Atomfall runs way better on Nvidia, according to these new GPU benchmarks
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Atomfall has finally been released, after a few days of early access for those who bought the Deluxe Edition. The game currently holds ‘Mostly Positive’ reviews on Steam and has generally seen positive reception from reviewers. Optimization is a hot topic for PC games, and fans make it known when performance isn’t up to scratch. Luckily, Atomfall does it right, and we were pleasantly surprised by how it ran when we tested it on Steam Deck.
And now, for desktop PC users, a wide range of benchmarks are being posted online to give us an excellent guide to how it will perform on your hardware. Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPU benchmarks have been posted online, and they tell us that Team Green (Nvidia) comes out on top. It can even run at 8K native (though you’ll want a 5090 for this).
Atomfall tested on Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs
Thanks to an extensive amount of testing from German outlet ComputerBase, we can get a close look at the performance of Atomfall on PC across a wide range of graphics cards. Sadly, there are no 1080p benchmarks to reference, so we’re looking at 1440p and up. Focusing on 2,560 x 1,440 (16:9, 1440p), we can see that Nvidia is well ahead of the competition. All tests are run at native resolution on the Ultra preset.
In contrast to recent Assassin’s Creed Shadows benchmarks showing AMD pulling ahead, it is clear that Atomfall is better optimized on Nvidia GPUs. AMD’s new RDNA 4 cards also seem to suffer, with the RX 9070 XT 13% slower than the flagship RDNA 3 7900 XTX and nearly 18% slower than Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti at 2,560 x 1,440, the latter of which is a card the 9070 XT hopes to go toe-to-toe with. Likewise, the RX 9070 falls behind the RTX 5070 by about 10%.
- GPU: GB205-300
- CUDA Cores: 6,144
- VRAM: 12GB GDDR7
- Memory Bus Width: 192-bit
- Base Clock Speed: 2.33GHz
- Boost Clock Speed: 2.51GHz
At 4K, the RTX 5090 offers nearly 30% better performance than the 4090, this gap reduces to around 19% at 1440p, which says to us that the 32GB of VRAM in Nvidia’s latest flagship is being well utilized.
As for Intel, the two cards tested (Intel Arc B580 and Arc A770) are generally better suited for 1080p, but these cards still manage around 60 FPS when maxed out at 1440p. They both offer a decent performance upgrade over the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 from Nvidia and AMD, respectively.
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