When cross-gen wasn't a thing, last-gen ports of current-gen games could prove disastrous... and nothing in our testing was worse than the PS3 conversion of Shadow of Mordor. Captures originally …
There were at least two versions of the Asus ROG Ally review, and the first one was based on bad data suggesting that the 15W performance mode under-performed vs Steam …
Like-for-like benchmark tests stacking up the Asus ROG Ally against PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in a couple of one-off benchmark scenarios. Thanks for backing the DF Supporter Program!
The RTX 3050 is widely acknowledged to be the least performant RTX desktop GPU - but believe it or not, it is possible to play the RT Overdrive version of …
Wondering about immensely variable performance in TLOU Part 1 on PC? It can be loading and decompressing assets at any given point - and that has a big impact on …
Here's Rich with a look at performance in Elden Ring using an RTX 2070 with broadly equivalent console settings (beefed up places, actually) with RT on an off. A Ryzen …
A preview of our upcoming Elden Ring RT analysis for consoles. Here's how PlayStation 5 looks, stacking up performance vs quality vs RT mode in matched footage.
Here's a Bonus for Patreon supporters - the original edit of our The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice tech review. Our capture completed just before a patch arrived for PS5, necessitating …
Much as the title implies, Alex tries out the RE Framework mod's newer ability to add DLSS, DLAA, FSR2 and XeSS into any RE engine game. The results speak for …
We're looking into Gotham Knights again after reports of massive improvements... and those reports are on the level! Alex revisits the PC version in upcoming content and you can preview …
Alex is currently taking a look at the path-traced mod for the original Half-Life and here's a quick comparison showing how the original version of the game stacked up against …
Here's a selection of bonus material comparison b-roll from John's recent PSVR2 review of Gran Turismo 7. In the same way that replays can be used to compare PS4, PS4 …
Can the latest - and most powerful - AMD mobile APU deliver performance in line with the PlayStation 4? Here's a preview look at some material from our upcoming AyaNeo …
Extended head-to-head comparisons showing what happens with a GTX 1660 Ti attempting to run Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p in performance mode. There are comparisons here against native resolution rendering, FSR …
Has CDPR improved performance in the contentious ray tracing mode on The Witcher 3 Next-Gen? Here's some unedited frame-rate analysis data that'll be in our upcoming content.
Here's the initial version of Oliver's console platform comparison for the Dead Space remake, covering the launch versions of the game on PS5, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. …
Captures created on November 27th, 2012. We dug these files out of the archives for supplementary material for our Far Cry 3 Retro PC Time Capsule and have verified that …
Not so much 'Classic FPS Remastered' for this one, as we're using fresh captures - as opposed to library footage from the DF archives! For a PC Time Capsule video, …
2022 was a dire year for the quality of PC ports, from awful scalability to missing features to the inevitable #StutterStruggle. We're looking to kick off 2023 by trying to …
Nvidia's Pascal generation of GPUs did not include hardware-accelerated ray tracing features, but a certain selection of RT titles *will* run - and the demanding Control is one of them. …
DF Supporter Sibalicious asked us an interesting question: if the RTX 4090 effectively 'solves' graphics at 4K resolution, can RTX 4070 Ti do the same thing at 1440p? It's an …
By using Fortnite replays, we can produce like-for-like gameplay performance testing and here we're running Fortnite tapped out with hardware RT Lumen, Nanite and virtual shadows active. The only difference …
It took some effort, but we managed to get Lumen, Nanite and virtual shadows in Fortnite working on Steam Deck running under Windows! Which means it's time for another Deck …
Here's a quick preview of how the best version of The Callisto Protocol on current-gen compares with the worst version of the last generation. Expect the full breakdown of the …
Some b-roll we captured of matched footage running on both Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles. How did Epic get UE5 working on Series S at 60fps? Looks …
Tom Morgan's upcoming Warzone 2.0 coverage required multiple DF staff members playing Warzone 2.0 across multiple consoles across multiple crossplay sessions. Here's another taste of the like-for-like comparison data we've …
The Bodacious RetroBros are back with another pickups. Summer is over and winter is looming, so the boys snuggled up and found their warmest pickups for the season. John sought …
We've spent some time producing matched captures of every single console version of Warzone 2.0, using multiple consoles in the same crossplay game instance, with spectate mode allowing for identical …
This is a compilation of all of the source performance material we put together in reviewing in the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080, covering ray tracing, rasterisation, and RT with reconstruction.
Here's a preview of content from our upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.6 (TAAU) vs Patch 1.61 (FSR 2.1) image quality comparison. Both PS5 and Xbox Series X are used in …
A comparison of how DLSS stacks up against FSR2 in two different sections (the official benchmark and ours), with 4K tested at performance settings, 1440p at balanced and 1080p at …
Tom Morgan put together this comparison footage, made possible by Twitter user Melih Korkmaz (@korkmazmelih) who did the legwork in providing the real world footage. Thanks to Melih and thanks …
Here's the unpublished edit of the review code we were sent for Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves. We shared our concerns over issues with Sony and to their credit, all of …
Our first attempt at integrating 8K into our video capture workflow, by stacking up RTX 4090 at 8K resolution against itself at 4K along with other results from RTX 3000 …
Let's take a 120fps feed of Marvel's Spider-Man running DLSS 3, then strip out every other frame twice over, giving us ONLY AI generated frames and ONLY standard frames. Here's …
Last week we put out a trailer about our upcoming DLSS 3 coverage - but it also contained a few seconds' capture of Marvel's Spider-Man running at 8K maxed on …
Raw data showing how the three handhelds compare. The Aya products can also be run at 8W but as the results are so tremendously slow (typically 15-20fps), they have been …
While putting together the Ayaneo Air benchmarks - which, of course, includes Steam Deck - we tested out Spider-Man's RT support on the Valve handheld, just for a moment. And …
Extra material for the DF Supporter Program. This represents the bulk of the frame-capture data we used for comparing GTX 1060 and RX 580 in a recent Spider-Man Remastered performance …
A performance analysis using our FCAT-based frame-time capture tools, stacking up the Founders Edition 10GB version of the RTX 3080 up against the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT.
The PlayStation 5 GPU has significantly more raster performance than RTX 2060, but significantly less RT power - so what happens if we compare dynamic resolution DRS vs dynamic resolution …
Extended video showing the performance characteristics of the new Saints Row as running on PlayStation 5 at 1440p. A bonus for premium level backers of the DF Supporter Program.
Extended video showing the performance characteristics of the new Saints Row as running on PlayStation 5 at 1080p. A bonus for premium level backers of the DF Supporter Program.
Here's what happens when you compare Marvel's Spider-Man running with tweaked optimised PC settings on Steam Deck, stacked up against the original PlayStation 4 release. Thank you for backing the …
A look at one of Rich's favourite sequences from Marvel's Spider-Man, as running on Steam Deck at 720p on mostly high settings, with dynamic resolution in play and Valve's system-level …
A look at how 120Hz performance compares in this game. This is presented at 1440p120 for download on the Digital Foundry Supporter Program - YouTube only supports 60fps playback.
