Dark Souls 3 GPU Performance - AMD vs NVIDIA

Namco Bandai has released the lasted Dark Souls to the earth in the course of Dark Souls 3 (you can read our review here, in case y'all haven't already). The game is ready to run at at 60fps cap on the PC. The basic organization requirements aren't annihilation to run off a newcomer to the serial, but what about those who want to crank the settings at 1080P, 1440P, and 4K?

Minimum specs

OS: Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows eight.1 64bit Windows ten 64bit
Processor: AMD A8 3870 three.6 Ghz or Intel Cadre i3 2100 3.1Ghz
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 / ATI Radeon Hard disk 6870
DirectX: Version eleven
Network: Broadband Net connection
Storage: 50 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX eleven audio device

Recommended specs

OS: Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows eight.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit
Processor: AMD FX 8150 three.half dozen GHz or Intel Core™ i7 2600 iii.4 GHz
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, ATI Radeon HD 7850
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: l GB available space

Before we jump into the benchmarks we wanted to take a moment to share with the visual differences between the settings with these 4K screenshots, so you have an idea of the visual impact these settings accept on the game.

Our Haswell based test demote:

Component	Selection
CPU	Intel Core i7-4770k (4.2ghz)
Motherboard	Asus Maximus Half-dozen Hero
Ability Supply	Cooler Main V1200 platinum
HDD	Crucial MX100 512gb
Storage Deejay	Seagate 4TB SSHD
Memory	16gb DDR3 Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
Monitor	Monoprice Crystalview 4k

Operating System	Window 10 64-Bit

Hither's a listing of the graphics cards used in this GPU functioning comparison below. For Radeon nosotros used Crimson xvi.4.i and for Geforce we used Geforce 364.72 drivers.

XFX R9 380 Xxx OC
EVGA GTX 960 SSC
XFX R9 390
PNY GTX 980 XLR8
AMD R9 Nano
Sapphire R9 Fury 10
EVGA GTX 980ti Hybrid

This is a screenshot of the settings used for each resolution; nosotros kept the settings consistent beyond all resolutions for parity.

settings

In this video we show the course used for these benchmarks, and then you can run across but how we got our results. We ran the course iii times with each GPU and took the averages of both minimums and average FPS to gather our concluding results.

1080P

We first tested 1080P and only included the R9 380 and GTX 960 for this test every bit all the other GPUs in the lineup kept the frame rate at its locked 60fps.

1080p

1440P

This is where things go interesting; nosotros included all of the video cards in our lineup in this examination.

1440p

2160P (4K)

For our last test we dropped the R9 380 and GTX 960 from these comparisons as neither card is suitable for 4K gaming with this championship.

Decision

It was definitely a breath of fresh air to have been able to work through these benchmarks. In the stop AMD walks abroad with a mid range victory here with the R9 380 edging out the GTX 960 in both 1080p and 1440p. Even though we do not have a GTX 970 on manus, it's fair to say that the R9 390 holds up very well even when compared to its heavier weight opponent the GTX 980. But it's in the high finish segment that NVIDIA walks away with the crown as the GTX 980ti holds a healthy lead over the R9 Fury X, assuasive for nearly abiding 60fps at 1440p and arguably playable at 4k with the settings maxed out.