What kind of graphics card does Ghosts of Tsushima: The Director's Cut require for the PC version?

 

The PC version of Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut is finally available for sale on PC on 2024/5/16. Desktop players can use keyboards, mice, and grips to play, but the PC version is also optimized for 21:9 and 32:9 display ratios, and it even supports 48:9 resolution for triple-display setups, and even more so for NVIDIA DLSS 3, AMD FSR 3, and Intel XeSS. NVIDIA DLSS 3, AMD FSR 3 and Intel XeSS image quality enhancement and frame generation technology, as well as NVIDIA DLAA and FSR 3 Native AA anti-aliasing technology can be opened, and the author has prepared three graphics cards to test the performance of the PC version of the "Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut". NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 1070, and GeForce RTX 4070 Ti were used to collect the average frame rate of the game for your reference.

Hardware Minimum Requirements for Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut Ghost of Tsushima

According to an article on PlayStation.Blog, the minimum hardware requirements (720P 30 fps) for the PC version of Ghosts of Tsushima: The Director's Cut only requires an Intel Core i3-7100 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 processor with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB / AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics card. 5500 XT graphics card.

The 1080P 60 frame, which is still mainstream, is paired with Intel Core i5-8600 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processors, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards, and I can't imagine that the 2060 is still up for grabs!

Hardware requirements list for the PC version of ∆The Ghost of Tsushima Warrior: Director's Cut.

 

Then, I would like to share with you the test platform I used and the game screen settings. Considering that most gamers pursue screen performance rather than the highest frame rate performance when playing 3A masterpieces, I also set the game to have built-in "Very High/High" texture effect options for AAA-type games, and manually activate the NVIDIA DLSS 3 / AMD FSR 3 function to set it to "Quality/Picture" to obtain a certain degree of frame rate improvement while maintaining the screen performance as much as possible. 3 function in the game and set it to "Quality/Picture Quality" to get a certain degree of frame rate increase while maintaining the screen performance as much as possible, and the frame rate is also collected by using Software Average of Records (AVG) and 1% Low FPS.

The test scene is set on the side of the beach where you fell off your horse not long after the game started, and after you get up, you start to press the record button to collect the frames of the game running.

• Average FPS: Record the number of frames generated during the game and divide it by the total recording time to get the average value.
• 1% Low FPSThe value of the 1% part of the frame that represents the longest frame generation time (Frametime) during the test is calculated as an average, the closer the value is to the measured average FPS, it means that the game does not have any significant frame dropping problem, in other words, 1% Low FPS is the fluctuation of the low frame rate.

 

The graphics cards are MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING X TRIO WHITE 12G / MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver 8G OC / MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G Golden Edition, and the graphics drivers are GeForce Game Ready 552.44, which is a special update of the PC version of "Ghosts of Tsushima: The Director's Cut". The graphics card driver is GeForce Game Ready version 552.44 for the PC version of "Ghosts of Tsushima: Director's Cut". In addition, we would like to remind you to make sure that your driver version is at least higher than this version before playing, AMD Radeon graphics cards should be updated to Adrenalin Edition 24.5.1 WHQL version, Intel ARC series should be updated to Intel Graphics Edition 24.5.1 WHQL version, and AMD Radeon graphics cards should be updated to Intel Graphics Edition 24.5.1 WHQL version. AMD Radeon graphics cards should be updated to Adrenalin Edition 24.5.1 WHQL version, and Intel Graphics Drivers 101.5518 Beta for ARC series.

