A GeForce GT 710 struggling with Horizon Zero Dawn, an agony up to 72p resolution

The PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn, although it is a conversion from Playstation 4 (moreover not among the best at the debut), certainly not born to run well on a GeForce GT 710, a start video card 2016 (Kepler architecture) and already at that time low-end: it cost between 30 and 40 dollars.

If you have any doubts, watch the following video published by the zWORMz Gaming channel in which the ancient GPU was put to the test with the game of Guerrilla Games. In addition to demonstrating the unplayability of the title with the GeForce GT 710, Youtuber Kryzzp highlighted the ability of the rendering engine of support “very low” resolutions, in this case up to an unlikely 128 x 72 pixels.

Based on GK208 GPU produced at 28 nanometers and equipped with 192 CUDA cores supported by 2 GB of DDR3 memory on 64-bit bus, the card has 2-3 fps at 1080p with maximum details, to gain another 2-3 by minimizing detail settings. Going to 720p returned an average of 8 fps and to 360p it rises to a still embarrassing value of 12 fps. The 256 x 144 pixel resolution isn’t much help either, with an average frame rate of around 20 fps. The situation doesn’t improve too much at 128 x 72 pixels.

The graphics of course a cluster of colored squares that recalls the good old days and that make Minecraft appear to the limits of photorealism. The resolution 128 x 72 pixels lower than that of the Game Boy Advance (240 x 160 pixels) and even that of a TI-84 Plus CE-T graphing calculator, equipped with a 2.8-inch screen with 320 x 240 pixels resolution.

A nice experiment, of the “you can and therefore I do” type, which gives us a little idea of ​​the evolution of the graphics sector over the years, even at the cost of torturing a pearl of the last generation. And now sorry, after seeing the video let’s go and tear our eyes out!