The Last Of Us Part 2 Performance Benchmark

[W1zzard]

The Last of Us Part 2 is finally available for PC, bringing the legendary game to the PCMasterRace. In our performance review, we examine its graphical fidelity, VRAM usage, and how well it runs on a variety of modern GPUs.

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[Scattergrunt]

RIP 8GB VRAM cards. Still though, not as bad as I thought it was gonna be. Just tune some settings down and you're good to go.

 

[DarkDreams]

@W1zzard In the Image Quality Comparison the framerates are worse for lower quality settings according to the dropdown menus. Is that actually the case or are the numbers just the wrong way around?

 

[matar]

I am playing it MAXED out DLSS set to Quality 3440x1440 144z monitor and getting 100-138fps i am so happy its well optimized.
oh and VRAM is not what techpowerup has.
it uses much less ok part 1 was very VRAM hungry in my case, Part 2 maxed out @3440x1440 from 9GB to 10GB VRAM hope this helps.

 

[Prima.Vera]

I think the data from Very Low to Very High, on the Image Quality Comparison category is reversed for some reason, haha.

Regarding the VRAM, were there any stuttering with 8GB cards on higher resolutions with FrameGen enabled? Like noticeable stuttering due to lack of VRAM?

 

[DarkPoe]

Nice that TPU has the greatest and latest unreleased tech @W1zzard

 

[Visible Noise]

RIP 8GB VRAM cards. Still though, not as bad as I thought it was gonna be. Just tune some settings down and you're good to go.

Repeat after me:

Allocation isn’t usage, which is why the 8GB and 16GB 4060TI cards perform the same. Even at 4K very high quality upscaling.

 

[Heiro78]

You've shown your full @W1zzard powers!

On the image quality comparison page, you've got it written that you're using a 5090 Super

How is the future? more greener or grayer?

 

[W1zzard]

@W1zzard In the Image Quality Comparison the framerates are worse for lower quality settings according to the dropdown menus. Is that actually the case or are the numbers just the wrong way around?

Fixed

 

[Phayzon]

RIP 8GB VRAM cards.

Tell me you didn't actually look at any of the data without telling me you didn't look at any of the data.

58fps Lows at 1440p for the 3070, 8 and 16GB 4060Tis functionally tied, 8GB 4060 ahead of 12GB 3060.

 

[harm9963]

With my 4090 and 5950X RAM 4266 CL18-20-20-20 4X16GB, I use Exclusive fullscreen ,and Cinematic settings ,4K native max -TAA , but still matching up pretty well , even with 4K capture ,that kills about 10 fps.

 

[x4it3n]

Hi @W1zzard what area did you chose to benchmark? Because my 4090 even at Stock gets around 100-110fps most of the time so the fact that you get 95fps is a bit weird though.

 

[harm9963]

Hi @W1zzard what area did you chose to benchmark? Because my 4090 even at Stock gets around 100-110fps most of the time so the fact that you get 95fps is a bit weird though.

Same here !

 

[x4it3n]

RIP 8GB VRAM cards. Still though, not as bad as I thought it was gonna be. Just tune some settings down and you're good to go.

What are you talking about?

This is at 4K:

If 8GB was an issue in this game, then the 4060 Ti 16GB would have destroyed the 8GB version.... It seems like Nixxes found a way to reallocate data to the RAM without performance loss. Which is great news for gamers with only 8GB GPUs.

=> Kudos to Nixxes for the amazing port! Part I was a disaster (even if it was not Nixxes but Iron Galaxy), but Part II is extremely well optimized, so in an era of "broken games at launch", let's be very appreciative of the great work Nixxes have done !

 

[obs]

Seems to run quite good which shouldn't be a surprise but it usually is lately.

 

[_roman_]

RIP 8GB VRAM cards. Still though, not as bad as I thought it was gonna be. Just tune some settings down and you're good to go.

It's not something we all knew since the very old outdated Nvidia 3070. Or with the radeon 6600XT introduction.

edit: The game is not very demanding. Be happy it runs on very low end hardware. (i was not very impressed by the free giveaway gave of part 1 for the amd hardware i bought)

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I thought it was interesting that the 4090 is as far behind the 5090 in this title as it is, the two cards seem much closer in newer titles/RT benchmarks (maybe that's just a visual trick of bar graphs though).

Guess the extra shading power punches above its weight when not being dragged down by RT?

 

[Scattergrunt]

It's not something we all knew since the very old outdated Nvidia 3070. Or with the radeon 6600XT introduction.

Yes, I know, I just figured that this game is kind of a wakeup call. Since there are still some people insisting 8GB VRAM cards are fine for 1080p@60FPS w/ ultra or max settings.

What are you talking about?

This is at 4K:
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If 8GB was an issue in this game, then the 4060 Ti 16GB would have destroyed the 8GB version.... It seems like Nixxes found a way to reallocate data to the RAM without performance loss. Which is great news for gamers with only 8GB GPUs.

=> Kudos to Nixxes for the amazing port! Part I was a disaster (even if it was not Nixxes but Iron Galaxy), but Part II is extremely well optimized, so in an era of "broken games at launch", let's be very appreciative of the great work Nixxes have done !

I went off the vram usage chart. It isnt hard to get your settings to not use so much vram as is.

I will agree with you though that it is well optimized, surprisingly.

Anyway, I guess it comes off like people took my little 'rip 8gb vram cards' a little too seriously. Oh well.

 

[santis]

I´m running the PC of my specs @1440p everything in High, no FG, FSR 4 native AA and was ok for like 2 and a half hours of gameplay but started to get constant: "0x887A0006 - DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG" crashes. 9070XT on latest AMD Radeon Graphics Drivers 25.3.2 Beta. Anyone with the same issue?

 

[Battler624]

the fucks up with the 4090 performance.

 

[Sol_Badguy]

Weird results -> don't mean anything by it, all but appreciation towards W1zzard.

It's like the engine is specifically optimized for Blackwell.
5070 Ti beats the 4080 Super despite having less muscle than the 4080 (the only advantage over the 4080 is bandwidth).
The 5080 is unplausibly close to the 4090. Imagine the SH market prices dropping after buyers look at these results.
The 5070 is halfway between the 4070 Ti and the 4070 Ti Super, despite having less processing units than the 4070 Super.

Either nVidia is pulling a fast one with the driver* or I don't know, maybe that recent "performance unlock farce" has some kind of truth behind it.
Blackwell definitely seems like a new architecture on a new node almost when looking at the results in this game.
*I wonder what would testing some game recordings with VMAF show?
Yeah this game is like a showcase for how much better Blackwell is compared to Ada...

 

[Bruno_O]

when will they stop milking this cow....

 

[arbiter]

sadly they didn't put dlss 4 in the game they using 3.7 from default.

 

[KaptainVet]

Another amazing review! Which 5090 was used?

 

[x4it3n]

sadly they didn't put dlss 4 in the game they using 3.7 from default.

You can use DLSS 4 via replacing the DLSS dll :

NVIDIA DLSS DLL 310.2 Download

This download provides various versions of NVIDIA's DLSS DLL for download. In this one file, which is bundled with all games that support NVIDIA's

www.techpowerup.com

NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation DLL 310.2.1 Download

This download provides various versions of NVIDIA's DLSS 3 DLL for download. In this one file, which is bundled with all games that support DLSS 3

www.techpowerup.com

Follow those instructions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1i82rp6