Dead Island 2 PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide

Dead Island 2 PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide

1080p Performance

The table below should clearly show you that Dead Island 2 is CPU-limited, with any graphics card at the level of Nvidia’s RTX 2080 Super or over offering nigh-identical performance levels at 1080p Ultra settings with our Ryzen 5 5600X. Yes, we should be using a more powerful CPU for these tests, but we can confirm that new hardware in on the way for our upgraded games test system. Don’t worry, we shouldn’t be using this CPU for much longer.

for 1080p Ultra settings, graphics cards like AMD’s RX 5700 keeping Dead Island 2 at over 60 FPS at almost all times, and the good news is that all of these GPUs can run Dead Island 2 at 60+ FPS with the right settings.

For graphics cards like Nvidia’s RTX 2060, we can see that there are minimal performance gains over the GTX 1660 Super, suggesting that these GPUs may be limited by their 6GB frame buffers. Lowered texture settings can see the lower percentile performance of these GPUs notably increase. Like many modern PC games, 6GB GPUs are struggling when playing Dead Island 2. 

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