The Witcher 3 Benchmarks GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 280/285/280X

Digital Foundry has provided a benchmark video for The Witcher 3: Wild Chase testing the GeForce GTX 960 and the Radeon R9 280/285 and 280X.

You tin can watch the video beneath:

Two cut-scenes and a run through Novigrad City on horseback analysed using four dissimilar mainstream GPUs. We're running The Witcher iii on high settings here with all postal service-processing effects enabled and HairWorks turned off.

The GTX 960 is the winner in this category. It is marginally faster overall than the R9 280X and R9 285, and has fewer latency spikes in frame-time (about noticeable in Novigrad City). Looking to meliorate your frame-charge per unit? Shadows and foliage should be your first port of telephone call subsequently turning off HairWorks. HBAO+ added a 5fps hit on the R9 280 vs standard SSAO, so that's worth a look also.

Benchmarked on 1.03. We retested with 1.04 and establish it was no faster in these scenes (we benched with HairWorks off).

Here are the benchmarks (low/avg):

GTX 960 - 36.0/47.3
R9 280 - 29.0/40.9
R9 285 - 34.0/46.i
R9 280X - 33.0/45.6

A new mod for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has been made available, named E3FX which as the name suggests it tries to mimic the E3 2022 trailer. You tin can check out and download the mod hither.

CD Projekt Reddish has finally released the new update for The Witcher three: Wild Chase with the free DLC on Xbox 1, PC and PlayStation 4. The update includes a sexy new look for Yennefer and a new mission for Geralt.

The Witcher 3: Wild Chase had the biggest UK release of the twelvemonth and so far, crashing Battlefield Hardline's week one sales by 53 per cent. 63% of physical sales were on the PlayStation iv, followed past 32% on the Xbox One and 5% on PC. The majority of PC sales were digital though. On elevation of that it seems that it managed to meridian both the Steam and Greenish Man Gaming charts too.

The game has received another patch and the patch notes country an improvement of the texture rendering quality on Loftier and Ultra settings.

The Witcher 3 Hunter'southward Config is a nice little tool offer easy access to graphical options, and it's certainly worth a look.

As we have previously covered a few adjustments in the ini files can improve the grass quality in The Witcher 3, likewise as the performance. A workaround on how to run HairWorks on AMD GPUs without crippling performance, has also been made bachelor, enabling AMD GPU users to enjoy The Witcher 3 with HairWorks enabled, while getting better operation than GeForce users not using a Maxwell architecture Nvidia GPU.

A set of beautiful 4K screenshots of the PC version and some 4K gameplay footage, demonstrates only how amazing The Witcher 3 can look.

The Witcher 3 is bachelor for the PlayStation iv, Xbox One and PC. We volition bring you any new information on The Witcher 3 as soon as it becomes available.