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the luscious visuals generated by
Far Cry: New Dawn Ubisoft’s Snowdrop engine make it

(Frames per second)
even easier to get lost in post-
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Nvidia GeForce RTX
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The built-in benchmark cycles
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Radeon RX 5700 84 through four “zones” to test an array
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of environments, and we test with
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Sapphire Radeon RX 84 the DirectX 12 renderer enabled. It
5700 Pulse
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provides better performance
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Nvidia GeForce RTX across-the-board than the DX11
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2060 Super (FE)
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renderer, but requires Windows 10.
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Far Cry: New Dawn
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Nvidia GeForce RTX
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Dawn drags Far Cry 5’s wonderful
1080p 1440p 4K
gameplay into a post-apocalyptic
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future of its own, though this
vision is a lot more bombastic—
Strange Brigade and pink—than The Division 2’s

(Frames per second) bleak setting. The game runs on

125 the latest version of the long-
Nvidia GeForce RTX 87
2060 (FE)
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131 slightly more strenuous than Far
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Sapphire Radeon RX
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143 Strange Brigade ($50 on Humble
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60 at go.pcworld.com/bysb) is a
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 121 blasts through hordes of
2070 Super (FE)
71 mythological enemies. It’s a
1080p 1440p 4K technological showcase, built
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around the next-gen Vulkan and

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