning, as our comparison screenshots show, there's very little visual difference, but a pretty serious performance delta between them.

Test System

Test System - GPU 2024.2
Processor:Intel Core i9-14900K
Raptor Lake, 6.0 GHz, 8+16 cores / 32 threads
PL1 = PL2 = 330 W
Motherboard:MSI Z790 Carbon Wi-Fi II
BIOS 7D89vA3
Resizable BAR:Enabled on all supported cards
(NVIDIA, AMD & Intel)
Memory:Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG
2x 16 GB DDR5-7200 MHz 36-46-46-96
Cooling:Arctic Liquid Freezer II
280 mm AIO
Thermal Paste:Arctic MX-6
Storage:2x 2 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Power Supply:Seasonic Vertex GX 850 W
ATX 3.0 / 16-pin 12VHPWR
Case:darkFlash DRX70 Mesh
Operating System:Windows 11 Professional 64-bit 23H2
VBS enabled (Windows 11 default)
Drivers: NVIDIA: 555.85 WHQL
AMD: 24.5.1 WHQL
Intel: 101.5522 WHQL
Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.

We tested the public Steam release of Senua's Saga: Hellblade II. We used the newest drivers from all the GPU vendors, which all have Game Ready support for the game.
Jun 30th, 2025 18:05 CDT change timezone

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