There were a few common threads across PC ports in 2023, but one of the most prominent was the lack of GPU decompression. AsI’ve written about previously, the Xbox Series X and PS5 have dedicated decompression hardware, which equals the computational power of almost a full CPU. PCs don’t...
The differences between each preset are admittedly small, but there are differences. You can see that in action inLies of Pabove. With Preset A (middle), there are disocclusion artifacts around the sparks as they ramp up. They’re hard to spot at first, but pay attention to the ripples ...
The games that we and others have chosen as benchmarks aren’t the problem — they offer a way to push a GPU to its extreme in order to compare it to the competition and previous generations. The problem is that benchmark suites frame performance around the clearest margins. And those ma...
To be clear, this isn’t nessacary. I’ve massively zoomed in the videos here, and after gathering and comparing around 50GB of game capture, these were the most signficant differences I could come up with. Developers generally choose the best preset out of the gate, anyway, and the mino...