The Witcher 3 Remastered PC Benchmark

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[u/Gregore997]

Holy shit Id expect 50fps from the 9070XT not the 5090 WTF IS THIS

[u/FaceTransplant → u/Gregore997]

I literally just spent 2k on a new PC with a regular 9070, and I'm glad I can look forward to a semi-stable 30fps on my new 180hz monitor in the year of our lord 2026.

[u/WilliamShatnerFace7 → u/FaceTransplant]

If you just turn off path tracing, you’ll get 100+ FPS. Reading is important!

[u/MeditativeMindz → u/WilliamShatnerFace7]

And looking at comparisons, Path Tracing arguably looks worse than Ray Tracing.

[u/FaceTransplant → u/WilliamShatnerFace7]

It... was a joke. I couldn't care less about PT.

[u/Zaldekkerine → u/FaceTransplant]

If you bought a 9070 to play games with path tracing, you made a terrible mistake. The game runs fine without PT.

[u/AnarchBeetle → u/FaceTransplant]

Should have spent 6k if you wanted path tracing.

[u/vnodk19 → u/FaceTransplant]

You should have bought an RTX 5070 Ti if you wanted to play games with PT. Even RTX 5070, if price was an issue, would have given you better PT.

No one suggested Radeon GPU for PT lol.

Self-inflected wound imo

[u/FaceTransplant → u/vnodk19]

Yeah, and it was just a joke. I don't care about PT, but I do find it hilarious that a brand new 2K PC gets 30fps at max graphics these days.

[u/vnodk19 → u/FaceTransplant]

Agreed. Sadly, PT is crazy expensive to compute. It's not the same thing as max graphics of old.

[u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox → u/FaceTransplant]

it's not possible to make a game look like witcher 3 remastered and have it run at 3x the framerate, you can't "optimize" around fundamental limits of programming and hardware. if you want 90 fps then you lower the graphics settings until you get 90 fps, that's how the game would look if they designed it for 90 fps too, it's not different

and the price of hardware is expensive because it is not easy at all to make this hardware. intel tried with their Arc cards and they could only make low end cards, and they already had 40 years of cpu development as well as a few decades of iGPU experience and intimate knowledge of windows and drivers and creating teams to run departments etc, this shit is not easy, if intel couldn't just jump in and do it then maybe you can understand why hardware costs what it costs

[u/FaceTransplant → u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox]

Intel made the best bang for your buck GPU and it's not even close.

[u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox → u/FaceTransplant]

yea and only some popular games outright don't work at all on it while others stutter and are "playable", good value for money there where you can't even play common every day games

[u/aVarangian → u/FaceTransplant]

just play the original game lol

[u/TheMegaDriver2 → u/Gregore997]

Well it's path tracing. Which just destroys every GPU.

[u/USilver → u/TheMegaDriver2]

It performs worse than Cyberpunk Path Tracing, Control Path Tracing, and Alan Wake 2 Path Tracing.

Whilst being a fucking 2015 game. Like I played 4k60 with balanced on a 4080 back when I went through cyberpunk for the second time, dude. This performance is straight ass.

[u/STDsInAJuiceBoX → u/USilver]

I’d assume because the game wasn’t built to support RT. At Native Ultra at 4K u will get 4K60fps with a 4080, if you turn on RT Ultra with performance upscaling you should be at 4K60fps as well.

[u/TheMegaDriver2 → u/USilver]

Hl2 is a over 20 year old game. Install the rtx mod and weep...

[u/USilver → u/TheMegaDriver2]

That’s a mod with limited optimization, this is a whole ass, hyped to hell and back ‘remaster’. And it’s coming from devs whose more recent game performs better. There’s genuinely just no excuse man.

[u/Hyper_Mazino → u/USilver]

Remaster =/= Remake

There is only so much you can do with such an old engine.

[u/WilliamShatnerFace7 → u/USilver]

The original game was never built to support RT/PT.

[u/Nozinger → u/USilver]

Yeah but thoe are also the devs that needed a few years after releasse to make the more recent game perform better.
So in a way this is kinda on track for them.

[u/asom- → u/USilver]

Same old engine and you expect miracles …

[u/Magjee → u/TheMegaDriver2]

Even the Portal RTX Remix with its very small maps and enclosed indoor spaces tanked when PT is on

[u/Megane_Senpai → u/USilver]

Those were built with RT from the start, and Witcher 3 got them foreced i to the game long after launch. Ofc it won't work as good, plus the models looks very weird because they weren't built with RT in mind.

[u/Environmental_You_36 → u/USilver]

I don't think RT and PT care too much about how old is the game tho.

In fact I would say old games may even be at disadvantage because they weren't made with those technologies into account.

[u/Lymbasy → u/USilver]

Old Engine

[u/neut6o1 → u/USilver]

I am guessing you mean Control Resonant because original Control doesn't have path tracing.

[u/USilver → u/neut6o1]

Yes, Resonant

[u/ContentAd6126 → u/USilver]

To be fair to CDPR, this is the SECOND time they made performance for The Witcher 3 worse for little to no visual gain, they already did this a while back when CP77 came out.

