Star Wars Battlefront PC Graphics Card Benchmark - 1080, 1440, 4K

**Benchmarking Star Wars Battlefront: A Guide to the Best Graphics Cards**

In this article, we will delve into the world of graphics cards and explore which ones are best suited for playing Star Wars Battlefront at high resolutions. We've conducted a thorough benchmarking test to compare various graphics cards, including SLI configurations, NVIDIA and AMD options, and analyze their performance in detail.

**The Power of SLI: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti**

One of the most powerful graphics cards we tested was the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti, paired with another GTX 980 Ti for an SLI configuration. This combination delivered average frame rates of 120 FPS at 1440p and 66 FPS at 1% and 55 FPS at 0.1%. While this is incredibly fast, the low frame rates are a significant concern. When compared to other graphics cards, the SLI setup shows a large disparity in performance, with dips and stuttering becoming more noticeable. The single GTX 980 Ti from MSI Seahawk performs well, pushing 83 FPS average at 1440p, but still retains tight timings for 1% and 0.1% lows.

**AMD's R9 390x: A Competitive Option**

Another impressive performer in our benchmark was the AMD Radeon R9 390x. In Battlefront, this card delivered around 70 FPS at 1440p Ultra, making it a competitive option in this game. When compared to NVIDIA's GTX 970, currently priced at $320, the R9 390x is a great value for those looking to play Star Wars Battlefront at high resolutions without breaking the bank.

**1080p Benchmarks: A Wide Range of Options**

At 1080p, we saw a much wider range of graphics cards on our benchmark chart. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB card was one of the most popular options, but it struggled to maintain Ultra settings, especially when compared to its 2 GB counterpart. Other cards like the R9 285 and GTX 770 also showed their limitations in this resolution.

**A Note on VRAM Consumption**

We noticed that games like Star Wars Battlefront are capable of consuming a significant amount of video RAM, with around 4 GB consumed at 1440p Ultra. This is especially true when playing complex scenes, which will require even more system RAM. We'll be testing this further in our upcoming analysis to provide a more comprehensive understanding of VRAM consumption.

**The Best Graphics Cards for Star Wars Battlefront**

Based on our benchmarking test, we've identified the best graphics cards for Star Wars Battlefront at various resolutions. For 1440p and above, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti SLI configuration is still one of the top performers. At 1080p, AMD's Radeon R9 390x offers a great balance of performance and price.

