I’ve simply completed watching GTA 6 trailer two for the fiftieth time, and I nonetheless cannot comprehend simply how unimaginable Rockstar’s newest entry on this iconic franchise is trying. Nonetheless, it is also received me fearful that my gaming PC goes to wish a couple of upgrades, regardless of my earlier confidence that there can be no want to fret.
It has been over 18 months since I defiantly said that the GTA 6 system necessities would not have me panicked and updating my PC gaming {hardware} simply but. Nicely, how occasions change, as a result of GTA 6 trailer two for the open-world crime sport simply left my jaw vast open, and it is received me pondering it is perhaps time to improve to the very best graphics card I can afford, simply to be protected.
Trailer two for GTA 6 is visually phenomenal. I am not simply speaking in regards to the constancy of the character fashions or the colourful, bustling world of Vice Metropolis, however the sheer high quality of the lighting alone is nearly intimidating when you concentrate on the {hardware} it would require. The way in which rays of sunshine so naturally bounce off pores and skin or reflective surfaces is critically spectacular, and hopefully a good illustration of how the ultimate product will look.
Nonetheless, this super-realistic ray tracing motion has additionally made me rethink my earlier stance on the PC model of GTA 6, and take into account that it might turn into one of the vital demanding PC video games in current reminiscence.
We have seen video games push their system necessities to extremely excessive ranges earlier than, particularly the pre-optimized Alan Wake 2 system necessities, and the ray-tracing dependent Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle system necessities.
If trailer two is something to go by, there’s each probability that the PC necessities for GTA 6 will begin with a GPU such because the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 on the naked minimal and scale as much as the RTX 4090, and even an RTX 5000 sequence card – you might even must allow multi body gen to get easy body charges when it is all maxed out. The flipside to this argument is that we’re nonetheless but to see gameplay, and we’ve got no additional context for the {hardware} used to run every thing that has been proven thus far.
When GTA 5 first launched on PC again in 2015, nevertheless, the system necessities have been on par with what was anticipated on the time. We nonetheless do not know when the PC model of GTA 6 is coming, in fact, however, on condition that the PS5 Professional already incorporates among the newest AMD GPU {hardware}, I am hoping that it will not take lengthy to port over, and that the GTA 6 system necessities will not be too surprising.
One other potential ace up the sleeve for the GTA 6 PC port is assist for the newest upscaling and body gen tech, resembling Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR, with the previous unavailable on the newest PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and the latter solely obtainable on the PS5 Professional in its newest type. It took a really very long time to get DLSS into the PC model of GTA 5, though DLSS wasn’t launched till 2019 and FSR in 2021. It will be surprising if this tech have been absent on day one of many PC launch, nevertheless.
Returning to Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle for a second, that is doubtlessly the very best level of comparability we’ve got proper now, given how intense the sport is at its Supreme graphical preset with ray-tracing maxed out. Even with Nvidia DLSS set to High quality and body era enabled, the RTX 4070 I am at present utilizing is barely able to a mean body fee of 9fps at 1080p in our testing. It would not even run at 1440p.
Lowing the ray-tracing calls for, however sticking with the Extremely graphical preset at 1440p, the typical body fee comes all the best way as much as 83fps, with a 1% low of 72fps, a end result that’s way more comforting.
My hope is that the GTA 6 PC port, every time it’s prepared, scales very similar to every other fashionable sport and continues to be playable for these on older gaming PCs, and even handhelds such because the Steam Deck.
Solely time will inform if that is so, and with the GTA 6 launch date now considerably set in stone, albeit for subsequent yr, it is perhaps a while till we get any agency particulars on the PC launch.
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