Season 3 of Borderlands is available 10 years after the first season which was first released in 2009. This game is developed by studio Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. In this article, we will see the configurations that allow you to run this PC game as well as different graphics card tests with this title. This game is known to be quite demanding in terms of graphics resources. Let's take a closer look.
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PC configurations and settings for the game Death Stranding
As a minimum configuration (at 1080p), this game requires a computer with the following configurations:
- System: Windows 7/8/10
- Processor: AMD FX-8350 or Intel i5-3570
- Memory: 6 GB
- Graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 7970 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 with 2 GB graphics memory
- Free disk space: 75 GB
If you want to play at 1440p, the recommended configurations are:
- System: Windows 7/8/10
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or Intel i7-4770
- RAM: 16 GB
- Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 590 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 with 6 GB graphics memory
- Free space: 75 GB
Different settings must be adjusted at the game level to optimize the graphics resolution. These configurations can be modified at will depending on the expected result and your hardware capacity. Here are the basic configurations. It is recommended to use a graphical interface supporting DirectX 11 and DirectX 12. You can choose full screen display mode without a borderless application window.
The resolution scale can be adjusted between 50% and 200% with an adjustment notch of 25%. You can also choose the image refresh rate limit from the frequencies offered: 30 FPS, 50 FPS, 60 FPS, 72 FPS, 120 FPS, unlimited or customize the frequency as you wish. You can then calibrate the screen (brightness, HDR) and the interface limit. As for the fields of view, you can set them to 90 by default or adjust them between 70 and 110. For the ATH scale, it can be adjusted between 0.6 and 1.3.
You can also adjust advanced settings. Borderlands 3 can be played with or without the following features: FidelityFX Sharpening and Motion Blur. Antialiasing can be configured as FXAA, temporal or disabled. Various other settings can also be configured such as streaming textures, anisotropic filter, shading, display distance, texture details, quantity of various objects, tessellation, foliage, ambient occlusion, volumetric fog, screen-space reflections…
Benchmarking with Borderlands 3
We will test this game with different graphics cards. We will choose 3 resolutions: 1080p, 1440p and 2160p.
At 1080p, the following cards produce images at less than 60 FPS: RX 570 at 34 FPS, RX 580 at 39 FPS, GTX 1660 at 46 FPS, GTX 1660 Ti at 52 FPS. The following cards, on the other hand, allow you to have a frame rate per second level greater than 60: the RTX 2060 at 63 FPS, the RX 5700 XT at 64 FPS, the RX 2070 at 75 FPS, the RTX 2080 at 89 FPS, the RTX 2080 Super at 96 FPS and the RTX 2080 Ti at 107 FPS.
Now let's test this game with 1440p resolution. The following graphics cards are a bit behind the times. They produce images at less than 60 FPS: the RX 570 at 24 FPS, the RX 580 at 28 FPS, the GTX 1660 at 29 FPS, the GTX 1660 Ti at 34 FPS, the RTX 2060 at 41 FPS, the RX 5700 XT at 44 FPS, the RX 2070 at 50 FPS. Only a few cards were able to provide a frame rate per second higher than 60 FPS: the RTX 2080 at 61 FPS, the RTX 2080 Super at 64 FPS, the RTX 2080 Ti at 76 FPS.
At 2160p, all subsequent cards are under 60 FPS. Even the RTX 2080 Ti is lagging behind. It only provides an average frame rate of 44 FPS. The others are well below: the RX 570 at 8 FPS, the RX 580 at 15 FPS, the GTX 1660 at 10 FPS, the GTX 1660 Ti at 13 FPS, the RTX 2060 at 19 FPS, the RX 5700 XT at 27 FPS , the RX 2070 at 27 FPS, the RTX 2080 at 33 FPS, the RTX 2080 Super at 36 FPS. RTX 3080 card family .
From this bench, we can say that Borderlands 3 is quite demanding in terms of graphics resources. A latest generation machine with a latest generation card would be required for this title to be played in 4K. This game can be played without issue with most of our cards on FullHD 1080p resolution. In UltraHD, you would need an RTX 2080 graphics card or an equivalent or higher performance card.
About the game Borderlands 3
Borderlands 3 is an action RPG shooter developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games . It was released on September 13, 2019 on PC and in November 2020 on the PS5 platform. It's season 4 of the Borderlands series. The very first season was released in 2009. This title uses Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4. It was sold exclusively on the Epic Games Store until March 2020. This exclusivity was vigorously criticized by different gaming communities, particularly on Reddit and Twitter. The CEO of Gearbox Software had to intervene to explain the choice of 2K: It's a commercial agreement to launch the Epic Games Store.
This game received a score of 85/100 from the English reviewer Metacritic. So he's doing poorly. The shooting sensations are at the top with a much improved action visual compared to Borderlands 2. There is no downtime. There is no shortage of action and there are sometimes even touches of humor in the game that will make gamers smile or even laugh. The game-level AI is nevertheless criticized. This game features 4 playable characters including Moze, Amara, FL4K and Zane .
In short, it is not possible to play at 60 FPS in 4K resolution with Borderlands 3 even with the RTX 2080 Ti. You can nevertheless exceed 60 FPS in 2K resolution with the RTX 2080 card. If you nevertheless want to play at 4K on this title, you can choose a latest generation graphics card: the RTX 3080 allows you to have 69 FPS, the RTX 3090 obtains 78 FPS, the Palit RTX 3090 Gaming Pro is at 78 FPS and the MSI RTX 3090 Gaming X TRIO obtains an average frame rate per second of 81 FPS.
