VRAM and memory consumption is also looked at loosely below, hopefully establishing a baseline for the best video cards for Fallout 4 on PC.īecause mod tools don't yet exist – and certainly no mods did during our pre-release testing – we are not accounting for the inevitable performance hit created by future graphics mods.
The below Fallout 4 PC benchmark tests FPS performance across nVidia and AMD GPUs, including the GTX 750 Ti, 960, 970, 270X, 285, 390X, and many more. This post looks exclusively and in depth at Fallout 4's graphics settings and performance on PC. Our Fallout 4 game review & gameplay analysis is live on the homepage already, if that's what you're looking for. It helps that the modding community is able to fill gaps in Bethesda's code or build entirely new games from the strong foundation set forth by the veteran RPG team.
It's got a bigger number at the end.īethesda has one of the longest development life cycles in the industry, but the company's games are also among – arguably – the longest lasting, thanks to the undying efforts of modders. A dozen hours of Black Ops 3 testing completed and we're moving to the next sequentially-incremented video game: Fallout 4.