News Diablo IV PC Performance: We're Testing a Bunch of GPUs

[JarredWaltonGPU]

So AMD don't make GPU, according to charts 😀

As noted, this was "testing in progress." A bunch of AMD cards are there now. And I'm going to bed.

 

[Colif]

If you have problems with menus freezing game, try installing the high res texture pack, its meant to help.

I will find out once I install the extra 40gb.

 

[javiindo]

Images on "Diablo IV — 4K Ultra Performance" and "Diablo IV — 4K Upscaled Performance" is the same.

 

[Amdlova]

The blizzard with the system configurations is a meh.
Need to check with a old cpu or make a new one become slower.
See some videos from the old amd system taking hard time on new titles. People with old hardware will get these new cards with 8x and will be the fps low down. The de8auer make some test with 4060ti and 3060ti on pci3 and get poor frame rates making the 4060ti likely the 3060ti.

 

[Nexus696]

Hmm, I wonder how my great GTX 980 ti still will hold up... I suspect somewhere where the 1660 super is? Would like to play with 1440p...

 

[Bubblebob]

Definitely missing 3090 scores.

 

[InvalidError]

A casual-oriented AAA game designed to run fine on most potato PCs. Not everything needs to aim for Crysis 4 hardware-wrecking "requirements."

 

[Colif]

My average FPS went from 13.2 with low textures to 132 with the High Res texture pack, so there is something to it.

Its chews lots of vram at max settings 1440p

 

[Colif]

Diablo 4 has a memory leak. I just noticed I somehow used 95% of my virtual memory today. I have 32gb so its unusual.
Its grown my page file from 4gb to 16gb. It wasn't that size yesterday,

I read it had one in March, had hoped it be fixed by now.

 

[dk382]

Images on "Diablo IV — 4K Ultra Performance" and "Diablo IV — 4K Upscaled Performance" is the same.

Looks like the regular 4K Ultra shots are showing the upscaled results instead.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Looks like the regular 4K Ultra shots are showing the upscaled results instead.

Should be fixed now. I accidentally selected the same image (before going to bed at 3am).

 

[CharlesOCT]

minor typo; I think this is meant to read 4060Ti:

"RX 7600 and up easily clear 60 fps, and the RTX 4070 Ti averages 120 fps, so 8GB of VRAM isn't an issue in Diablo IV."

 

[bourgeoisdude]

Thanks for this! I'd been wanting for a while to see much older cards in benchmarking for modern games. It is helpful for those of us saying "when should we buy the next thing?" Sure, plenty of old articles with benchmarks for 5+ year old games but how do they handle new things? Impressive that my previous card, the GTX 670, could still handle this title at appropriate settings.

 

[Friesiansam]

Is that out of the norm for a website like this? How is that headline news?

If you think "We're Testing a Bunch of GPUs" is a pointless comment, then you really need to think about what you are publishing here.

 

[Deleted member 2838871]

I played the Server Slam and preordered it the other day... installed it yesterday. This will be my first trip into the Diablo universe since the original in 1997.

Gonna check it out tonight when I get home assuming the 4 day early access I got has started. Not expecting any issues at all with my 4090 system but even on a lesser card I'd be optimistic because Blizzard titles have generally not been too demanding in my experiences... see World of Warcraft.

Will follow up with 4K Ultra RT numbers.

 

[g-unit1111]

How do the 4070TI and 7900XT fare? I'm buying one of these two GPUs this week, and if the 7900XT is better, I might actually go that route.

 

[Reginald_Peebottom]

I’d like to see the Gtx 1080 at 1440p just because I’m trying to decide whether to buy it on pc or ps5.

I have played it for about an hour on my gtx 1080 with a 5800x3d cpu and an 1440p 165hz panel and it runs it at essentially max settings at 1440p smoothly - not a benchmark but no stutters or perceptible dips. I used high textures (not ultra) and stepped down one notch on fog and shadows but didn’t try them on max (I usually don’t notice the small gains in fidelity in those areas and so where I can in games I turn them down to medium).

Anyway, as I said it runs fluently but the game imho was made for consoles as I think a controller beats keyboard mouse.

 

[Deleted member 2838871]

Anyway, as I said it runs fluently but the game imho was made for consoles as I think a controller beats keyboard mouse.

Good to know... I use an Xbox controller on the PC.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Lots more AMD cards are now in the charts. I'm basically done testing AMD ← you should be able to estimate where other cards fall based on what's been tested. We're at 26 GPUs total tested, and I've got at least 10 more Nvidia cards to test. Then I'll call it a day. If you're wondering, the list of cards I still plan to test is:

RTX 4080
RTX 4070 Ti
RTX 4070
RTX 3090
RTX 3080
RTX 3070
RTX 3060
RTX 2070
GTX 1070
GTX 1050

 

[SSGBryan]

It's a blizzard game - it is designed to run on a potato.

 

[Deleted member 2838871]

It's a blizzard game - it is designed to run on a potato.

Pretty much. I always get a laugh out of the "I'm building a PC for WoW what kind of hardware do I need?" threads...

Ummm... anything made in the last 20 years? 🤣 🤣 🤣

 

[InvalidError]

Ummm... anything made in the last 20 years? 🤣 🤣 🤣

You do need to have something at least somewhat decent for dragonriding unless you want walls to pop up in your face and smash into them. With my GTX1050, I can't get good times on races because the waypoints often appear too late, probably because there isn't enough VRAM to keep that texture in memory which causes it to pop in and out with distance. When I had the A750, everything remained visible as far as I could see. Something like the A380 is probably the minimum necessary for a pleasant ride or race.

 

[tjb3506]

I have played it for about an hour on my gtx 1080 with a 5800x3d cpu and an 1440p 165hz panel and it runs it at essentially max settings at 1440p smoothly - not a benchmark but no stutters or perceptible dips. I used high textures (not ultra) and stepped down one notch on fog and shadows but didn’t try them on max (I usually don’t notice the small gains in fidelity in those areas and so where I can in games I turn them down to medium).

Anyway, as I said it runs fluently but the game imho was made for consoles as I think a controller beats keyboard mouse.

Thanks for replying with this info! I have never played any Diablo and wanted to have the option to do either mouse and keyboard or controller based on what I might prefer.

 

[Deleted member 2838871]

You do need to have something at least somewhat decent for dragonriding unless you want walls to pop up in your face and smash into them. With my GTX1050, I can't get good times on races because the waypoints often appear too late, probably because there isn't enough VRAM to keep that texture in memory which causes it to pop in and out with distance. When I had the A750, everything remained visible as far as I could see. Something like the A380 is probably the minimum necessary for a pleasant ride or race.

Yeah I'm an old school WoW player... I played religiously from 2004 launch until quitting early in Cata... (2010)... and then came back for classic WoW. The mistake I made was building a new PC shortly after... 10900k/3090... I got so tied up in classic WoW and then BC classic that I didn't really do much else with the build other than flight simulator.

Point being... total overkill system for WoW and I didn't make the same mistake this time. After clearing Sunwell at the end of BC classic last year I vowed not to play Wrath classic and I've kept that promise to myself.

Now I'm actually using this new build on games it was meant to play.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Okay, I'm done for now! All the charts have been updated, I reran some tests as well. DLSS 3 is mostly a bust, though! LOL. It increases minimum fps but often drops the average fps. Oops!