Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II arrived just yesterday and the first performance tests of the long-awaited game have already started to appear. It uses Unreal Engine 5 and its requirements pointed out ways to become one of the most challenging titles of its generation, which it finally came to fruition, as without taking ray tracing into account It’s even more challenging than Alan Wake 2.

TechPowerUp shared a fairly complete performance test in which it also analyzed graphics memory consumption, although it only used a GeForce RTX 4090. This is important because current games They usually fill up more graphics memory than they need They really have a lot at their disposal.

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II graphics memory consumption oscillates between 7.8GB in low quality 900p and 10.81GB in 4K and high quality, a small difference between the two configurations that confirms what I told you that this title tends to fill more graphics memory than it actually uses. This is clear when we see the good performance it has with graphics cards with only 8 GB of graphics memory.

Graphics memory consumption when frame generation (DLSS 3) is enabled it can reach 12.39GB because of the buffer it creates this technology works with all the temporal and spatial information you need, as well as motion vectors, which are key to creating high-quality images.

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II is very challenging

So much so that even in 1080p resolution and with maximum quality we can only approach 60 FPS with GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. The Radeon RX 7700 XT achieves 62.2 FPS and with the GeForce RTX 4070 we achieve an average of 70 FPS. The GeForce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600 XT average only 43.1 and 44.2 FPS, respectively.

In 1440p resolution and with the maximum quality we need GeForce RTX 3090 Ti or Radeon RX 7900 XT will exceed 60 FPS. With the GeForce RTX 4070 we stay at 49.4 FPS and with the Radeon RX 6800 XT the average performance is 48.8 FPS. Click on the gallery to expand to see the graphic better.

In 4K no graphics card is able to achieve a stable 60 FPS, the closest is the GeForce RTX 4090, which reaches 57.1 FPS. Starting with GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER or Radeon RX 7900 XT we have more than 30 stable FPS. At this resolution, there is a significant performance difference between the GeForce RTX 4090 and the rest.

They don’t include performance tests with NVIDIA DLSS 3, and it’s a shame, because in such a demanding game, it’s clear that this technology It will make a big difference. frame rate improvement. Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II is not compatible with AMD FSR 3, although we cannot rule out that support will arrive in time.