Resident Evil Requiem – PC Tech Review
Resident Evil Requiem is a tech showcase on PC
Resident Evil Requiem is a technological showcase on PC and consoles
Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem is now available on PC and consoles, and it is a fascinating game. It takes the 3rd- and 1st-person elements of modern Resident Evil games and blends them to create an experience that satisfies all series fans. It also takes the series’ technology to the next level on both PC and PlayStation 5 Pro.
On PS5 Pro, gamers will get ray tracing and Sony’s latest iteration of PSSR (Sony’s Neural Upscaling solution). PC takes things to the next level with greater ray-tracing support and even path-tracing support on Nvidia RTX GPUs. Additionally, the game’s PC version also supports AMD FSR 4 and DLSS on supported hardware alongside their Frame Generation solutions. Sadly, Intel’s XeSS technology is not supported in Resident Evil Requiem.
In this article, we will be looking into ray tracing, path tracing, and the game’s upscaling solutions across several modern GPUs.
Ray Tracing VS Path Tracing
Beyond Resident Evil Requiem’s ray-tracing settings is a unique path-tracing option for Nvidia RTX graphics cards. Sadly, Path tracing is not supported on non-Nvidia hardware, and the feature must be used with Nvidia DLAA or DLSS. This means that future AMD and Intel GPUs are unlikely to ever be able to play this game with path tracing enabled, regardless of how strong the hardware is.
GPU Drivers
To test Resident Evil Requiem’s PC version, we used the newest GPU drivers available from AMD and Nvidia. These are AMD Software 26.2.2 Driver, and Nvidia’s GeForce 591.86 “Game Ready” driver.
OC3D Gaming Test Rig Upgrades
We’ve made a lot of new additions to our gaming test setup over the past few months. We now have Nvidia RTX 50 GPUs as part of our GPU test suite. Thanks to Nvidia, we now have their RTX 5070 and RTX 5080 Founders Edition GPUs in for testing. This will allow us to test features like DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Generation and better look at the newest RTX showcases.
In August, thanks to Sapphire, we also upgraded our gaming test suite with AMD RDNA 4 graphics cards. Today, we have a Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Pulse and a Radeon RX 9060 XT Pulse. All of these new GPUs are great for playing modern games, as you will soon see in Resident Evil Reqiuem.
Test System Specs
Below are the full specifications for our GPU/Games testing system, along with links to all the components we used.
OC3D GPU/Games Test System Specifications (Affiliate Links below)
CPU – Intel i9-13900K
Cooling – Corsair iCUE H150i Elite CAPELLIX XT
Motherboard – ASUS ROG Strix Z790-F Gaming WiFi
Memory – Corsair Vengeance 2x16GB (32GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory
Storage – Corsair MP600 PRO NH 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD
Case – Corsair iCUE 5000T RGB
Power Supply – Corsair HX1500i
OS – Windows 11
See the other pages of this article for image comparisons and performance testing.