For those looking to play Star Wars Battlefront on lower settings, the GTX 960 4 GB and older cards like the GTX 750 Ti or R9270x can still provide smooth gameplay at high resolutions. However, these cards will require users to drop down their graphics settings to maintain a high baseline during intense gameplay.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone this is Steve from Gamers nexus.net and what you're looking at is the Benchmark results video for our recent Star Wars Battlefront open Beta benchmark test so we have another video on the channel already showcasing the games really quite impressive Graphics at maximum settings with a 4K resolution using a highend 980 TI that video is already up if you want to see The Benchmark course we used see the game's Graphics capabilities and listen to me talk talk about our test methodology in very brief form then go check out that video for this one this accompanies the article Linked In the description below which explores the performance of the video cards at various resolutions from 4K to 1440 to 1080 and we also look at ultra high and medium graphic settings and how they impact the various devices on bench do note that some of our AMD devices are now getting a bit aged like the 290x and 285 they are technically last generation but we do have a 390x on hand and we're able to test that with these benches for an explanation of the games settings check the article links in the description below I talk about what each of them does what it means but here's a few screenshots of the game settings as they stand in the open Beta And as for performance let's just start looking at that right now so first of all here's the 4K chart as always big disclaimer this game is in beta that means that there will be Maps there will be assets sets Vehicles game modes to which we are not presently exposed so FPS could change when the full game comes out and those items are launched alongside it they could be more intensive they could be less intensive we'll just have to revisit it once the game's out back to the charts 4K you can see that basically SLI 980 TI are required to get 60 FPS so if you want 60 FPS which for a fast-paced shooter like Battlefront you probably do want as close to that as possible if not more then it is going to require some kind of multi-gpu setup either Crossfire or SLI even the high-end Seahawk 980 TI which is a liquid cooled card with a boost of 1291 megahertz stock we're still sitting dead at 44 FPS it certainly wasn't a bad experience but as the game sort of hits the dips where explosions and things like that occur you do see that card struggle to a point where would probably want to drop down to 1440 if I were gaming with it and here are those 1440 charts so again the SLI 980ti combo quite obviously at the top and for good reason it's two video cards that's at about 120 FPS average but has pretty bad lows at 66 FPS for 1% and 55 FPS for 0.1% now in comparison to the other cards these don't look that bad but when you compare against the average which is what you want to do there's a large 2x disparity between the average with SLI and the lows whereas the other cards have pretty tight timings and that disparity we've seen it before it's just it happens with multi-gpu setups and the Gap being that large means that the dips and Frames will be more noticeable as a player so although the 1% and 0.1% lows are still effectively 60 FPS which is what we want the size of the dip from 117 to those numbers is noticeable one playe so you get a bit of stuttering or tearing or some other perceived negative impact resultant of this the single gtx980 TI the MSI Seahawk pushes 83 FPS average and that's definitely playable and it retains it really tight timings for 1% and 0.1% lows another Plus for the card the R9 390x again performs pretty impressively well with Battlefront and that's because this game as we learned throughout the process of this Benchmark seems to be fairly optimized so the 390x gets about 70 FPS at 1440 Ultra and at $400 that's a very competitive buy for Battlefront uh matched up against something like the gtx970 currently $320 and that would be about your cut off the 970 can just barely handle 1440 at Ultra you would probably realistically be dropping a few of the settings down to high just to make sure you're retaining a a high Baseline during the dips when gameplay gets intense and obviously again this cut off point is a little bit dangerous if you're buying a card right now because we haven't seen the rest of the game yet so we don't know how that will change going forward but I will certainly update this guide with a new video Once once we're at that point 1080 the one that most people probably want to see here shows the most populated chart and it ranges all the way down to the GTX 770 R9 285 and gtx960 in terms of playable cards the r9270x a former Mainstay which has been replaced by the r7370 in effect it's not a perfect replacement but it's about that and the GTX 950 both of those cards or all three of those if you include the r7370 struggle to retain Ultra at 1080p the gtx960 4 GB card did not yield noteworthy gains over the 2 GB alternative when we tested on this map this resolution these settings we have seen games where 4 gbes impacts performance and have a complete video on that just search the channel for 4 gbt versus 2 gbt and you'll find that but for this game didn't really see an impact I did look at vram consumption it wasn't scientific it wasn't complete we are doing both of those things for vram consumption analysis very soon but for a brief top level sort of thrown together analysis we saw about 4 GB of vram consumed at 4K and Ultra so the game is capable of eating quite a lot of video Ram with 2 GB of system Ram consumed and this was after only a 10-minute test run on a low population single player map so these numbers will or should at least inflate as you to play more complex scenes and that's something that we're testing in the immediate future so for the 1080 benchmarks you can play on pretty much anything you need to drop down to high for the gtx950 the r9270x or similar cards and need to drop down to medium for the GTX 750 Ti or similar cards the 265 things like that would be best on medium so that is The Benchmark for Star Wars Battlefront as we conducted it tonight check out the article Linked In the description below for the full details for the cards that we think are the best graphics cards to buy for Battlefront as it stands today in this Benchmark and let me know if you have questions if you like this content if this helps you if it interests you please check out our patreon page linked in the post Roll video and any support we get there has been a huge help in ensuring that we're able to remain independent in our endeavors