Dark Souls III steam on sale at 12/4/2016, and this time many players will feel a different performance with their PC. Many people tell me that Dark Souls III PC performance is better than PS4 version when you have a powerful PC. Now i will try to give you some useful informations about which is the best graphics card for Dark souls III. Hope this post can also help you to build your gaming pc with a reasonable price.
The test platform for dark souls iii:
CPU: i7-4770k, 4.2Ghz(not OC at this report)
RAM:16GB
OS:window 10,pro edition,64bit.
Driver: GeForce 364.72 For Nvidia /Crimson 16.4.1 For ATI
Graphics Cards in our report list:
XFX R9 380 OC
EVGA GTX 960 SSC
XFX R9 390
PNY GTX980 XLR8
AMD R9 NANO
Sapphire R9 Fury X
EVGA GTX 980ti Hybrid
Graphics setting in the game:
All setting is high or max under every resolution.
Results:
1080P mode:
As we know that: in our graphics card list, there are flagship card, except R9 380 and GTX 960. The flagship cards can run dark souls III with average FPS 60 without doubts under 1080p mode. So, 1080P only test R9 380 and GTX 960. As the picture shows, this two cards is good for game. But, R9 380 have a better Minimum FPS performance.
1440P mode:
Under 1440p, the best one is 980ti and Fury X. If i want buy a card for this game, i will choose R9 390 or R9 Nano.
2160P/4K mode:
Test summary:
As the most common resolution: the 1080P-2K resolution result is very important for us players. At this report we can know that, R9 380 is very good for use if you only want play it under 1080p mode and R9 380 is the cheapest one in this list.
For some high resolution players(2k-4K), GTX 980ti is the only one choice for you, ATI series card under 2k-4K is not bad but have a low Minimum FPS result. Only GTX 980ti have a good FPS performance (Average FPS 43.3/Minimum FPS 34 under 4K mode)
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