The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Benchmarks

Wild Hunt has improved on several aspects from past games. Combat revolves around an action role-playing game system combined with the use of magic. The fighting system has been completely revamped. Wild Hunt introduces some new mechanics, such as witcher-sense, combat on horseback, and at sea, swimming underwater and using a crossbow. Additionally, Geralt can now jump, climb, and vault over smaller obstacles.

Our measurements are taken in game. Our settings are Ultra quality with AA enabled. Please find an overview of the exact settings here. Hairworks is DISABLED to objectively compare inbetween AMD and Nvidia cards.

Our test run has enabled:

DX11

Ultra mode

AA enabled

16x AF enabled

SSAO enabled

Nvidia hairworks OFF

Other settings ON

As you can see with these settings you are closing in on 41 FPS on average with the Witcher III in WQHD.

The mother of all resolutions for PC gamers anno 2015 is WQHD which is 2560x1440. The most recent patch lowered the average framerate a tiny bit, hence the card is a hint slower.