Borderlands Season 3 is available 10 years after the first season, which was released in 2009. The game is developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. In this article, we'll look at the PC configurations required to run this game, as well as various graphics card tests. This game is known to be quite demanding on 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 (in 1080p), this game requires a computer with the following specifications:
- 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 2GB of graphics memory
- Free disk space: 75 GB
If you want to play at 1440p, the recommended configurations are as follows:
- 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 of graphics memory
- Free space: 75 GB
Several settings can be adjusted within the game to optimize graphics resolution. These settings can be modified as desired depending on the desired result and your hardware capabilities. Here are the basic settings. It is recommended to use a graphical interface that supports DirectX 11 and DirectX 12. You can choose full-screen display mode with a borderless application window.
The resolution scale can be adjusted from 50% to 200% in 25% increments. You can also choose the frame rate limit from the following options: 30 FPS, 50 FPS, 60 FPS, 72 FPS, 120 FPS, unlimited, or customize the rate to your liking. You can then calibrate the screen (brightness, HDR) and the interface settings. As for the field of view, you can set it to the default 90 or adjust it between 70 and 110. The HUD scale can be adjusted between 0.6 and 1.3.
You can also adjust the advanced settings. Borderlands 3 can be played with or without the following features: FidelityFX Sharpening and Motion Blur. Anti-aliasing can be configured as FXAA, temporal, or disabled. Various other settings can also be configured, such as texture streaming, anisotropic filtering, shading, draw distance, texture detail, amount of miscellaneous objects, tessellation, foliage, ambient occlusion, volumetric fog, screen-space reflections, and more
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: the RX 570 at 34 FPS, the RX 580 at 39 FPS, the GTX 1660 at 46 FPS, and the GTX 1660 Ti at 52 FPS. The following cards, however, allow for frame rates above 60 FPS: 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.
Let's now test this game at 1440p resolution. The following graphics cards are lagging behind. They produce frames 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, and the RX 2070 at 50 FPS. Only a few cards were able to deliver a frame rate above 60 FPS: the RTX 2080 at 61 FPS, the RTX 2080 Super at 64 FPS, and the RTX 2080 Ti at 76 FPS.
At 2160p, all the cards listed below achieve less than 60 FPS. Even the RTX 2080 Ti lags behind, delivering an average frame rate of only 44 FPS. The others are significantly worse: 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, and the RTX 2080 Super at 36 FPS. However, you can achieve a frame rate above 60 FPS with the new generation RTX 3080 .
Based on this benchmark, we can say that Borderlands 3 is quite demanding on graphics resources. A next-generation machine with a next-generation graphics card would be required to play this title in 4K. The game can be played without issue on most of our cards at a FullHD 1080p resolution. For UltraHD, you would need an RTX 2080 graphics card or a card with equivalent or superior performance.
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, for PC and in November 2020 for PS5. It is the fourth season of the Borderlands series. The 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 heavily criticized by various gaming communities, particularly on Reddit and Twitter. The CEO of Gearbox Software had to intervene to explain 2K's choice: "It's a commercial agreement to launch the Epic Games Store."
This game received a score of 85/100 from the British review aggregator Metacritic. It's doing quite well, then. The shooting mechanics are excellent, with visuals that are significantly improved compared to Borderlands 2. There's never a dull moment. The action is non-stop, and there are even occasional touches of humor that will make gamers smile or even laugh. However, the AI has been criticized. The game features four playable characters: Moze, Amara, FL4K, and Zane .
In short, it's not possible to play Borderlands 3 at 60 FPS in 4K resolution, even with the RTX 2080 Ti. However, you can exceed 60 FPS in 2K resolution with the RTX 2080. If you still want to play this title in 4K, you can choose a latest-generation graphics card: the RTX 3080 allows for 69 FPS, the RTX 3090 achieves 78 FPS, the Palit RTX 3090 Gaming Pro also reaches 78 FPS, and the MSI RTX 3090 Gaming X TRIO achieves an average frame rate of 81 FPS.
