Battlefield i marks the fifteenth installment to EA's multiplayer war machine shooter franchise and the first one to be inspired past historic events surrounding Earth War I, opening the door to classic warfare nosotros've yet to see such as trench clubs and a cavalry class.

Similar to previous entries in the serial, Battleground 1 has a fun but brief single-player campaign that serves more as a tutorial for the game's online multiplayer, which should be particularly polished this fourth dimension around because an multi-platform open beta was available for weeks alee of release and drew over 13 million players.

Such an active participation level and then early on on pointed toward an upcoming success and that indeed appears to be the case judging by reviews, with the game currently getting an aggregated rating of 86/100 according to critics from around the web.

We were among the initial testers and the BF1 beta admittedly made a potent first impression with peachy graphics that weren't overly demanding. At the time information technology seemed like entry-level PC gaming gear could tackle this title at 1080p using reasonably high quality settings, then we're bang-up to encounter if the full retail version is all the same as hardware-friendly as we remember.

The game is congenital on the Frostbite 3.0 game engine, which will be used by 2022'southward highly-anticipated Mass Effect: Andromeda and has recently been seen in games such as Demand for Speed, Mirror's Edge Goad, FIFA 17 and Star Wars: Battlefront, which counted itself amongst last year'south most bonny PC games in our opinion and might be the best indicator of what to expect out of Battlefield i's visuals.

After testing 41 graphics cards and 20 processors in our Gears of War 4 performance review, we wanted to do the same for Battlefield 1 and for the well-nigh role we succeeded, though it hasn't been without a few frustrations.

The biggest badgerer was by far EA'southward Origin client piracy protection method which limits an account to v hardware changes per mean solar day, significant we could but test five graphics cards per business relationship in a 24-60 minutes period.

Using a single account, it would have taken at least eight days to practise the GPU testing that nosotros wanted and probably another 8 to complete the CPU benchmarks. In the end we purchased this game 3 times and information technology notwithstanding took v days to become all the results recorded. Anyway, with that nightmare behind united states nosotros can move on to the benchmarks (or our companion gameplay review, if that'south why yous're here).

Testing Methodology

Our benchmark laissez passer lasted 60 seconds, we started at the beginning of the "Through Mud & Blood" story where yous take command of a British Mark 5 Tank. This test features plenty of AI-controlled characters and more importantly an easy to follow path that allowed us to repeatedly reproduce the test with a high caste of accuracy.

Since the game appears to be well optimized, we didn't find it necessary to test many quality presets and instead focused on including every graphics card we had on paw. Nosotros tested three standard resolutions: 1080p, 1440p and 4K.

The 'Ultra' preset was used though a few tweaks were made to the settings. Get-go, the "GPU Memory Restriction" option was turned off to avoid downscaling when the graphics cards VRAM is maxed out. The FOV was also increased from the default fifty setting to 80, including inside vehicles.

The latest AMD and Nvidia graphics drivers were used for testing.

Test Organisation Specs

  • Intel Core i7-6700K (4.50GHz)
  • 8GBx4 Kingston Predator DDR4-3000
  • Asrock Z170 Extreme7+ (Intel Z170)
  • Silverstone Strider 700w PSU
  • Crucial MX200 1TB
  • Microsoft Windows ten Pro 64-bit
  • Nvidia GeForce 375.57 WHQL
  • AMD Ruddy Edition 16.10.ii Hotfix
  • Radeon RX 480 (8192MB)
  • Radeon RX 470 (4096MB)
  • Radeon RX 460 (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 Fury 10 (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 Fury (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 Nano (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 390X (8192MB)
  • Radeon R9 390 (8192MB)
  • Radeon R9 380X (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 380 (2048MB)
  • Radeon R7 360 (2048MB)
  • Radeon R9 290X (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 290 (4096MB)
  • Radeon R9 285 (2048MB)
  • Radeon R9 280X (3072MB)
  • Radeon R9 280 (3072MB)
  • Radeon R9 270X (2048MB)
  • Radeon R9 270 (2048MB)
  • Radeon Hard disk 7970 GHz (3072MB)
  • Radeon HD 7970 (3072MB)
  • Radeon HD 7950 Heave (3072MB)
  • Radeon Hard disk drive 7950 (3072MB)
  • Radeon Hard disk drive 7870 (2048MB)
  • Nvidia Titan X (12288MB)
  • GeForce GTX 1080 (8192MB)
  • GeForce GTX 1070 (8192MB)
  • GeForce GTX 1060 (6144MB)
  • GeForce GTX 1060 (3072MB)
  • GeForce GTX Titan (6144MB)
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti (6144MB)
  • GeForce GTX 980 (4096MB)
  • GeForce GTX 970 (4096MB)
  • GeForce GTX 960 (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 950 (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti (3072MB)
  • GeForce GTX 780 (3072MB)
  • GeForce GTX 770 (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 760 (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 680 (2048MB)
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti (2048MB)