Battlefield 6 Tested – AMD Radeon and Nvidia RTX Performance Reviewed
Conclusion
Battlefield 6 is easily one of the best-running PC releases of 2025
Battlefield 6, at least from a performance standpoint, leaves us with very little to complain about. While its campaign feels very Call of Duty-inspired, it does do a great job introducing players to multiplayer classes and their roles. It’s also just fun to play, even if it isn’t as crazy as Battlefield Bad Company. Yes, I still want to see Bad Company 3.
Throughout our time playing Battlefield 6, we did not experience any shader compilation stutter. Furthermore, we could achieve solid performance numbers from any GPU we could throw at it. Got an RTX 2070 2018? Yes, it can run Battlefield 6 at native 1080p high settings at 60+ FPS. If you have higher-end hardware, you will be able to enjoy higher framerates, resolutions, or graphical presets.
Even without upscaling, Battlefield 6 is very scalable. Moving from Overkill to Ultra or high settings can yield some tremendous performance gains. Furthermore, even this game’s low preset looks good. Yes, it suffers from some pop-in, lower resolution textures and lower shadow quality, but the game still looks reasonably good. Gone are the days when “low” graphical settings need to look like something from the PS1 era. Battlefield 6’s low settings tweaks what it needs to be tweaked to boost performance, but doesn’t push things needlessly low. These graphical presets are well optimised. For this reason, we didn’t feel the need to create our own optimised presets for this game. Battlefield Studios did the work for us.
With our Intel i9-13900K CPU, we never became CPU-limited when playing Battlefield 6. Battlefield 6 makes great use of modern CPUs and can scale to high framerates without being limited by CPU performance. We believe that all gamers with modern CPUs should have no trouble running Battlefield 6.
Unlike many new releases, upscalers like DLSS, FSR and XeSS feel like useful add-ons and not a crutch. Too many modern games (cough, Borderlands 4, cough) rely on upscaling to achieve steady framerates. With Battlefield 6, upscalers are a feature that can take your GPU performance to the next level. It makes 4K 60+ FPS gaming accessible on GPUs like the RX 9060 XT. It allows high-end GPUs to achieve even greater frame rates. They can even make the RTX 2070 SUPER a 1440p 60+ FPS GPU with the right settings. You don’t need to enable upscalers to have a good experience with Battlefield 6, but they can help you have an even better experience.
Frame Generation is a controversial feature amongst PC gamers. Battlefield 6 is one of the first games I’ve tried DLSS Multi-Frame Generation with, and to say the least, I am impressed. At 4K with DLSS Performance mode with 4x Multi-Frame generation, I was playing Battlefield 6 with an average framerate of over 300 FPS, and the game felt smooth. It made me want one of those new 240Hz 4K OLED monitors, so that I could see more of those frames in action. Yes, “real” frames are better from a latency perspective, but from a smoothness perspective, Multi-Frame Generation is a great feature.
We also tried out Battlefield 6 with FSR Frame Generation. It also delivered a smooth experience. With Battlefield 6 supporting AMD Anti-Lag, Nvidia Reflex, and Intel Low Latency, input lag is minimised in Battlefield 6 regardless of your GPU’s manufacturer. While many purists will prefer not to use Frame Generation, it is a useful add-on for gamers who want to make better use of their high refresh rate monitors.
Overall, Battlefield 6 is a fun game that runs well on a wide range of PC hardware configurations. The game runs well and looks good. Honestly, this is a breath of fresh air for us here at OC3D. While we love testing the latest hardware, we don’t want modern games being locked behind expensive hardware. Beyond that, we don’t have PC gamers having a sub-par experience. Recently, many new PC game releases have been running poorly even on the highest-end PCs. Battlefield 6 is a welcome break from that. This game runs well and doesn’t suffer from any stuttering issues. It just works.
PS, we hope to test more graphics cards and add additional data to our performance charts over the coming days.
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