Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced PC Performance Review
1440p Performance/Benchmarks
1440p Performance
Like all modern Assassin’s Creed games on PC, the game’s “Ultra High” preset targets ultra-high-end PC hardware. These settings are for gamers with performance to spare, and the game looks great at high or even medium settings. Even at Very Low settings, the game looks decent. Gone are the days when games at low settings delivered Etch A Sketch-level image quality. For this reason, our main benchmarks will test Assassin’s Creed at High settings (with RT set to standard) and Ultra High (with RT set to Extreme).
At 1440p, gamers can have a solid experience at high settings with GPUs like AMD’s RX 9060 XT or Nvidia’s RTX 4070, with both delivering average frame rates of over 60 FPS. That said, GPUs like AMD’s RX 6700 XT and Nvidia’s RTX 3070 Ti would benefit from disabling ray tracing or some lowered settings to achieve more consistent 60+ FPS performance.
When maxed out, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced demands strong hardware. Even with DLSS/FSR in Balanced mode, it takes an RX 9070 XT and an RTX 5080 to achieve 60+ FPS 1st percentile framerates. That said, this game can look great at high, or even medium settings, which is much more performant. Honestly, Assassin’s Creed games are always a master class in why PC gamers shouldn’t max out their games. Yes, the game will look better, but how much better, and at what cost?
