[TPU]Destiny 2 Beta: Performance Analysis

[Jaydip]

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Performance_Analysis/Destiny_2_Beta/

looks like a decently optimized game but NV has a slight edge.

 

[Head1985]

better test with aftermarket cards
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Destiny-2-Spiel-59880/Specials/Benchmark-Test-Review-1237269/

Edit:2k results

 

[EXCellR8]

ran fine @ 3440x1440 on my aging RX 480 8GB; i should be able to test it out with Vega this weekend.

hopefully there are some better Vega cards by the time the full game gets released. Should get better with driver support also.

 

[ddogg]

Running great @3440x1440 on my 1080Ti with everything maxed out except AA. Setting it to MSAA causes frames to literally drop in half with close to no difference in image quality. FXAA or SMAA is the way to go.

 

[Face2Face]

Game even runs decently on really old hardware - HD 5770 1GB @ 720p - Low settings. Even at low settings the game looks great; not much difference between low and medium.

 

[railven]

Running great @3440x1440 on my 1080Ti with everything maxed out except AA. Setting it to MSAA causes frames to literally drop in half with close to no difference in image quality. FXAA or SMAA is the way to go.

I didn't test MSAA personally, but through SMAA on. Went through the options and made sure to put everything at highest option. Game ran great for me. Definitely going to be a day 1 for me.

Also used 3440x1440, with G-Sync paying for the investment, Frame rates hovered between 80-100 (capped), and not a single hitch or tear.

 

[ZGR]

I'm amazed at how well optimized this game is for GPU performance. I honestly thought my 1070 would not be up to par for 4k60 performance, but it easily does it at nearly max settings! Just turn off MSAA and lower shadows to High and I'm good to go!

I think a GTX 1060/RX 480 can do 4k60 at low medium settings as well! Great work Bungie!

Only performance issue is CPU. I can't maintain 120+ fps in PvE. This means CPU performance in the Raid on full release for high refresh rates may be a bit low.

I plan on upgrading to 4k144hz ASAP so this is a problem. This game is made to play at 4k!!! It is beautiful

 

[ddogg]

I fired it up on my 4k monitor and while it does look nice, I prefer it on my 1440p ultrawide GSync. The screen tearing is also extremely annoying. Good thing is by just setting AA to fxaa I can get a close to ~60fps with everything else maxed out. Very well optimized game for sure.

 

[SPBHM]

5850 runs the game pretty ok on low, I had a crash once but no other glitches, seems like one of the most old card friendly games from recent times.

seems like it should be easy for any current card to run it at 60FPS (if you lower a few settings on the slower ones at least), and 60FPS feels really nice on this game with kb+mouse, a shame Destiny 1 was not out on PC.

 

[24601]

I played the "beta" demo and the game really has next to nothing on screen at the same time and either very small areas or very large super un-detailed areas (that benefits majorly from LOD).

They nerfed the gameplay hard to fit it into 4+1-3 core jaguar @ 30 fps.

It had the same or less screen complexity (in terms of gameplay) as Halo 3.

 

[ZGR]

I fired it up on my 4k monitor and while it does look nice, I prefer it on my 1440p ultrawide GSync. The screen tearing is also extremely annoying. Good thing is by just setting AA to fxaa I can get a close to ~60fps with everything else maxed out. Very well optimized game for sure.

I had no tearing at 4k60 on my gsync display, and I found it quite enjoyable. If I could have maintained a solid 144hz+ I probably would be playing on my high refresh rate monitor instead tbh.

I played the "beta" demo and the game really has next to nothing on screen at the same time and either very small areas or very large super un-detailed areas (that benefits majorly from LOD).

They nerfed the gameplay hard to fit it into 4+1-3 core jaguar @ 30 fps.

It had the same or less screen complexity (in terms of gameplay) as Halo 3.

I get big Halo 3 vibes as well, especially with the strike level design with the large vistas. The consoles certainly are at their limit with AI, but for PC, we are seeing an FPS limit too. During scenes with highest amount of AI, my CPU is quite hammered and I am unsure if it is multithreaded.

I would prefer to see 5x as many AI, but this will keep me at 60hz

 

[ddogg]

I had no tearing at 4k60 on my gsync display, and I found it quite enjoyable. If I could have maintained a solid 144hz+ I probably would be playing on my high refresh rate monitor instead tbh.

I only have a 1440p ultrawide Gsync. My 4k is not a Gsync panel so it was screen tear city 4k/60 Gsync would definitely be a much better experience for sure.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Just gave it a few hours on my rig (4.5GHz 6700k, 1080gtx slightly oc'd), hovered mostly around 100-120fps @1440p, not sure that it ever dipped to double digits, and would hit 144fps if I was in a hallway/staring at a wall or something. Performs admirably.

Having said that, those cinematic are embarrassing @30fps by comparison.

 

[Carfax83]

I'm tempted to download this. How big is the download, and where can I download it from?

*Edit* Never mind found it.

 

[MBrown]

The beta ran buttery smooth on my rig. Most of the time it was between 100 and 130 with the lowest I saw at 75. I was running at 1440p with Everything high except for textures on highest, dof at low, and shadows at medium. I had SMAA on. The only gripe I have really is that I still see quite a bit of jaggies with SMAA.

 

[Rasterizer]

According to GN:

This chart shows the RX 580 8GB card at 1440p, using Highest – FXAA as a baseline and High Preset as our target number. We toggled a few settings between Highest and High, ultimately finding that the Depth of Field setting is responsible for about a 38% performance hit on its own, as switching to High boosts FPS from 38 to 62 AVG. 3DAO is responsible for about a 13% hit on its own, moving us to 44FPS from 38FPS AVG.

If you’d like to play on Highest settings without sacrificing too much performance, these are the two options immediately worth tweaking. They seem to presently impact AMD most noticeably.

Anyone happen to know which aspects of GPU performance would be most responsible for DoF and 3DAO performance in this game?

 

[ZGR]

Too bad the Beta is no more, I really wanted to investigate Depth of Field some more. I had 3DAO enabled the majority of the time at 4k, with no performance issues, but once I enabled max DoF, my performance went down from a locked 60 -> 40!

The worst part was, I could barely tell the difference with DoF on max and DoF on medium....