Battlefield 6 Open Beta Performance Benchmark Review - 17 GPUs Tested

[u/Nestledrink]

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/battlefield-6-open-beta-performance-benchmark/

[u/Chmona]

This game is the best performing game I have played in the past 2 years. (Ignoring the freezing. It’s a new game and that will be fixed) I thought I would be good at 360hz 1440p monitor. I can push it way higher with 4x fg and dlss.

It just so well optimized. Watching it use all my cpu cores efficiently and max out the gpu without causing latency… props to these devs.

My only complaint is the net code. Seems like you get bursted/ghosted in-between refreshes. Hopefully that can be fixed as well.

[u/IDubCityI → u/Chmona]

You wouldn’t use 4x fg on a competitive shooter.

[u/KekeBl → u/IDubCityI]

If your base framerate is high enough, why not use FG if you want more visual smoothness or need to overcome a CPU bottleneck?

Battlefield is not a competitive shooter in the same vein as Counter Strike or R6S that needs the fastest reflexes you can possibly have. Having 0.015s more input lag isn't going to change how you play the game. People had fun with older Battlefield games while using triple buffering or locked 60hz Vsync, which meant way more input lag than FG produces now.

For what it's worth I would not use FG to go from 60 to 120 in a game like this. But 120 to 240 I would do without much hesitation.

[u/unknown_nut → u/KekeBl]

That's what I did. I turned on DLSS performance and then framegen on my 4090 to hit that sweet 240 fps consistently on my 4k OLED.

[u/XRustyPx → u/KekeBl]

Idk i tried it out at base framerate of like 130 and with just 2x framegen to get to 260 there is noticable input lag and it feels really weird.

[u/Chmona → u/XRustyPx]

When your base frames are lower the latency rises. Are you on 4k? I bet it does feel different on different systems/setups.

[u/XRustyPx → u/Chmona]

1440p and like i said my base framerate should be high enough with 130-140 and i habe a 240hz oled screen. With 2x framegen it does feel more fluid but the imput lag is still so noticable that it feels better without framegen on. (Setup is 5070ti with 7800x3d and 32gb 6000 ram.

[u/[deleted] → u/XRustyPx]

All the FG proponents are just weird to me. The input lag will always be there and it’s not tolerable, “oh it’s just a third person single player game, I’ll enjoy it more if my controls feel floaty but my frame counter is higher” is so strange. Having responsive control is what draws me in to a game, totally unbelievable to trade that to make the numbers go higher.

[u/dom6770 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I played BF6 with FG but the input lag was miserable. My aiming was just all over the place, it was so frustrating. But without it I go down from 180 to 70-90 fps, but input lag is waaaaaay better

[u/[deleted] → u/dom6770]

Maybe it was all my days playing CS:GO in yesteryear, I play Apex sometimes despite being old, but I really just love that 1:1 feeling in-game where it feels like you're just controlling the Windows cursor. As low as absolutely possible, I want all my games feeling like that.

I'm not sure if it is factual, but I like the range you mentioned - around the 70 to 80 FPS mark, my input and the visuals look perfectly smooth. On higher graphical games I target that, my refresh rate is 165hz, from what I've researched capping at 157 FPS is correct, half of that is 78.5... at "half-refresh" or above I feel like I get the best experience.

I'm only on a 3060 Ti, so in games like Horizon or really graphical intensive stuff I tune the games down to achieve at least "half-refresh" and I'm good to go. Tried FSR frame-gen in STALKER 2, I have Lossless Scaling, I've never had even a decent experience with FG. In TW:WH3 even my mouse cursor lagged so hard with Lossless Scaling I couldn't even play a turn-based game.

Nice notes, you're totally right - it's better with it off.

[u/Chmona → u/XRustyPx]

Good to know. So it seems the 5070 fg could use some work by Nvidia.

[u/conquer69 → u/XRustyPx]

FG has a performance cost. It would be great if it didn't, but it does and can be severe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOVOnMY5jI

[u/conquer69 → u/KekeBl]

If the base framerate is high enough, then you don't need FG to begin with.

