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Remakes of classic games are extremely popular right now, and titles like Resident Evil 3 remake are an excellent example
The original version of the game never made its way to PC, so not only are PC gamers able to play this horror classic for the first time,
but it looks like a brand new piece of software entirely
Before you go on Steam and slap down some cash to pick up Resident Evil 3, we thought it'd be good to explore just how it will perform on
and we went ahead and tested a two-minute slice of the game, embedded below, on ten graphics cards, from the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB to
the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.Pictured: our GPU running Resident Evil 3 at 4K (Image credit: Capcom)Test system specsThis is the system we
below, do a pretty decent job of telling you what kind of hardware you'll need to play this game at 1080p both at 30 fps (minimum) and 60
Evil 3 on PC is an extremely VRAM-dependent game, to the point where running the game at "Graphics Priority", this game's way of saying
Just keep in mind that if you're playing in this way, you could experience some occasional stuttering
For instance, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 at 1080p performed extremely well at 1080p with Graphics Priority settings, but when we turned it
to Max, our average frame rate dropped just a little bit, yet our 0.1% low dropped all the way down to 13 fps from 37.For the most part
these drastic drops in frame rate are pretty rare, and only really happen when you're transitioning from area to area or getting out of a
smooth gameplay, however, you're going to want to make sure you have a graphics card with at least 8GB of VRAM, which means an Nvidia
We tested the game on a system equipped with an Intel Core i9-9900K and 32GB of HyperX Fury RGB RAM at 3,000MHz
(We mostly stuck to 3,000MHz because we forgot what it was actually rated for and didn't have time for a ton of trial and error)
Watching system usage, all 16 threads of the processor were being hit pretty consistently by the game, with an even spread across all of
for memory usage, the game is actually pretty forgiving, assuming you're not going over your VRAM budget
When we were within spec for the graphics card we were using, the Resident Evil 3 PC port only really used around 6-7GB of system memory
However, that rapidly got pushed upwards if we tried to max out the game on pretty much anything but the RTX 2080 Ti
System memory usage could then spike all the way up to 11 or 12GB, which means if you have the recommended 8GB of system memory, you could
i5-4460 or AMD FX-6300RAM: 8GBGraphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon RX R7 260xDirectX 11Storage: 45GBResident Evil 3
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Infogram; Future)Resident Evil 3 PC performance: by the numbersPerhaps unsurprisingly, the only cards that can deliver a solid 60 fps at 4K
are the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super and the RTX 2080 Ti
Even at the more balanced Graphics Priority setting, which is designed for GPUs with 6-8GB of VRAM, the RTX 2070 Super is just shy of
hitting that vaunted 60 fps target with 59
1080p is still the most common display resolution, and if you're still rocking an FHD display, you shouldn't have too much of a problem
far more affordable, and can still max this game out with good frame rates
we mentioned earlier, maxing the game out with only 6GB of video memory can result in some jagged bits of gameplay, so we'd recommend
sticking with the Graphics Priority preset
The difference in visual quality isn't that apparent, and average frame rate gets boosted up to 74 fps, while avoiding any massive spikes of
With the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060, we got around 83 fps with the Graphics Priority settings, which, again, is recommended for GPUs with only
If you do have an 8GB card, however, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super was able to get a solid 86 fps average, while the Radeon RX 5700 was
Performance drops in half at this high resolution, so we'd only recommend it if you have one of the absolute best GPUs on the market
monitor, you should be able to upscale from 1440p without it looking awful
In fact, in our testing, even our Nvidia graphics cards provided excellent video quality on our 4K screen
Likewise, if you have an older Core i5 processor with just 4 cores and 4 threads, you'll similarly have some problems
And, if you haven't upgraded to 16GB of RAM, we'd advise you to do so while RAM is still affordable.We're about to see new consoles and
PC components are kind of confusing, especially if you're a newcomer to the space
So, we went ahead and put together a couple of build configurations for 1080p, 1440p and 4K that can run the game (and pretty much all the
best PC games) at the Graphics Priority preset
3.6 GHzKingston HyperX FURY GamingMSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon ACASRock AMD Radeon RX5500XTSamsung 500GB 860 EVO SATAEVGA 650W G1+ PSU
SUPERNOVA View1440p60 build:CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600RAM: 16GB HyperX Fury RGBMotherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon ACGraphics card: AMD
Radeon RX 5700 or Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 SuperSSD: Samsung 860 Evo 500GBPower supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G1Resident Evil 3 1440p buildAMD
Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHzKingston HyperX FURY GamingMSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon ACXFX Force Radeon RX 5700Samsung 500GB 860 EVO SATAEVGA 650W G1+
PSU SUPERNOVA View4K60 build:CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700XRAM: 16GB HyperX Fury RGBMotherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon ACGraphics card: AMD
Radeon VII or Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 SuperSSD: Samsung 860 Evo 500GBPower supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G1AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHzKingston
HyperX FURY GamingMSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon ACZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 2080Samsung 500GB 860 EVO SATAGWXMhgLJQT59rJ4aHyyXSN.jpg?#
