Destiny 2 in the benchmark: 12 Games PC requirements max settings – tested the Free 2 Play game Destiny 2 in the benchmark with 29 graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia and 5 graphics units (iGPUs) integrated in CPUs. Both high-end as well as entry-level and older models take part in the comparison. The article is the fifth in a twelve-part benchmark test series.
A series of articles with twelve games
In the standard test course for graphics cards, processors and even gaming notebooks, BitcoinMinersHashrate usually focuses on AAA games. In addition to their high popularity and modern technology, there is another reason for this: They generally allow comparable results over a long period of time. But even if the number of players is high, the highest have other titles.
We are talking about games that focus exclusively on multiplayer and whose goal is to reach as many players as possible. Battle royale shooters like Fortnite or PUBG as well as e-sports heavyweights like League of Legends or Counter-Strike are among them. Technically, they are usually designed to be simpler than the AAA offshoots and harder to benchmark consistently due to continuously provided updates. Nevertheless, millions of players around the world keep asking themselves: How fast is or would GPU XYZ be in this game? BitcoinMinersHashrate will now look into this question again in a twelve-part series of articles.
In all twelve games, 29 graphics cards and 5 GPUs integrated in processors in two different quality settings will have to endure benchmarks. From GeForce RTX 2080 Ti to Radeon RX 5700 XT and GeForce GTX 1650 as well as older representatives such as the Radeon R9 390, numerous price, performance and age groups are represented.
So that the overview is not lost, each game gets its own article. The following titles are on our agenda, the linked ones have already been tested:
Bungie’s Destiny 2 is the fifth game to face the test. The multiplayer shooter, which is now available as a free 2-play title – the extensions Forsaken and Shadowkeep must still be purchased separately – is currently in its ninth season, which will run until March 9th. The remaining seven articles will appear in the course of the next few weeks, there is no fixed rhythm.
Destiny 2: The first game in the benchmark
Bungie’s free 2 play game Destiny 2 was released on September 6, 2017. The title was initially only available on Blizzards Battle.net, but has now moved to Steam. A specially developed, nameless engine based on DirectX 11 is used as the technical framework.
The AMD and Nvidia graphics cards in the test
The 29 graphics cards are 13 3D accelerators from AMD and 16 from Nvidia. In addition, three APUs from AMD are represented and also two CPUs from Intel, each of which has to use the integrated graphics units for the benchmarks. In addition, there are tests with a very cheap CPU, each with an inexpensive Radeon or GeForce to show whether such a double team is worthwhile compared to a more expensive APU.
All GeForce and Radeon graphics cards adhere to the reference specifications, overclocked models for more performance do not take part in the comparison. How much faster they are can be seen in the many graphics card tests or the graphics card ranking on BitcoinMinersHashrate.
Driver and test system
Since several GPUs are taken into account in the numerous benchmarks, different drivers are used. Adrenaline 20.2.1 and GeForce 442.19 were used for the tests of Destiny 2. The 26.20.100.7755 is installed for the Intel GPUs. The driver settings are left on the standard, only special optimizations like the theoretically possible adjustment of the maximum tessellation level with AMD are switched off.
An AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and the MSI MEG X570 Godlike with the X570 chipset of the same name are used as the test system. 16 gigabytes of RAM (2 × 8 GB, DDR4-3200-14-14-14-32-1T, single rank) are available to the system. Windows 10 1909 with all updates is installed. MSI X570 Godlike (Image: MSI)
Different resolutions and quality settings
To compare so many graphics cards from different performance classes in one article requires different quality settings, because it is clear that those with a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti can drive completely different resolutions and levels of detail than one with a GeForce GTX 1050. Nevertheless, the need for benchmarks that compare all GPUs is great. This series of articles offers both.
Firstly, BitcoinMinersHashrate divided the test field into three different performance classes. Each of them receives its own resolution and level of detail, which is appropriate for its representatives. The fastest performance class includes the Radeon RX 5700 XT and the GeForce RTX 2070 Super. In the middle class, for example, the GeForce GTX 1060 and the Radeon RX 580 have to duel, while typical representatives for the slowest class are the Radeon RX 390 and the GeForce GTX 970.
In the highest performance class, the goal was to achieve around 50 to 60 FPS on a Radeon RX 5700 XT in 3,840 × 2,160. One class below were 50 to 60 FPS in 2,560 × 1,440 with a GeForce GTX 1060, while in the slowest class 50 to 60 FPS in 1,920 × 1,080 were to be achieved with a Ryzen 5 3400G.
An identical setting for all benchmarks
However, in order to be able to compare all products directly with one another, there is a fourth series of tests that come with a single comprehensive resolution and quality setting. It is a compromise that does not fully utilize high-end graphics cards and still completely overwhelms low-end APUs – but there is no other way to compare all 29 graphics cards and 5 iGPUs directly with each other.
The following quality settings were used for the four scenarios in Destiny 2.
A 25-second run on the planet Nessus near the Guardian Tomb is chosen as the test sequence. The scene is demanding. It shows a lot of vegetation and a very high farsightedness, but the frame rate can be even lower in battles.
