Released this week on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, Ubisoft's new motion preventing game "For Honor" puts you in control of medieval-styled knights, vikings and samurai, each of which has 4 instructions that can be performed thru the single player campaign as well as 5 on line modes. We will of path be searching at the PC model and as ordinary may not be focusing too much at the gameplay, but alternatively seeing what sort of hardware it takes to strength this new triple-A title.

Built upon the identical AnvilNext 2.0 engine as 2014's Assassin's Creed Unity, 2015's Rainbow Six Siege, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and the latest open beta of Ghost Recon Wildlands, this engine has been taken gain of by means of a few superb titles over the last few years and need to be pretty optimized.

However, game enthusiasts were worried approximately how the identify may run on PC, understanding that Ubisoft's music file has been spotty at first-class. The beta performance of Ghost Recon Wildlands changed into less than applicable as an example, even as Watch Dogs 2 added most gaming rigs to their knees.

Thankfully, the coolest news is that For Honor sincerely appears well optimized and there are a heap of tweakable settings at the PC model in addition to a useful built-in benchmark tool.

The recreation's show menu helps you to allow or disable vsync, trade the resolution and element ratio in addition to the display mode or even reveal. Meanwhile, the pix menu presents 4 presets which have been labelled low, medium, excessive and excessive. For trying out, I used the acute preset to peer what it takes to run this game in all of its glory.

Extreme puts settings like texture filtering to 16x, permits TAA anti-aliasing, motion blur, dynamic reflections and MHBAO ambient occlusion, in addition to maxing out the geometric element, texture pleasant, dynamic shadows and surroundings detail.

For the ones of you questioning, Ubisoft recommends gamers use a CPU this is identical to or greater than the Core i5-2500K or AMD FX-6350, in conjunction with 8GB of machine reminiscence and a GeForce GTX 680 or Radeon R9 280X. Those aren't exactly steep requirements so I'm eager to see how the sport runs at the state-of-the-art and previous era GPUs.

I should word that that is an Nvidia-sponsored name and Nvidia has GameReady drivers to be had. AMD has additionally managed to sneak out an early assist motive force that is stated to enhance RX 480 performance via four-5%.

Testing Methodology

We benchmarked For Honor the usage of our Core i7-7700K check gadget which sees the processor strolling at 4.9GHz with 32GB of DDR4-3000 memory. The performance numbers you're about to look are primarily based at the built-in benchmark which I found to do a pretty accurate job of mimicking in-game overall performance, at the least as a long way because the GPU is involved.

I did find that the processor became taxed an awful lot more heavily while truly playing the sport and that being the case the CPU numbers are based on actual recreation play in the course of what I discovered to be a in particular CPU-worrying scene.

Since the sport appears nicely optimized, we didn't discover it necessary to test many exceptional presets and as a substitute focused on inclusive of each images card we had reachable. We tested three fashionable resolutions: 1080p, 1440p and 4K.

The state-of-the-art AMD and Nvidia pictures drivers have been used for checking out and it must be stated that both camps have been actively working to improve help for his or her competing GPUs in For Honor. AMD's Crimson 17.2.1 ReLive improves guide and performance, even as Nvidia has been doing an awful lot the identical and it's well worth noting that the employer's 378.sixty six launch is its 2nd recreation-equipped motive force.

Test System Specs

  • Intel Core i7-7700K (4.90GHz)
  • Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4-3000 32GB
  • Asrock Z270 Taichi (Intel Z270)
  • Corsair RMx Series RM750x 750-watt
  • Samsung SSD 850 Pro 2TB
  • Microsoft Windows 10 Pro sixty four-bit
  • Nvidia GeForce 378.66 WHQL
  • AMD Crimson 17.2.1 ReLive
  • Radeon RX 480 (8192MB)
  • Radeon RX 470 (4096MB)
  • Radeon RX 460 (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 Fury X (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 Fury (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 Nano (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 390X (8192MB)
  • Radeon R9 390 (8192MB)
  • Radeon R9 380X (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 380 (2048MB)
  • Radeon R7 360 (2048MB)
  • Radeon R9 290X (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 290 (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 285 (2048MB)
  • Radeon R9 280X (3072MB)
  • Radeon R9 280 (3072MB)
  • Radeon R9 270X (2048MB)
  • Radeon R9 270 (2048MB)
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz (3072MB)
  • Radeon HD 7970 (3072MB)
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost (3072MB)
  • Radeon HD 7950 (3072MB)
  • Radeon HD 7870 (2048MB)
  • Nvidia Titan X (12288MB)
  • GeForce GTX 1080 (8192MB)
  • GeForce GTX 1070 (8192MB)
  • GeForce GTX 1060 (6144MB)
  • GeForce GTX 1060 (3072MB)
  • GeForce GTX 1050 (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4096MB)
  • GeForce GTX Titan (6144MB)
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti (6144MB)
  • GeForce GTX 980 (4096MB)
  • GeForce GTX 970 (4096MB)
  • GeForce GTX 960 (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 950 (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti (3072MB)
  • GeForce GTX 780 (3072MB)
  • GeForce GTX 770 (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 760 (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 680 (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti (2048MB)

Benchmarks: 1080p Performance

For the ones of you concentrated on 60fps at 1080p, the RX 470 or GTX 1060 3GB can be required. That stated, ageing weaponry inclusive of the GTX 780 Ti and R9 290X supplied sturdy overall performance right here, pushing properly over 60fps on average.

In truth, using the acute first-rate preset we find that For Honor is incredibly GPU-pleasant at 1080p. For a 50fps common, dated cards which includes the Radeon HD 7950 Boost and GeForce GTX 680 hold up well.