PLAYERUNKNOWN’s BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG) is one of the world's most popular PC games, with record-breaking player counts on Steam, and over 25 million sales. First released in March in Early Access, PUBG will launch officially on December 20th with a new map, new vehicles, new weapons, vaulting, and a ton of optimizations.

If you've played on the new desert map on the pre-release test server, you'll have seen for yourself just how much more optimized PUBG v1.0 is. To get precise data, to help gamers gear up appropriately for PUBG, we teamed up with the game's developers to run hundreds of benchmarks on both the old and new map in their most demanding locations. And what those tests revealed is that it's now possible to run at High settings at 60 FPS on affordable hardware: