The Witcher 3 Remastered overhauls CDPR's classic with improved visuals, ray tracing, and path tracing. We benchmark 13 modern GPUs to see how this ambitious free update performs.
The Witcher 3 Remastered GPU Benchmark: RTX 5090 to Arc B580
The Witcher 3 Remastered GPU Benchmark: RTX 5090 to Arc B580
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Some very strange behavior in performance in these benchmarks, game certainly need a couple of patches.
Maybe even a few GPU drivers updates to sort out these performance oddities.
Maybe even a few GPU drivers updates to sort out these performance oddities.
poshflamingos
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Steve, you do great work, but I don't know how I feel about you making current $300+ GPUs the floor for your benchmarks, especially at a time when upgrading isn't so easy. I'm sure there are tons of people on RTX 2000/3000/4000 and RX 6000/7000 cards weaker than the RTX 5060 that would like to know how their GPUs perform in this remaster.
Inthenstus
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I just came here to say the “morning” path trace and ray trace benchmark comment about how the darker one looks better because it’s morning is very wrong. Path tracing one looks way better. Please go outside more often. Thanks.
OP
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I was extremely sick with the flu and this was all I was able to test. We will be back to 40-50 GPUs game testing soon.
Probably different in other parts of the world, I do a lot of fishing and have seen a lot of sunrises.
Loaded it this morning expecting to see awesome updated graphics...but was very anti-climactic. All settings at max on my RTX 5070ti & 13700kf...but the game looks washed out and blurry? I tried turning off all the post-processing effects (chormatic aberration, blur etc), but it still looks washed out and blurry. What's up w/ that?
brucek
Posts: 2,418 +3,939
For me, realistic is not always better, especially in gaming. I want just enough detail to trigger believable immersion in my brain, which for me is far short of photo-realistic; and I don't want anything that obscures or hinders game play, or leaves me squinting to see details in the dark.
For example, relatively few trees is enough to create the impression of a forest. I don't actually want to have to play hide and seek through dense foliage to find the wolf I'm trying to kill.
airbornex
Posts: 683 +936
A remaster looking better while running 36% to 45% faster at 4K Medium is the kind of remastering work I'd like to see more often. Except in this case it doesn't necessarily looks better.
MasterMace
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Anton Longshot
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Witcher 2 has a macOS version and it's gorgeous.
Will this ever happen to Witcher 3?
Will this ever happen to Witcher 3?
5080 is such a disappointment yet again. I tried running this game and its lagging like hell. There goes 2000 bucks I guess. Sorry but 30 fps + frame gen is a total lagfest of a disaster. Indiana Jones and 007 run FAR better too, with Path tracing mind you. Oh and Resident Evil R too. I can prove it, nothing hard about that.
Thanks for the awesome comparison btw! I don't like how the new light looks too. I agree with the video. The sunset/sun rise is also super boring now. Fun fact, The Witcher 3 has some of the most insanely looking skyboxes. This so called "remaster" totally ruins it. This is a huge sin for me. I also happen to like the darker tones of the old game. Everything is too bright in the new one. In the old one, you go to a dark forest. Scary, spooky and epic. The new 1? Its like there are 500 projectors aimed at that same forest. Nuff said, I hate it. Biggest fail of a remaster ever, and I also include Warcraft 3 in here. Which actually just redeemed itself.
Cyberpunk 2077 is impossible to play without patch tracing. I even get very playable fps there. Witcher 3? Nah. Looks bad and the fps is horrible. Same PC. Same card. Even if you ignore my opinion on the light. FPS data don't die. A game from 2015 runs horrible. A game from 2020(when did Cyberpunk came out?) runs with all the bells and whistles. I had to lower a lot of settings in the Witcher 3... remaster.... Whats the point in remastering it then? If I remove all the settings to make it smooth? There is quite a few hitches in some spots too. Gen 5 SSD, 7800X3D. Should be perfect, its not. Going to 4.0 = 0 lag.
So yea, if they didnt add gameplay changes, id never play on this new version.
Thanks for the awesome comparison btw! I don't like how the new light looks too. I agree with the video. The sunset/sun rise is also super boring now. Fun fact, The Witcher 3 has some of the most insanely looking skyboxes. This so called "remaster" totally ruins it. This is a huge sin for me. I also happen to like the darker tones of the old game. Everything is too bright in the new one. In the old one, you go to a dark forest. Scary, spooky and epic. The new 1? Its like there are 500 projectors aimed at that same forest. Nuff said, I hate it. Biggest fail of a remaster ever, and I also include Warcraft 3 in here. Which actually just redeemed itself.
Cyberpunk 2077 is impossible to play without patch tracing. I even get very playable fps there. Witcher 3? Nah. Looks bad and the fps is horrible. Same PC. Same card. Even if you ignore my opinion on the light. FPS data don't die. A game from 2015 runs horrible. A game from 2020(when did Cyberpunk came out?) runs with all the bells and whistles. I had to lower a lot of settings in the Witcher 3... remaster.... Whats the point in remastering it then? If I remove all the settings to make it smooth? There is quite a few hitches in some spots too. Gen 5 SSD, 7800X3D. Should be perfect, its not. Going to 4.0 = 0 lag.
So yea, if they didnt add gameplay changes, id never play on this new version.
I'm thinking YOU need to go outside more often. Mom is always right!
Mr Majestyk
Posts: 2,573 +2,402
Why just test ultra settings, you cannot tell any difference by just dropping back to high, visually unless you pixel peep. I only choose ultra on games with potato engines that can run 4K Ultra at high fps without upscaling.
Witcher 3 with high settings, 4K (FSR quality upscaling) is a nice balance.
Also RT Ultra is barely any improvement over RT High.
Witcher 3 with high settings, 4K (FSR quality upscaling) is a nice balance.
Also RT Ultra is barely any improvement over RT High.
What about nvidia-only HairWorks option in the remaster graphics settings - is it still present? Or some other tech is used now? If the old [bad] HW is still there (and turned on), it may cause one of performance bottlenecks: I remember it was one of the most problematic settings of the original game in 2015.
Wait you paid 2k for a card with only 16GB of VRAM. 'More money than sense' comes to mind.
amghwk
Posts: 1,911 +1,916
Just shows that, you just play the f-king original version and be happy.
F-k all this tracing nonsense and punishing your own graphics card for useless eye-candy.
F-k all this tracing nonsense and punishing your own graphics card for useless eye-candy.
To sell GPUs.
I've been playing at 4k since 2022 with just a Ryzen 5600 and AMD RX6950XT. I use high settings on most games. I tweaked CP2077 to run close to 60fps by using high v ultra settings where it made a difference. Now, I have a Ryzen 9800X3D and AMD RX9070XT. I'll probably still keep it on high and enjoy higher fps.
If it looks washed out and blurry then it is on your end and you need to fix your pos rig, cuz it looks phenomenal on my OLED and 5080 w/ 100% maxed everything from Hairworks to Path Tracing.
Native looks worse than a 320x200 CRT; all that extra foilage+super bright colors looked like badly painted acrylic. Max with DLAA looks sharp but colors are horrible. Honestly I tried it for an hour and then switched back to the original 2015 version; runs way better and looks far better to me than the blinding rraytracing lip gloss everywhere.
I would argue ss well that the eye candy lokks like vaseline as well.
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