Assassin’s Creed Shadows PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide
1440p Performance
1440p Testing
[Update – August 2nd 2025] Sapphire has sent their Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9060 XT Pulse graphics cards for games testing. This has allowed us to add AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs to our recent games performance analysis articles. Data for these GPUs is now included below.
Overall, 1440p isn’t much more demanding than 1080p in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Performance drops are relatively small when jumping to this resolution. This can also be seen with the relatively small performance changes between some DLSS and FSR quality modes. It’s only at 4K that resolution starts having a larger performance impact.
At 1440p high settings without RTGI, Nvidia’s RTX 4070 and AMD’s RX 6800 deliver framerates at or around 60 FPS. Add on frame generation, and these GPUs will run the game at around 100 FPS. Not bad if you have a VRR compatible monitor.
At Ultra High settings with RTGI enabled, none of the GPUs we tested ran this game at over 60 FPS at all times at 1440p. Lower settings are needed to make this game run faster. Clearly, ultra-high settings were made with higher-end, or future, GPUs in mind.