Benchmarks in Full HD, WQHD and Ultra HD
Full HD with entry-level graphics cards & iGPUs
Destiny 2 places high demands on the GPU – even with the lowest graphics details. With a graphics unit integrated into the CPU, you don’t even have to think about Full HD – that looked different in Apex Legends, Fortnite, Rainbow Six: Siege and CS: GO. Even the Ryzen 5 3400G (Radeon Vega 11) only achieves 30 FPS with noise and noise. It’s kind of playable, but the fun is limited. Destiny 2 cannot be started at all with an Intel GPU. The game crashes silently and silently despite the latest driver.
To get close to the 60 FPS mark, Destiny 2 must have at least one Radeon RX 560. However, the GeForce GTX 1050 only manages 60 frames per second. The faster GeForce GTX 1050 Ti then reaches (almost) 60 frames per second in frame times.
Destiny 2 – 1,920 × 1,080
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
- AMD Radeon RX 560
- AMD Radeon RX 550
- Athlon 3000G + RX 550
- Nvidia GeForce GT 1030
- Athlon 3000G + GT 1030
- AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
- AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
- AMD Athlon 3000G
- Intel Core i3-9100
- Intel Pentium Gold G5400
WQHD with mid-range graphics cards
The situation in Destiny 2 is more relaxed with a graphics card from the old or new middle class. Although the graphics quality of 2,560 × 1,440 is significantly better with medium graphics details, many candidates achieve the 60 FPS. For AMD it must be at least a Radeon RX 580 or Radeon RX 5500 XT, for Nvidia a GeForce GTX 1060 or GeForce GTX 1650 Super. The old guard in the form of the GeForce GTX 970 and Radeon R9 390 also delivers playable values.
The benchmarks in WQHD also indicate that Destiny 2 cannot benefit from either the new Turing or the new RDNA architecture. Compared to classic AAA games, the old branches Pascal and GCN do better than usual – but there is one exception, as tests show below. Compared to GeForce against Radeon, the Nvidia products are consistently pretty much ahead in the Free 2 Play game.
Destiny 2 – 2,560 × 1,440
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
- AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
- Nvidia GTX 1660 Super
- Nvidia GTX 1650 Super
- AMD Radeon RX 590
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060
- AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
- AMD Radeon RX 580
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
- AMD Radeon R9 390
- AMD Radeon RX 570
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650
Ultra HD with high-end graphics cards
For 3,840 × 2,160 with high graphic details, it has to be much faster. 60 FPS are only available at AMD with a Radeon RX 5700 XT or a Radeon VII, with Nvidia from a GeForce RTX 2060 Super or a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti – the GeForce GTX 1080 also delivers playable values. Ultra HD also shows that Nvidia in Destiny 2 works faster than AMD and that the current graphics card generation offers no advantages over the old one. So the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, which is usually left behind, is faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 Super.
Destiny 2 – 3,840 x 2,160
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
- Nvidia RTX 2080 Super
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
- Nvidia RTX 2070 Super
- AMD Radeon VII
- AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
- Nvidia RTX 2060 Super
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
- AMD Radeon RX 5700
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060
- AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
- AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
Full HD benchmarks across all classes
The higher-level benchmarks in Full HD reveal a special feature: Apparently, all old AMD graphics cards of the GCN generation have problems using the shader units in 1,920 × 1,080. This is already evident in the Polaris models (Radeon RX 570, RX 580, RX 590), but Vega (Radeon RX Vega 56/64, Radeon VII) then obviously has enormous difficulties in some cases. AMD’s new RDNA architecture, on the other hand, has no problems with Full HD.
In the Ultra HD tests, the Radeon VII (Vega, GCN) was 5 percent faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT (Navi, RDNA). In Full HD, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is suddenly 12 percent faster than the Radeon VII, and the Radeon RX 5700 is also beaten by the “flagship”. There is no such behavior in the two Nvidia generations.
Destiny 2 – 1,920 × 1,080, all performance classes
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
- Nvidia RTX 2080 Super
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
- Nvidia RTX 2070 Super
- Nvidia RTX 2060 Super
- AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
- AMD Radeon RX 5700
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060
- AMD Radeon VII
- AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
- AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
- AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
- Nvidia GTX 1660 Super
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060
- Nvidia GTX 1650 Super
- AMD Radeon RX 590
- AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
- AMD Radeon RX 580
- AMD Radeon RX 570
- AMD Radeon R9 390
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
- AMD Radeon RX 560
- AMD Radeon RX 550
- Athlon 3000G + GT 1030
- Nvidia GeForce GT 1030
- AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
- Athlon 3000G + RX 550
- AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
- AMD Athlon 3000G
- Intel Core i3-9100
- Intel Pentium Gold G5400
closing Remarks
Destiny 2 does not need a high-end computer, but compared to the previously tested Counter-Strike: GO, the game by former Halo developer Bungie requires a significantly faster graphics card. With a graphics unit integrated into the CPU, even with a Ryzen 5 3400G, you don’t even have to try Destiny 2 in full HD.
Regardless of the resolution and graphics details, Destiny 2 runs better on Nvidia graphics cards than on AMD. It also shows that the new generations AMD RDNA and Nvidia Turing do not bring any advantages in the game in most cases. The only exception is Full HD, because the old AMD technology GCN then does not manage to utilize the 3D accelerator in the game – AMD’s current RDNA products no longer have any problems with this.
The following games have already been tested
Apart from Fortnite, the following content has appeared in the article series so far:
Part 6: Overwatch
The next game in this series will feature Blizzard’s team tactical shooter Overwatch. As always, the editors would be happy to receive feedback in the forum on the series of articles.
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