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Horizon Zero Dawn is not very well optimized on older GPUs

The Radeon RX580, RX Vega 64, and GTX 980 Ti offer relatively similar frames per second.

As of August 7, PC gamers can enjoy Guerrilla’s Horizon Zero Dawn game. The title was released initially released on PlayStation 4 in 2017. It remained to discover how the software would behave on the platform that hosts it. For now it suffers from some bugs. Among these, the absence of an anisotropic filter, the presence of jerks, or even certain animations blocked at 30 frames per second. In addition, other more specific bugs appear. For example, the lack of deformation of the snow, as shown in the video below.

Logically, it is assumed that Guerrilla will correct these inconveniences via a future patch. In any case, the studio is working on it. Now if you are wondering how the game runs on PC, the site DSOGaming offers a complete file on the subject. The key points are set out below.

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The title makes good use of the cores / threads at its disposal

As a preamble, remember the minimum configuration recommended for Horizon Zero Dawn: Intel Core i5-2500K processor at 3.3 GHz or AMD FX 6300 at 3.5 GHz, 8 GB of memory and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 graphics card (3 GB) or AMD Radeon R9 290 (4 GB).

Processor level, good news, Horizon Zero Dawn makes good use of the cores / threads allocated to it. Indeed, the increase in the number of images per second correlates rather well with these two criteria.

For the graphics card tests, John Papadopoulos of DSOGaming mobilized an Intel Core i9-9900K processor with 16 GB of DDR4-3600. The graphics cards tested are the Radeon RX580 and RX Vega 64 for AMD, RTX 2080 Ti and GTX 980 Ti for NVIDIA. The machine runs on Windows 10 64 bits with the GeForce 451.67 driver and Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.8.1.

With details to the extreme, of the references mentioned above, only the RTX 2080 Ti exceeds 60 fps at 1080p. In addition, the GTX 980 Ti and Vega 64 do little better than the RX 580. However, theoretically, they should offer a larger gap. Thus, the title does not seem very well optimized on old GPUs, including the high end of the time.

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Image 3: Horizon Zero Dawn is not very well optimized on older GPUs

Finally, on a purely aesthetic level, Horizon Zero Dawn would be one of the most beautiful open-world available on the market, according to John Papadopoulos.

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