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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Publisher: CD Projekt RED

From our The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt review:

'But these flaws don't even come close to undermining CD Projekt's achievements in the Witcher 3. It's the culmination of a lengthy improvement process over three games. The Witcher proved they could make an interesting game, and the Witcher II proved they could make an intelligent and entertaining game. The Witcher 3 does something entirely different. It relieves CD Projekt of the burden of proof, and places it squarely on the shoulders of every other RPG developer working in the industry today. That's how good it is. Consider the bar officially raised.'

The Witcher 3 is an extremely demanding game. As such, we test using the 'High' preset rather than the 'Ultra' one, as the visual difference between them is small. However, we disable Nvidia HairWorks due to its massive performance impact. We also use the 'High' preset for the postprocessing effects, which is the highest possible setting. The benchmark is a 45 second recording of a manual playthrough in the level Lilac and Gooseberries, where we run on horseback up to and through a village just after Geralt has first encountered a Griffin. There's plenty of water, shadows and lighting to deal with and a good amount of people, buildings and foilage to render as well.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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  • MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Lightning 6GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti Poseidon 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Tri-X 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Nano 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Tri-X 8GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro 8GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini 4GB
  • Asus Radeon R9 380X Strix 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 380 Nitro 4GB
  • Palit GeForce GTX 960 Super JetStream 2GB
  • Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 OC 2GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R7 370 Nitro 4GB
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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  • MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Lightning 6GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti Poseidon 6GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Tri-X 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Nano 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Tri-X 8GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro 8GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini 4GB
  • Asus Radeon R9 380X Strix 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 380 Nitro 4GB
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