Wrap Up: What Kind of Hardware Do Y'all Demand?

Star Wars Battlefront is a truly gorgeous video game and arguably the best we've seen this yr. Considering how exceptional the visuals are, the game'south GPU demands aren't that infrequent. For example, at 1080p you tin can savor the game in all of its glory with naught more than a $200 graphics card, the Radeon R9 380 or GeForce GTX 960.

Previous-gen mid-range products such as the GeForce GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7950 can also deliver playable operation at 1080p. Even budget graphics cards such as the GTX 950 will go you past with 48fps, which is non an ideal but certainly playable.

For 1440p gaming the GPU requirement is even so reasonable, with $300 options such equally the Radeon R9 390 or GeForce GTX 970 able to provide perfectly shine gameplay.

Equally is oft the case, those wanting to game at 4K will require at least two R9 390 or GTX 970 graphics cards or improve.

We did not test the multiplayer portion of the game as information technology'due south not possible to go 40 players doing the same thing several dozen times to record accurate results. Just for unmarried thespian and co-op missions the game worked fine on the dual-cadre Pentium G3258, showing big gains once information technology was overclocked to four.5GHz. The Cadre i3 processors as well worked well, though they did dip lower than the FX and Athlon X4 processors.

For those of you wondering, nosotros also tested several cards reducing the quality preset from ultra to loftier, which boosts functioning by around thirty%, while going from high to medium additional frame rates by some other xx%. The game likewise never used more than 4GB'south of VRAM when using the ultra-quality settings, even at 4K.

Last but non least, both SLI and Crossfire are working out of the box with electric current drivers, which is smashing news for 4K gamers as they will no dubiety exist looking to accept advantage of multi-GPU technology.