Aquanox Deep Descent PC Performance Analysis

Aquanox Deep Descent is a first-person underwater automobile shooter that got here out on the PC final month. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, it’s time now to benchmark it and see the way it performs on the PC platform.

For this PC Efficiency Evaluation, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3600Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX580 and RX Vega 64, NVIDIA’s RTX 2080Ti, GTX980Ti and GTX690. We additionally used Home windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce driver 457.09 and the Radeon Software program Adrenalin 2020 Version 20.10.1 drivers. NVIDIA has not added any SLI profile for this recreation, which means that our GTX690 behaved equally to a single GTX680.

Digital Arrow has carried out just a few graphics settings to tweak. PC avid gamers can modify the standard of Volumetric, Supplies, Textures, Publish-processing, Foliage, VFX and View Distance.

With the intention to learn the way the sport scales on a number of CPU threads, we simulated a dual-core, a quad-core and a hexa-core CPU. Much like different Unreal Engine 4 video games, Aquanox Deep Descent doesn’t require a high-end CPU. With Hyper Threading enabled, our simulated dual-core system was in a position to run the sport with greater than 100fps at 1080p/Very Excessive settings. The sport was unplayable on that very same system after we disabled Hyper Threading, although, attributable to extreme stuttering points. Moreover, the sport carried out higher on our different PC programs when Hyper Threading was de-activated.

Our older technology Intel i7 4930K CPU was additionally in a position to run Aquanox Deep Descent easily. Whereas there’s a large efficiency distinction between the i7 4930K and the i9 9900K, we have been nonetheless in a position to get a relentless 60fps expertise.

Now whereas Aquanox Deep Descent doesn’t require a high-end CPU, it definitely requires a strong GPU. Our AMD Radeon RX580 was merely unable to supply a 60fps expertise at 1080p/Very Excessive settings.

Not solely that, however Aquanox Deep Descent is yet one more Unreal Engine 4 recreation wherein the GTX980Ti was in a position to surpass the RX Vega 64. Whereas the efficiency hole at 1080p is small, we are able to see the GTX980Ti pulling forward at 1440p and 4K. Moreover, our RTX2080Ti was unable to, as soon as once more, provide a clean gaming expertise at 4K/Very Excessive settings. Do observe that we’ve used probably the most GPU-heavy scenes we might discover within the recreation. Which means the RTX2080Ti can run different scenes with greater than 70fps in 4K/Very Excessive settings.

Graphics-wise, Aquanox Deep Descent is among the greatest first-person underwater video games. Digital Arrow has used a whole lot of high-resolution textures, so kudos to it. Furthermore, the sport packs some wonderful lighting results, in addition to some cool underwater results. For comparability functions, Aquanox Deep Descent seems noticeably higher than each Maneater or Past Blue. It’s not good (I’d actually like to see beefier explosions than what the sport presently affords). Nevertheless, it’s positively higher than what I used to be initially anticipating to see.

In conclusion, Aquanox Deep Descent is a nice shock on the PC. The sport doesn’t require a high-end CPU, and its visuals by some means justify its excessive GPU necessities. Following Ghostrunner, although, that is yet one more Unreal Engine 4 recreation that underperforms on AMD’s {hardware}. Nevertheless, we needs to be blaming AMD for this and never the sport’s builders. We also needs to observe that we didn’t expertise any stability points. So yeah, whereas it’s not good, Aquanox Deep Descent runs fairly nice on the PC.

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