Resident Evil 2 Remake PC Performance Review

1080p Performance – GPU Benchmark Results

Looking back at page 2 of this review we can see that Capcom stated that an RX 480 and a GTX 1060 (3GB) are expected to run Resident Evil 2 at 1080p 60FPS, a statement that we can now proclaim as accurate given the results below. 

Our test area includes one of the more demanding areas that we found in the game intersperses with several less strenuous locations, giving Leon a walking tour of the police station. While this does not include the most hardware intensive area that we found, these results represent the vast majority of gameplay, with the game’s most challenging location offering poor performance thanks to the game’s highest Volumetric Lighting settings.  

Yes, while it takes an RX 580 to get constantly over 60FPS in our test run, PC players will only need to lower a single ultra-demanding setting to blast Nvidia’s GTX 1060 past this performance target. Settings optimisations are discussed further on page 10. 

The only graphics cards that have an issue with 1080p Max settings in RE2 are Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 and AMD’s Radeon R9 380, both of which are 2GB graphics cards. These low performance levels are due to VRAM overutilisation, but both of these graphics cards are capable of playing this game at 1080p 60FPS when using the correct settings. See page 12 for more information about this.    

When looking at this graph below it is clear that AMD’s graphics cards hold a performance advantage over their Nvidia counterparts, at least when comparing Vega to Pascal and GCN with Maxwell, with the Radeon RX Vega 56 offering similar performance to the GTX 1080 Founders Edition while our Radeon RX 580 zooms past Nvidia’s GTX 1060.