Welcome to mikegolden Games and welcome back to another Watch Dogs Legion benchmark
I hope you guys enjoyed the last one where we benchmarked this game in 4k ultra settings with
dlss turned on and off to see the difference so for this one again we have the Ryzen 9 5950x cpu
it is in the Asus crosshair 8 formula motherboard we are also running the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
xc3 ultra by Evga by Evga and we are running also and we also have the corsair iq h100i rgb pro xt
240 millimeter aio liquid cooler hooked up to that ryzen processor so like i was saying for this one
we are going to be playing this game for this one we are going to be doing the benchmark in 1080p
to see the difference and we're also recording with obs studio on the more cpu bound
encoding software so we'll see how this runs because 1080p it likes to really go to the cpu
compared to the gpu if you know the difference between the two sets anyways i digress let's uh
go over here check the settings directx 12 custom ultra ultra ultra 4 cars ultra depth of field on
motion blur turned off because who needs that a bloom turned on ambient occlusion on everything
is on subsurface scattering is turned on high because that's as high as it will go ray tracing
reflections ultra dlss ultra performance extra detail 100 and temporal up scaling 100. so let's
run this benchmark and see how this does in 1080p compared to 4k if you haven't go check out that 4k
episode and let me know what you think in the comments below i really do hope you enjoy it
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all right let's check out the stats so we had a max fps of 105 average fps of 70 a minimum
fps of 29 a 1 low of 52 and a point one percent low of 49. okay uh again this game uses so much
vram and the new 3080 gpus only have 10 gigs of vram it's really approaching that even on 1080p
maxed out settings it's it's almost maxing out the gpu which is a little worrying i'm not gonna
lie i'm a little nervous about that uh ram we only used 6.45 gigs cpu load 67 gpu load 98 so
uh i guess what we're gonna do now is turn off dlss just like in the previous benchmark see what
that does next up we're gonna run the benchmark again with obs studio completely turned off so
we can actually get again a one-to-one performance ratio how it would be if you're just playing the
game without the recording software because that really does lower the frame rates by maybe 10 to
20 frames depends on the situation so let's do that now all right so with obs completely turned
off we had a max fps of 126 an average fps of 85 minimum fps of 54 which this definitely looks like
it's doing a lot better uh one percent low at 61 and a point one percent low of 58. again vram was
8.02 ram 6.39 cpu load 36 and gpu load 99 so it does increase your frame rates when you are
not recording who would have thought so again it may be a good idea in this day and age to still
use a dual pc setup which now that i built this secondary pc i really should try and hook up both
of them so i can record on one and play on the other anyways uh let's run this benchmark again
with dlss turned off and see what kind of fps we can get because with the 4k dls turned off
we were getting about 20 to 21 fps performance you know i wonder if we turned it on quality
i should probably try that as well but we'll turn that off and run the benchmark one more time
ah yes let's see what we can get
i mean it's definitely better than 20 fps but it's still under 60.
okay take a look at the uh reflection quality with dialysis turned off
it looks better more crispy reflections and everything like the water
so we'll turn on it to quality instead of ultra performance and see if we notice the
difference and how the frame rate is as well i didn't think to do that for the 4k version
man look at those crisp reflections that looks amazing
all right we'll just end it here because we didn't finish the benchmark on that one
in the last one either this was just to see the fps difference
but let's go to the options really quick video and turn that on to dlss onto
quality and let's apply that run the benchmark one more time and see what that looks like
yeah i don't know how i feel about these reflections let me know in the comments below
what you guys think and if you have found a better alternative or the better way to have the game
look better i mean those reflections actually do look pretty decent on on quality settings for dlss
definitely better than ultra performance we are at a solid almost solid 60fps that's not too bad
all right so we'll just end it there all right guys i'm gonna leave this one here i hope you
enjoyed it let me know what you thought in the comments below if you have any suggestions or
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