That's still pretty darn smooth as far as I'm concerned, but it didn't take much to push those scores back closer to 60fps. Starting with my Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming card, this managed an average of 52fps on my High but Ultra Texture quality preset, and 54fps on pure High. GTX 1070and GTX 1660 owners may have to tweak a few settings, admittedly, but in both cases we're still looking at highly playable frame rates in the 50-60fps zone. And when I changed the Texture Quality to High? I got an average of 59fps. In fact, I managed to get an average of 58fps with just a GTX 1660 Super (Zotac's entry level GeForce GTX 1660 Super Twin Fan edition, to be specific), and that was using a custom preset where I'd set everything to High with x4 Anisotropic Filtering and left the Texture Quality on Ultra (because boy is it keen for you to always have Ultra-fied textures).
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However, the idea that you'd need a monster PC with an RTX 2060 (which, let's not forget, is roughly equivalent in speed to a GTX 1070 Ti), an Intel Core i9-9900K and 32GB of RAM like the one Nvidia used in their tests to get 60fps on mostly High settings at 1080p is, frankly, nonsense. Turns out this game scrubs up quite nicely on plenty of GTX cards. As such, the GTX 1060 managed an average of 56fps on a mixture of Low-Medium settings, and 49fps on the next preset up that had a greater focus on pure Medium settings. There are 21 different quality presets in Red Dead Redemption 2, and they all change depending on what graphics card you've got in your PC, making it nigh on impossible to get a uniform set of results across multiple GPUs. Whereas most games tend to stick with simple names like 'Low', 'Medium', 'High' and 'Ultra', for example, Red Dead Redemption 2 has a sliding, 21-step scale that goes from 'Favour Performance' to 'Balanced' to 'Favour Quality'.
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I say Medium-ish, as Red Dead Redemption 2's quality presets are a bit strange compared to other games.
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After all, an RTX 2060 is generally what I'd recommend for playing games at 2560x1440 these days, so to say you'd need this kind of calibre card for 1080p on not even the highest possible quality settings in RDR2 just didn't sound right - especially when Rockstar's own PC requirements for the game only recommends a GTX 1060.įortunately, I've finally been able to do some proper testing of my own after today's 1.14 patch fixed my Rockstar launcher woes, so I no longer have to use my lasso on Matthew's PC to do a bit of benchmarking - and I'm happy to report Red Dead 2's PC performance is a lot more promising for lower-end graphics card owners.Īlas, as I explained in my initial Red Dead Redemption 2 PC settings test on Wednesday, the GTX 1060 is really only cut out for 60fps on Medium-ish settings at 1080p, as introducing a greater number of High settings started to push its average frame rate down to around 45fps when I ran its built-in benchmark. Earlier this week, Nvidia claimed you'd need one of their RTX 2060 cards to hit 60fps on High quality settings at 1920x1080 in Red Dead Redemption 2, which at the time sounded rather excessive.