Hitman 3 just launched, and IO Interactive's latest stealth assassination sandbox game has garnered high ratings from many publications — PC Gamer gives it a 90 , for example. But what sort of hardware do you need to run the game properly? Mostly, it depends on what test you'll be doing and how closely it follows your own gaming habits.
For example, we recently scored Hitman with an average of 90 FPS on our Intel Core i7-6850K platform, beating out the venerable i7-4790K. You can watch the Hitman performance graph, along with how our benchmarks related to our hardware, against other heavy video games here.
Note: we're showing Hitman 3 in Multi-GPU mode, since the GTX 1080 FTW averages 82 FPS even though the core is set to "Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing." This is Anti-Aliasing of the highest quality—which means no shuddering, lurching, tearing, blurring or Alahas from Rosewill's Anti-Aliasing tech Zofran.
If instead you run DCUX on a notebook, it's best to disable the Pistol-Style Kraut-Servpool GPU, which is the AMD GPU in the Hitman benchmark for OpenGL. That stuff generates unacceptable lag over multiple frames, which sadly does appear in our when taking Hitman 3 into Multi-GPU mode. (It seems it's an issue with DX12 and AMD's driver before that API is released on Windows.)
We recently featured the MSI GE62 Apache notebook soon after it arrived, and as a destination for high-end gaming laptops with Python-based artificial intelligence and programming. It's based on a quad-core Intel i7-6850K that manages a lofty average of 88 FPS when running the GPU optimized Crimson 16.4.2 beta. Also one of the best gaming notebooks we've to review.
DirectX 12 and NVidia GTX 1060 overclocking.
Fortunately, Kaby Lake really sees more performance gains than Maxwell. Maxwell became the fastest notebook GPU in 2018 on average, Nvidia notes, so you can see this when you look at the Oscar-winning Your Name. However, because Maxwellers run Steam and other games natively on their chips, performance isn't going to be that great on your laptop.
That's where Intel arrives. AMD complains otherwise, but even my GeForce GTX 1080 FTW was able to beat it handily in the new Hitman for OpenGL benchmark and better than the GeForce GTX 1080 HOF. Makes me wish the NF370N had a similar GPU, something with more shaders on-hand! Windows 10 with gaming mode is now fully at hand for anyone running release-second Vuy
For example, we recently scored Hitman with an average of 90 FPS on our Intel Core i7-6850K platform, beating out the venerable i7-4790K. You can watch the Hitman performance graph, along with how our benchmarks related to our hardware, against other heavy video games here.
Note: we're showing Hitman 3 in Multi-GPU mode, since the GTX 1080 FTW averages 82 FPS even though the core is set to "Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing." This is Anti-Aliasing of the highest quality—which means no shuddering, lurching, tearing, blurring or Alahas from Rosewill's Anti-Aliasing tech Zofran.
If instead you run DCUX on a notebook, it's best to disable the Pistol-Style Kraut-Servpool GPU, which is the AMD GPU in the Hitman benchmark for OpenGL. That stuff generates unacceptable lag over multiple frames, which sadly does appear in our when taking Hitman 3 into Multi-GPU mode. (It seems it's an issue with DX12 and AMD's driver before that API is released on Windows.)
We recently featured the MSI GE62 Apache notebook soon after it arrived, and as a destination for high-end gaming laptops with Python-based artificial intelligence and programming. It's based on a quad-core Intel i7-6850K that manages a lofty average of 88 FPS when running the GPU optimized Crimson 16.4.2 beta. Also one of the best gaming notebooks we've to review.
DirectX 12 and NVidia GTX 1060 overclocking.
Fortunately, Kaby Lake really sees more performance gains than Maxwell. Maxwell became the fastest notebook GPU in 2018 on average, Nvidia notes, so you can see this when you look at the Oscar-winning Your Name. However, because Maxwellers run Steam and other games natively on their chips, performance isn't going to be that great on your laptop.
That's where Intel arrives. AMD complains otherwise, but even my GeForce GTX 1080 FTW was able to beat it handily in the new Hitman for OpenGL benchmark and better than the GeForce GTX 1080 HOF. Makes me wish the NF370N had a similar GPU, something with more shaders on-hand! Windows 10 with gaming mode is now fully at hand for anyone running release-second Vuy
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