![]() The 'Ultra Performance' mode gives the biggest increase, but if you're playing at 1080p then give that a miss as it really muddies the visuals, and I personally don't think it's worth the sacrifice on such a good-looking game as Metro Exodus is now. Even the top-end 'Quality' setting will deliver higher frame rates than the DLSS 1.0 implementation of the original game, and going for 'Performance' will make a huge difference to your overall frame rate without hugely impacting fidelity. If you're rocking an Nvidia GPU then absolutely your first recourse to discovering extra frame rate performance should be the DLSS options. We were quite happily playing on 'Ultra' at 4K with an RTX 3060 Ti on our mid-range rig with the 'Performance' DLSS setting, and that claims to need an RTX 3080 for 4K at 30 fps. The base Quality setting is a good starting point for straight performance, but the magic DLSS bullet can make a big difference if you're on the green team. ![]() At 1080p you're rendering at such a low resolution the AI upsampling doesn't have as much to work with and you do get some noise in the most detailed areas of a scene, and shimmering around fine lines, such as the trees. Though, if I'm honest, I'd probably steer clear of the 'Ultra performance' mode at the lower resolutions. Use that as a jumping off point and you can pick up anywhere from 20 to nearly 50 fps higher performance with the different DLSS settings. Even at the least aggressive, most aesthetically pleasing end of the preset spectrum-'DLSS Quality'-you're still getting higher frame rates than the original version could offer, and with a far higher fidelity too. The main takeaway of our testing is that regardless of what else you do with the in-game settings you absolutely have to enable DLSS if your GPU is capable. The original game employed DLSS 1.0 to give RT gamers a bump on their frame rates, but as a first-gen implementation of the tech it sometimes delivered a rather muddy, blurry image.ĭLSS 2.0 is a whole new game of balls, however, works even at 1080p, and now comes with four different presets as opposed to just on/off. (Image credit: 4A Games) Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition DLSS performanceĪs a card carrying member of the DLSS 2.0 club, the Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition gets access to the latest and greatest version of Nvidia's ever-impressive super sampling feature. But Nvidia users don't really have to worry about this level of performance because they have something special the red team still doesn't: DLSS. This should give you an idea of how an equivalent modern AMD graphics card, such as the Radeon RX 6800 XT (opens in new tab), should perform. On 'High' with its 25% 'Normal' RT setting the high-end PC is now able to get to near 60 fps at 4K, while the MSI 3060 Ti in the mid-range rig is happily nailing 1440p. Especially if we start to twiddle the settings knobs. With a 1440p result of 52 fps, that's getting on for being eminently playable. Step that down to 'Ultra' and our mid-range machine starts to be able to get a foothold on the performance mountain. ![]() It's only at 1080p where our $3,000 rig is able to shade over 60 fps on average. You can see that even on our high-end rig, with MSI's mighty RTX 3080 and AMD's Ryzen 9 5900X (opens in new tab) doing the heavy lifting, the demands that full resolution ray tracing puts on the system. So it's down to the MSI RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 2x and MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio to give us a proper bead on Metro's new gaming chops. ![]() That's because our representative budget machine, the Arctic Stealth (it's white and eschews RGB), is only running an MSI GTX 1650 Super Gaming X, and with the best will in the world that's no ray tracing GPU. We've only tested Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition on the new mid-range and high-end PC Gamer test rigs (opens in new tab), that's Mellow Yellow and Hot Pink, to give them their full titles. But how does this enhanced edition perform compared with the original incarnation, and what are the best settings to tweak if you want to boost performance? The original was, which is why we still use it to test the latest GPUs. As our partner for these detailed performance analyses, MSI provided the hardware we needed to test Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition on different PC gaming hardware.Īs one of the first big names to release with ray tracing capable hardware as a minimum requirement-even though it's essentially a free upgrade for a two year-old game-Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition is going to be demanding on your hardware.
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