Assassin’s Creed Shadows PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide
4K Performance
4K 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.
As always, 4K places high demands on PC hardware. This is especially true for Assassin’s Creed Shadows. With the right settings, we can get reasonable 4K performance out of a lot of our graphics cards. That said, this requires us to use DLSS or FSR upscaling, and it requires us not to use the game’s highest graphical presets. This is a demanding game, but with a little effort, it will run well on most modern gaming PCs. Just don’t expect miracles.
Even with DLSS and FSR set to quality, none of our GPUs can run Assassin’s Creed Shadows at 4K Ultra high settings at 60+ FPS. That said, we can get very playable “faux-K” experiences if we lower some settings and embrace upscaling.
For the most part, this game ran at 80-100 FPS with an RTX 4070 Ti at Very High settings with DLSS set to performance mode (with Nvidia transformers AI model) and Frame Generation enabled. This delivers a great experience and high levels of image quality. Higher-end GPUs can use less aggressive upscaling and perhaps target higher settings. Even so, that’s solid 4K performance for an RTX 4070 Ti in such a demanding game.
