Video games released after Battlefield V make full use of Ray Tracing and DLSS. The environment of the Metro Exodus game does not allow us to really see, among other things, the mirror effect supported by Ray Tracing: lots of fog and snow outside, quite dark lighting inside. Metro exodus nevertheless makes full use of Ray Tracing to provide gamers with the best possible effects with current technologies. In this article, we will see the minimum configurations to have to play this title. We will also do a comparative study of different graphics cards tested on this title and talk a little about this Metro Exodus game.
PC requirements for playing Metro exodus
To play Metro exodus in Full HD 1080p with a frequency of 30 FPS, you must have at least the following configurations:
- Operating system: Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10
- CPU: Intel Core I5-4440 or equivalent
- RAM: 8 GB
- GPU: GeForce GTX 670 / GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon HD 7870
- VRAM: 2 GB
- DirectX: DirectX 11 / DirectX 12
If you want to play this title in Full HD 1080p with a notable 60 FPS, here are the recommended minimum configurations:
- Operating system: Windows 10
- CPU: Intel Core I7-4770K or equivalent
- RAM: 8 GB
- GPU: GeForce GTX 1070 / GeForce RTX 2060 / AMD RX VEGA 56
- VRAM: 8 GB
- DirectX: DirectX 12
To be able to play Metro Exodus in QHD 1440p with a frame rate of 60 FPS, you must have at least the following configurations:
- Operating system: Windows 10
- CPU: Intel Core I7-8700K or equivalent
- RAM: 16 GB
- GPU: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti / GeForce RTX 2070 / AMD RX VEGA 64
- VRAM: 8 GB
- DirectX: DirectX 12
If you want to play at Extreme 4K resolution with a frame rate per second of 60 FPS, we recommend having the following PC configurations:
- Operating system: Windows 10
- CPU: Intel Core I9-9900K or equivalent
- RAM: 16 GB
- GPU: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
- VRAM: 11 GB
- DirectX: DirectX 12
Benchmark of different graphics cards on Metro exodus
In this test, we will first test the cards without activating Ray Tracing.
GTX 1070 card is below 60 FPS, it provides an average Frame Rate of 50 FPS. The following cards obtain an image refresh rate above 60 FPS: the RTX 3090 at 163 FPS, the RTX 3080 at 145 FPS, the AMD RADEON RX 6800 XT at 158 FPS, the RTX 2060 Super at 74 FPS, the AMD RX VEGA 64 at 79 FPS, the GTX 1080 at 67 FPS , the RTX 2060 at 68 FPS , the RX 5600 XT at 72 FPS, the AMD RX VEGA 56 at 69 FPS.
In Quad HD 1440p, the following cards are below 60 FPS: the RTX 2060 Super at 59 FPS, the GTX 1080 at 54 FPS, the RTX 2060 at 52 FPS, the RX 5600 XT at 55 FPS, the AMD RX VEGA 56 at 53 FPS, the GTX 1070 at 46 FPS. The following cards perform well with frame rates above 60 FPS: RTX 3090 at 140 FPS, RTX 3080 at 123 FPS, AMD RADEON RX 6800 XT at 123 FPS, AMD RX VEGA 64 at 61 FPS.
In 4K 2160p resolution, only the following graphics cards were able to provide frequencies above 60 FPS: the RTX 3090 at 97 FPS, the RTX 3080 at 75 FPS, the RADEON RX 6800 XT at 75 FPS. The other cards struggle a little and are less than 60 FPS: the RX VEGA 64 at 37 FPS, the RTX 2060 Super at 35 FPS, the GTX 1080 at 33 FPS, the RTX 2060 at 32 FPS, the RX 5600 XT at 32 FPS, the RX VEGA 56 at 31 FPS, the GTX 1070 at 27 FPS.
Now let's test some graphics cards with Ray Tracing enabled. In Full HD 1080p, the following cards are less than 60 FPS: the RTX 2060 Super at 51 FPS, the RTX 2060 at 45 FPS, the GTX 1080 Ti at 16 FPS, the GTX 1080 at 11 FPS, the GTX 1070 at 9 FPS. The following cards deliver frame rates above 60 FPS: RTX 3090 at 128 FPS, RTX 3080 at 112 FPS, RADEON RX 6800 XT at 83 FPS, RADEON RX 6800 at 72 FPS, and RTX 2070 Super at 60 FPS.
In QHD 1440p, with Ray Tracing enabled, the following cards are less than 60 FPS: the RADEON RX 6800 35 FPS, the RTX 2060 at 30 FPS, the GTX 1080 Ti at 9 FPS, the GTX 1080 at 6 FPS, the GTX 1070 at 5 FPS. Only the following cards were able to deliver frame rates above 60 FPS: the RTX 3090 at 95 FPS and the RTX 3080 at 83 FPS.
In 4K 2160p resolution, not all cards manage to reach the fateful bar of 60 FPS. Even the RTX 3090 is at 54 FPS. The average frame rates obtained by the other cards tested are as follows: RTX 3080 at 47 FPS, RADEON RX 6800 2060 Super at 18 FPS, the RTX 2060 at 16 FPS, the GTX 1080 Ti at 4 FPS, the GTX 1080 at 3 FPS, the GTX 1070 at 2 FPS.
About Metro exodus
This game was developed by studio 4A Games . It was released on February 15, 2019. It is a first-person shooter in a post-chaotic world of nuclear war. The engine used being the 4A Engine . The survivors take refuge in a Russian metro. The embodied character decides to leave the metro to explore the outside environment. The adventure therefore begins in an environment hostile to humans with various rather dangerous creatures. This title is played solo only.
In short, Nvidia graphics cards with Turing architecture are favored with games using Ray Tracing. RTX 2080 Ti card with its 68 RT cores. You can also opt for the RTX 2060 (30 cores RT), RTX 2070 (36 cores RT) and the RTX 2080 (68 cores RT) cards. Tensor cores are also used with DLSS super sampling enabled. The RTX 2080 Ti card has 544. The RTX 2060, RTX 2070, RTX 2080 cards have 244, 288, 368 tensor cores respectively. Brand new AMD 6000 series graphics cards such as the Radeon RX 6800 XT are also compatible with Ray Tracing functionality.
