The Outer Worlds 2 Performance Benchmark Review - 30+ GPUs Tested 79

The Outer Worlds 2 Performance Benchmark Review - 30+ GPUs Tested

Preset Performance & Image Quality »

Graphics Settings

  • There is just a single big graphics settings screen
  • Here you can find the usual monitor settings, "fullscreen," "borderless" and "windowed" are all supported
  • V-Sync can be disabled completely, there is no hidden FPS cap, the game is quite CPU limited though in some open areas, especially when hardware ray tracing is enabled
  • You may also set an FPS limit between 30 and 240 FPS
  • The upscalers available are: "Off," "TAA," "TSR," "FSR," "XeSS" and "DLSS"
  • Please note: when using TAA, there is a bug, that hides the scaling factor UI right below the upscaler list, and it defaults to 66%! So if you want to use TAA, make sure to enable TSR first, set upscaling to 100% or what you prefer, then switch back to TAA, so the right upscaling is applied.
  • Frame generation is available for NVIDIA and Intel but not for AMD, even though FSR 4 is supported for upscaling
  • Motion blur can be disabled
  • "Hardware Ray tracing" switches from the shader-based UE5 Lumen code to a hardware-accelerated approach. This is quite buggy though. For example, there will be lots of noise in the RT images as you can see on our screenshots, also the performance differences are quite small, but you are very heavily CPU limited in many areas, probably because of the BVH RT structure being rebuilt or updated too often
  • Graphics quality presets are: "low," "medium," "high" and "very high"
  • In addition to that there are the typical UE5 settings options
  • At the bottom you can adjust the FOV, between 46 and 115 degrees
  • Chromatic Aberration can be disabled as well

Test System

Test System - GPU 2025.2
Processor:AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Zen 5, 5.2 GHz, 8 cores / 16 threads
Motherboard:MSI X870E Carbon Wi-Fi
BIOS 7E49v1A3
Resizable BAR:Enabled on all supported cards
(NVIDIA, AMD & Intel)
Memory:Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG
2x 16 GB DDR5-6200 28-36-36-76 UCLK 1:1
Cooling:Arctic Liquid Freezer III
280 mm AIO
Thermal Paste:Arctic MX-6
Storage:4 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Power Supply:Seasonic Focus GX 1000 W
ATX 3.0 / 16-pin 12VHPWR
Case:darkFlash DY470
Operating System:Windows 11 Professional 64-bit 24H2
VBS enabled (Windows 11 default)
Drivers: NVIDIA: 581.57 WHQL
AMD: 25.10.1 Beta
Intel: 101.8247 Beta
Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.

  • All cards used for comparison are Founders Edition / reference design. If a reference card does not exist, we use the closest model to ensure default clocks and power limit
  • We tested the public Steam release version, not a press pre-release
  • Our benchmarking scene uses real in-game gameplay in an outdoors location
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