Bethesda release Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus' PC system requirements and feature

[WYP]

Curiously, AMD's Rapid Packed math is not mentioned.



Read more about Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus' PC version.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Hmmm... those are definitely weird requirements. An R9 290 is actually faster than an RX 470 in some games so to go from 720p Low with a 290 to 1080p High with a 470 is fishy indeed.

Maybe Nvidia's recommended specifications are for 30 FPS.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Super confusing. No idea who to believe!

 

[Kourgath223]

Hmmm... those are definitely weird requirements. An R9 290 is actually faster than an RX 470 in some games so to go from 720p Low with a 290 to 1080p High with a 470 is fishy indeed.

Maybe Nvidia's recommended specifications are for 30 FPS.

If I give Bethesda the benefit of the doubt my assumption would be that the 470 has some feature(s) that the 290 lacks that the game can take advantage of resulting in the 470 being better then the 290 in this case, but I honestly don't know enough about the hardware of each of them to say with any certainty. Otherwise Bethesda is BSing us with these requirements and just assumed that since 470 is a larger number then 290 that it must be better.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Maybe they were drunk when they wrote this. Nvidia's minimum requirements seem a lot more probable, considering how the game looks and the fact that it uses Vulkan.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

If I give Bethesda the benefit of the doubt my assumption would be that the 470 has some feature(s) that the 290 lacks that the game can take advantage of resulting in the 470 being better then the 290 in this case, but I honestly don't know enough about the hardware of each of them to say with any certainty. Otherwise Bethesda is BSing us with these requirements and just assumed that since 470 is a larger number then 290 that it must be better.

It's definitely possible the engine has been tweaked to support Polaris and Vega-specific features, but there's no way the difference would be that huge. Going from 1080p High to 720p Low is massive in any game. You're talking over double the frame rates, which means the RX 470 is over twice as fast an R9 290, which is ludicrous.