to do all of this testing and stay up live literally all hours of the night to uh to put together a fun guide with a fun game so check all that out I will see you all next timehey everyone this is Steve from Gamers nexus.net and what you're looking at is the Benchmark results video for our recent Star Wars Battlefront open Beta benchmark test so we have another video on the channel already showcasing the games really quite impressive Graphics at maximum settings with a 4K resolution using a highend 980 TI that video is already up if you want to see The Benchmark course we used see the game's Graphics capabilities and listen to me talk talk about our test methodology in very brief form then go check out that video for this one this accompanies the article Linked In the description below which explores the performance of the video cards at various resolutions from 4K to 1440 to 1080 and we also look at ultra high and medium graphic settings and how they impact the various devices on bench do note that some of our AMD devices are now getting a bit aged like the 290x and 285 they are technically last generation but we do have a 390x on hand and we're able to test that with these benches for an explanation of the games settings check the article links in the description below I talk about what each of them does what it means but here's a few screenshots of the game settings as they stand in the open Beta And as for performance let's just start looking at that right now so first of all here's the 4K chart as always big disclaimer this game is in beta that means that there will be Maps there will be assets sets Vehicles game modes to which we are not presently exposed so FPS could change when the full game comes out and those items are launched alongside it they could be more intensive they could be less intensive we'll just have to revisit it once the game's out back to the charts 4K you can see that basically SLI 980 TI are required to get 60 FPS so if you want 60 FPS which for a fast-paced shooter like Battlefront you probably do want as close to that as possible if not more then it is going to require some kind of multi-gpu setup either Crossfire or SLI even the high-end Seahawk 980 TI which is a liquid cooled card with a boost of 1291 megahertz stock we're still sitting dead at 44 FPS it certainly wasn't a bad experience but as the game sort of hits the dips where explosions and things like that occur you do see that card struggle to a point where would probably want to drop down to 1440 if I were gaming with it and here are those 1440 charts so again the SLI 980ti combo quite obviously at the top and for good reason it's two video cards that's at about 120 FPS average but has pretty bad lows at 66 FPS for 1% and 55 FPS for 0.1% now in comparison to the other cards these don't look that bad but when you compare against the average which is what you want to do there's a large 2x disparity between the average with SLI and the lows whereas the other cards have pretty tight timings and that disparity we've seen it before it's just it happens with multi-gpu setups and the Gap being that large means that the dips and Frames will be more noticeable as a player so although the 1% and 0.1% lows are still effectively 60 FPS which is what we want the size of the dip from 117 to those numbers is noticeable one playe so you get a bit of stuttering or tearing or some other perceived negative impact resultant of this the single gtx980 TI the MSI Seahawk pushes 83 FPS average and that's definitely playable and it retains it really tight timings for 1% and 0.1% lows another Plus for the card the R9 390x again performs pretty impressively well with Battlefront and that's because this game as we learned throughout the process of this Benchmark seems to be fairly optimized so the 390x gets about 70 FPS at 1440 Ultra and at $400 that's a very competitive buy for Battlefront uh matched up against something like the gtx970 currently $320 and that would be about your cut off the 970 can just barely handle 1440 at Ultra you would probably realistically be dropping a few of the settings down to high just to make sure you're retaining a a high Baseline during the dips when gameplay gets intense and obviously again this cut off point is a little bit dangerous if you're buying a card right now because we haven't seen the rest of the game yet so we don't know how that will change going forward but I will certainly update this guide with a new video Once once we're at that point 1080 the one that most people probably want to see here shows the most populated chart and it ranges all the way down to the GTX 770 R9 285 and gtx960 in terms of playable cards the r9270x a former Mainstay which has been replaced by the r7370 in effect it's not a perfect replacement but it's about that and the GTX 950 both of those cards or all three of those if you include the r7370 struggle to retain Ultra at 1080p the gtx960 4 GB card did not yield noteworthy gains over the 2 GB alternative when we tested on this map this resolution these settings we have seen games where 4 gbes impacts performance and have a complete video on that just search the channel for 4 gbt versus 2 gbt and you'll find that but for this game didn't really see an impact I did look at vram consumption it wasn't scientific it wasn't complete we are doing both of those things for vram consumption analysis very soon but for a brief top level sort of thrown together analysis we saw about 4 GB of vram consumed at 4K and Ultra so the game is capable of eating quite a lot of video Ram with 2 GB of system Ram consumed and this was after only a 10-minute test run on a low population single player map so these numbers will or should at least inflate as you to play more complex scenes and that's something that we're testing in the immediate future so for the 1080 benchmarks you can play on pretty much anything you need to drop down to high for the gtx950 the r9270x or similar cards and need to drop down to medium for the GTX 750 Ti or similar cards the 265 things like that would be best on medium so that is The Benchmark for Star Wars Battlefront as we conducted it tonight check out the article Linked In the description below for the full details for the cards that we think are the best graphics cards to buy for Battlefront as it stands today in this Benchmark and let me know if you have questions if you like this content if this helps you if it interests you please check out our patreon page linked in the post Roll video and any support we get there has been a huge help in ensuring that we're able to remain independent in our endeavors to do all of this testing and stay up live literally all hours of the night to uh to put together a fun guide with a fun game so check all that out I will see you all next time\n"