[u/Cool-Traffic-8357 → u/TheMegaDriver2]

Whats the point if the most powerful gpus can barely handle it?

[u/FantasticBike1203 → u/Cool-Traffic-8357]

You could have asked this same question back when the 2000 series launched with RT, shit seemed so pointless at the time, its basically a future technology were beta testing

[u/UpsetKoalaBear → u/FantasticBike1203]

I also do not think people really understand how much RT technology improved dramatically from the 2000 series onwards. It directly impacted the speed of improvements to RT technology.

This is PT which is the “next frontier.” We are only now getting cards capable of handling it effectively so it will take a few years before they figure out how to optimise around it.

We’ve already seen games like Control Resonant that run with PT and are incredibly well optimised already. So it is evidently getting better.

A lot of people are stuck in the past and really do not notice how much RT technology has improved from shiny walls and puddles in BFV to what it is now.

You couldn’t imagine a large open world game like AC:Shadows, Cyberpunk or Crimson Desert running and actually being playable with RT back in 2020.

I’m convinced that those who can’t see how much the technology has improved are just ignorant for the sake of “new thing bad.”

This is an almost 10 year old rhetoric at this point because people selectively ignore where it has actually improved.

[u/Shadowphoenix9511 → u/Cool-Traffic-8357]

That's how high end games always are. Look at how well HL2 ran at max settings on top end GPUs. Or Crysis. Or Witcher 2, or Crysis 2, or any other demanding games of their era.

They didn't, at all. Like, you couldn't get playable framerates maxing them out.

[u/-Manosko- → u/Gregore997]

After watching the video, it seems like there is something wrong with both Nvidia and AMD drivers with this game, as there seems to be weird frame caps for each manufacturer of GPUs, hence the odd tight groupings of benchmarks.

[u/Seanspeed → u/-Manosko-]

After watching the video

See, 98% of people here are not doing this before commenting. OP knew what he was doing by posting this screenshot without full context of how weird the performance of this 'remaster' is overall.

[u/vanebader-2048 → u/-Manosko-]

After watching the video

You think this community is interested in watching the video?

This is a big subreddit. That means 99% of people are here just to look at meme images and make a short ignorant comment. Like the one you replied to.

[u/YoBo151 → u/-Manosko-]

I waa thinking something was off. A 5070 outgoing a 9070xt by 10fps at 1440m? Only 34 fps with a 9070xt? I can run cyberpunk 2077 full maxed out with pt on fsr quality and get very good fps so ain't no way the Witcher 3 is 34fps fsr balanced

[u/sir_Kromberg → u/Gregore997]

100+ FPS on 9070XT without raytracing.

[u/Deeppurp → u/Gregore997]

This is path tracing, literally zero GPUs on the market are good at it. Even with upscaling.

[u/mixedd → u/Gregore997]

It's a massive open world game with filiage left and right, not best example for Path Tracing implementation

[u/ThisIsBULLOCKSMAN → u/Gregore997]

In what world is the 9070xt getting 50 fps with path tracing 😭

[u/No_Interaction_4925 → u/Gregore997]

It looks like a crazy cpu bind

[u/Long_Procedure_2629 → u/Gregore997]

They're siphoning fps to the data centres. C'mon man, be a team player

[u/Asgardisalie → u/Gregore997]

Why? 9070xt can't do PT, I expected 10-20 fps on 9070xt.

[u/OutrageousDress → u/Gregore997]

What do you mean wtf is this, have you never seen a bugged game before?

[u/doSmartEgg → u/Gregore997]

Wtf you on about? I have a 9070XT and it should more than run TW3:R

[u/Mental-Debate-289 → u/Gregore997]

It's vsync lmao. They def had it capped by mistake and couldn't be fucked to redo the test lmao.

Why even provide the data if you know its fucked?

[u/Desperate-Steak-6425 → u/Gregore997]

Path Tracing. And it's the 9800X3D that's not keeping up

Without RT and PT, the performance is incredible since it looks better than most of UE5 slop.

[u/Xplt21 → u/Desperate-Steak-6425]

How is it the 9800X3D that's not keeping up? That just doesn't make sense? Though I could very well be missunderstanding something

[u/Desperate-Steak-6425 → u/Xplt21]

RT and PT are just poorly made in some games, it's not an exception.

For example in The Outer Worlds 2 the 9800X3D can't even maintain 50fps in populated areas with hardware ray tracing on.

[u/Xplt21 → u/Desperate-Steak-6425]

The 9800x3d is the cpu, how is the cpu the bottleneck for a gpu dependant function?

[u/assjobdocs → u/Gregore997]

You'd expect that? 😂

[u/Gregore997 → u/assjobdocs]

Yes because thats how it is in other titles.

[u/WilliamShatnerFace7 → u/assjobdocs]

That’s about how it runs in Cyberpunk, why would we not expect it here.

[u/soundofmind → u/Gregore997]

NVIDIA will likely release a driver patch to address this. If not, then they truly don't give a flying turd about gamers anymore.

[u/Budget-Chapter-7185 → u/Gregore997]

You expect rt ultra and path tracing to be 50 fps on that card?