Testing Platform
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (PBO Enable)
Cooler: VALKYRIE C420
Motherboard: ASRock X670E Taichi Carrara (BIOS version: 3.01.AS01 [Beta])
Memory: Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5 RGB 7200 MT/s 16GBx2
Graphics: MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING X TRIO WHITE 12G / MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver 8G OC / MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G Golden Edition
Operating System: Windows 11 Professional 22H2
System disk: MSI SPATIUM M371 NVMe M.2 1TB
Storage: Toshiba 1TB 3.5-inch hard drive
Storage: Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB
Gaming Disk: XPG GAMMIX S60 PRO PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 2280 2TB
Graphics driver: GeForce Game Ready 552.44

 

1920×1080 Full HD resolution test

First up is the Full HD 1080p resolution which is still used by the majority of users, during the test the 4070 Ti used nearly 8 GB of graphics memory with the graphics preset to very high.

Originally, I was hoping that all graphic presets would be set to very high, but except for the 4070 Ti, the other two graphics cards can only start the game on "high", so it is assumed that the game will be limited according to the memory of the graphics card used for the game settings, which simply means that if your game is not open, players will just have to adjust the settings downward until the game can be opened.

The RTX 4070 Ti can run at an average of 177 fps at 1080p with DLSS 3 settings. The GTX 1070 and GTX 970 don't support Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology, so they use AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 3.0 technology to enhance the game's frame rate performance instead, and the GTX 1070 is able to reach an average of 60 fps at 1080p resolution. The GTX 1070 is still able to achieve an average of 60 fps at 1080p resolution, while the GTX 970 is a bit of a stretch. Gamers using the GTX 970 may want to adjust the graphics settings downward or enhance the FSR profile to a performance level, etc., so that the game can run smoothly.

∆ NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti: Full HD 1080p resolution, DLSS 3 quality, very high graphics settings, 177 fps average.

∆ Full HD 1080p resolution graphics card test performance.

 

2560×1440 QHD resolution test

The graphics settings are very high at 2560×1440 QHD resolution, and the RTX 4070 Ti uses 8.4 GB of graphics memory, so it seems that to play the PC version of Ghosts of Tsushima: The Director's Cut at full power on a 2K screen, most graphics cards using 8 GB of memory will have to adjust the graphics settings downward to reduce memory usage.

The RTX 4070 Ti achieved an average of 153 fps during the course of the game, while the GTX 1070 failed a bit with an average of 57 fps. However, the author believes that with a little bit of tweaking of some of the settings, a smooth run of 60 fps can be achieved, while the GTX 970 has already failed significantly, and it is recommended that gamers may want to adjust the graphic profiles to a lower level to play the game.

∆ NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti: WQHD 1440p resolution, DLSS 3 quality, very high graphics settings, 153 fps average.

∆ WQHD 1440p resolution graphics card test performance.

 

3840×2160 UHD resolution test

The 4K (3840×2160) UHD resolution was then used for the test, and at this resolution the RTX 4070 Ti was basically a one-trick pony, using 9.5 GB of graphics memory and averaging 109 fps, which is really no problem with NVIDIA's DLSS 3!

The GTX 1070 only averaged 41 fps, so if you want to stabilize at 60 fps, you'll need to set the graphics to "low", and the GTX 970 doesn't offer a 3840×2160 display option in-game, so there's a blank space here.

∆ NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti: UHD 4K resolution, DLSS 3 quality, very high graphics settings, 109 fps average.

∆ UHD 4K resolution graphics card test performance.

 

Summary & Insights

The PC version of Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut supports NVIDIA's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS 3) technology, as well as AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 3.0 technology, which allows various users to further enhance the game's frame rate performance by matching the frame-generating technology, and the overall optimization of the game is also quite good during the testing process of 1% Low. FPS are not too far from the average FPS, in other words, it is less likely to lag.

In order to play "Ghosts of Tsushima: Director's Cut" in its full HD setting, players must have a graphics card with more than 8 GB of memory. If the memory capacity of the graphics card in hand is not so sufficient, then it is necessary to adjust the game's graphic settings downwards, and the overall game optimization is still good and does not appear to have a particularly CPU-intensive or graphics card utilization rate is not high, and the recommended configuration of the DRAM memory of a PC is A PC with more than 16GB of DRAM memory is best, and all three resolutions use nearly 17GB of DRAM memory.