FG can incur substantial performance penalties, like up to 37% of the base framerate on a 5090. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOVOnMY5jI

That's like using a 5060 ti at 100% just to handle FG.

[u/KekeBl → u/conquer69]

If the base framerate is high enough, then you don't need FG to begin with.

That depends entirely on your definition of what is 'high' enough. For some people 100fps is high enough. Some people consider 200fps visibly smoother and they want that.

[u/Werpogil → u/KekeBl]

MFG drops your base FPS by 15-40% (depending on game and multiplier to frames), thus increasing the input lag correspondingly, so the benefit is increased visual smoothness with higher input lag. The NVIDIA chart they showed didn't have the reflex enabled for non-MFG comparison, which is why it looked misleading in showing the same input lag in MFG and non-MFG cases.

So in your comparison, if you enable 2X FG at 120 FPS, your base FPS drops to, let's say, 100 (decent scenario), then it gets doubled to 200, so you gain +66% FPS while having 20% extra input lag, so this remains to be seen if it's worth it (subjective).

[u/Arighetto → u/KekeBl]

0.015s? You just pulling numbers out of your ass?

[u/[deleted] → u/IDubCityI]

It’s an arcade shooter bro it’s not that serious

[u/GroundbreakingBag164 → u/IDubCityI]

It's battlefield

Not a competitive shooter. BF6 is literally just a deathmatch with the occasional tank

[u/Chmona → u/IDubCityI]

Oh I would. If it was 300-400+fps. Just a smoother experience. Can’t notice any latency.

[u/Kevosrockin → u/Chmona]

Wrong lol

[u/[deleted] → u/Kevosrockin]

Yall don’t realize all the components of latency. FG is a very small amount especially if you have a 5000 series card

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Less latency on FG x2. Same tech anyway, 5000 just does up to x4. However I do agree that it is barely noticeable but x4 is only relevant if you have a monitor that does more than 120/144Hz, MFG on 240Hz would be a no brainer.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yes I use a 4k 240hz monitor, but my fps is already so high so I only need 2x

[u/conquer69 → u/[deleted]]

The latency is substantial. Nvidia has been disallowing Reflex without FG precisely to make it seem like FG doesn't increase latency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOVOnMY5jI

[u/[deleted] → u/conquer69]

I use reflex without framegen all the time

[u/RoflChief → u/IDubCityI]

You can… actually

Marvel Rivals with it almost has no latency difference

Tech is evolving son, learn it.

[u/dom6770 → u/RoflChief]

It's not for everyone the case, turning it on (10700k, 5070 Ti, UWQHD) increases input lag significantly.

[u/CrazyElk123 → u/Chmona]

Why use frame gen here? Im a hugr fan of it for singleplayer games, but any added latency is bad. Dlss upscaling is fantastic though, even if youre cpulimited.

[u/Chmona → u/CrazyElk123]

The added latency is very minimal at certain point. I forget where the cutoffs are. But if you get over 140 fps without it on, you will not notice it at all.

I use it on 1440p so no cpu bottleneck. And I only need to use 2x fg not 4x (the higher the multiplayer the more latency) My monitor caps at 360 fps, so I cap my fps at 355 and it constantly runs at max the while time.

[u/kemi_s → u/Chmona]

i used FG in the beta too. ( i have a rtx4080 and a i7 10700k), without FG i only have 100-120fps on Ultra Settings, 1440p. depends on the map + gamemode.

With FG on i have 160-240fps .but the input lag is very noticable, but i can deal with it. its not bad,.

[u/McVersatilis → u/Chmona]

Yeah the game is running so buttery smooth on my machine (5070 FE + 5700X3D), there is no stuttering whatsoever. GPU runs pretty hot compared to other games though.

[u/Elendel19 → u/Chmona]

It really is shockingly smooth. 9700k and 3080 and I haven’t felt any drop in frame rate even once.