Nvidia RTX 4090 Founders Edition Review

Far Cry 6 is a 2021 action-adventure first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft Toronto and published by Ubisoft. It is the sixth main instalment in the Far Cry series and the successor to 2018's Far Cry 5. The game was released on October 7, 2021, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Stadia, and Amazon Luna. (Wikipedia).

Engine: Dunia Engine. We test using the Ultra preset, HD Textures enabled, DX12 API.

Far Cry 6 is next and even at 1440p, we see clear signs of CPU bottlenecking in this title. We specifically test actual gameplay, rather than using the built-in benchmark which is typically less GPU-bound, but even so, the RTX 4090 is less than 10% faster than the 3090 Ti, and basically level with the RX 6950 XT.

Stepping up to 4K clearly helps and puts things back in the 4090's favour, but scaling is still towards the lower-end, with a 45% boost over the RTX 3090 Ti. It's certainly not to be sniffed at, but it's not as impressive as something like Cyberpunk 2077.

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