Metro Exodus Retested – More Cards, More RT, More DLSS!

Ray Tracing

OK, so there aren’t as many GPUs on this chart. Of course, only the Nvidia RTX cards can even think about attempting this for now. When it comes to 4K gaming, well, I hope you like cinematic frame rates, because that’s what you’ll get. Are the GPUs to blame? Nope, this game is just a graphical monster to render. At 1440p, the RTX 2080 and Ti did just fine though, better than I though, and a step up from when the game launched.

At 1080p, depending how focused you are on that 60 FPS figure, even the RTX 2060 did a fine job. I would have expected more than 11 FPS between the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti though, but hey-ho.

DLSS

Now, this is a tricky one, as even fewer cards run this correctly. At 1080p, the RTX 2080 Ti won’t do DLSS, nor will the RTX 2080. However, at 4K, the RTX 2060 won’t work, doh!

Regardless, we see some healthy improvements throughout. RTX 2080 Ti moved up from 35.8 to 49.3 FPS at 4K; almost 15 FPS! It was also enough to see both the RTX 2080 and RTX 2070 break past the 60 FPS mark at 1440p, which is a welcome boost indeed.

The 1080p performance improvements are good, but DLSS at such a low resolution isn’t ideal, I’d rather use a lower GPU profile than do so; or not use Ray Tracing and DLSS at all.