League Of Legends Performance, Benchmarked

[cleeve]

Following up our Dota 2 performance analysis, we benchmark the most-played PC game in the world, League Of Legends, and find out just how much graphics and CPU performance it requires for high-resolution, high-detail play, even across three screens.

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[Zero_]

Looks like everyone is jobless these days...

Also, no love for Heroes of Newerth?

 

[Martell1977]

No surprises here, LoL is a very resource light game. I can run it on all medium settings on my old Pentium 4 3.2ghz with a AGP Radeon 3850 @ 1440x900 resolution with more than playable frame rates. The only issue is initial stutter at at the very start of a match that and long loading times. (however, I only use that machine when I have 3 or more players at my house)

LoL may not be the prettiest game out there, but it is a lot of fun.

 

[amuffin]

Ezreal 2 good.

 

[Novuake]

Interesting side note : When I was trying this on my HD4000 instead of my HD7950, when the drops under 50FPS become a HUGE hindrance in teamfights, to the point of extreme frustration.

This is one of those games when the smallest stutter can grind your bones to dust.

So you REALLY want a near-constant 60FPS for this one.

Anypony disagree???

 

[JJ1217]

Yeah.. no one cares. Everyone knows you can basically run it on any rig.

 

[griptwister]

I ran it on Ultra settings at 1080P with a Phenom II x4 840 and a GTS 450 512mb with a stable 60FPS. lol, it's not that hard to run at all.

 

[aggroboy]

When working in out-of-town projects, the few games my ultralight can play are indies, emulators and LoL.

 

[rdc85]

"...though the GeForce 210 does exceed 15 ms in our subsequent frame latency variance chart..."

U got the chart wrong? is the 210 and 6450 swiched ?

[EDITOR: Yes, we got it mixed up. Thanks for the note, fixed! - Don]

 

[anxiousinfusion]

[citation][nom]JJ1217[/nom]Yeah.. no one cares. Everyone knows you can basically run it on any rig.[/citation]

It would have been more interesting to see it tested on the oldest possible computers.

 

[jdwii]

Why wait this long to review this game? At least half the people at my college play this game,

 

[Steelwing]

They should have also run benchmarks on the new Howling Abyss map. It seems to be much more detailed, and some people have reported FPS problems with it.

 

[Memnarchon]

Thanks. As I see we can go as low as possible in order to create a pc that is able to play LOL.

 

[richboyliang]

i don't have any of the graphics cards used...my intel hd 3000 gets about 45 fps except when karthus ults (7 fps)

 

[tomate2]

LoL has a lot of players and im sure many of them would benefit from this article

 

[SuperVeloce]

well thanks, my brother cannot say "i need a new computer for Lol" anymore. xD

 

[kettu]

Page 4 title says 'low details' but the graph says 'highest detail'.

I suppose this time CPU latency numbers don't matter that much since it's such a light load. But I still want to take this opportunity to ask for them in the future articles when there is a heavier load and differences between FPS scores.

By the way, interesting how the iGPUs perform against faster Radeon cards in latency measurements. Would you add the desktop chips for the next review alongside the mobile?

 

[Memnarchon]

[strike]Just one question. Since the GT 630 seems to be an excellent choice with such low frame rates at high settings @ 1080p, what kind of memory had your sample? Was DDR3 or GDDR5?[/strike] I just foud the answer that is GDDR5, which is 40% more expensive here (DDR3 = 50 euro, GDDR5 = 70 euro). :/

 

[Grandmastersexsay]

This is the most popular game in the world right now? I don't get it.

Shame on all of you for supporting the pay to win model. You are going to ruin gaming, and your bank accounts.

 

[chugot9218]

For the record, credit usually goes to DOTA for being the first MOBA, but it was more or less based on Aeon of Strife which was a custom map for the first Starcraft.

 

[lewo]

can you also make a benchmark for HON (Heroes of Newerth) ?

 

[Kindredsouls]

[citation][nom]Grandmastersexsay[/nom]This is the most popular game in the world right now? I don't get it. Shame on all of you for supporting the pay to win model. You are going to ruin gaming, and your bank accounts.[/citation]

Except its not pay to win. Skins are the only item in the game that must be purchased with money. Everything else that you need to buy is purchased with Influence Points, which you get by playing matches.

 

[gonchuki]

Heroes of Newerth is the true spiritual successor to the original DotA. I don't get all the millions of people that play a watered down version of the genre in LoL. It's true that it's easier, to the point that I have always been an average DotA/HoN player (0.9 - 1.0 kdr) but I totally steamroll people on LoL unless they are doing some cheesy strategy.

 

[scazbala86]

I want to know what RAM configuration you had with the A10, anything less than 1866mhz dual channel is crap

 

[Novuake]

This is the most popular game in the world right now? I don't get it.

Shame on all of you for supporting the pay to win model. You are going to ruin gaming, and your bank accounts.

Wow you are misinformed, paying does not give you ANY advantage, its only superficial.