Star Wars Jedi Survivor Tested – Huge performance gains with PC Patch 3.5
CPU Performance Transformed – But it needs to be improved further Â
At launch, the CPU performance of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was a disaster, and in some ways it still is. Below we have an image of Star Wars Jedi Survivor running at 1080p Low settings on an Intel i9-13900K processor, and an Gigabyte Geforce RTX 4090 Windforce, one of the fastest CPU/GPU combinations available to gamers today, and it was running at sub-60 FPS framerates.Â
Thankfully, patch 3.5 has increased the framerate of this specific scene from 51 FPS to 76 FPS (a huge 49% performance increase), but the update does not boost Jedi: Survivor’s performance when ray tracing is enabled, at 76 FPS is still a poor result for a ultra-high-end system. PC gamers with more modest hardware are still seeing performance dips below 60 FPS frequently.
(Day-1 Performance VS Patch 3.5 – 1080p Low Settings (RT Off))
  
CPU Performance
Below we have tested the CPU performance of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor running around the village in Koboh. We had tested this scene with the day-1 version of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor before the game’s 3.5 update landed, so we have included both pre-patch and post-patch performance numbers below.Â
While the performance of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has not changed dramatically when ray tracing is enabled, we can see significant performance gains when ray tracing is disabled. Update 3.5 helps make Star Wars Jedi: Survivor run a lot smoother than before, though the huge gap between 5th percentile and 1st percentile framerates is a clear sign that frametimes remain very inconsistent. Framerate dips and frametime stutters remain, as loading-related stutters remain prevalent in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
If you want smoother CPU performance in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, turn off ray tracing. While this will not deal with shader compilation stutters and loading related performance dips, it will make the game run a lot smoother.
