Avowed looks best on PC, and on Xbox the mode to pick is balanced.
It is the only version that keeps ray tracing without paying for it in resolution or frame rate. Testing was done at max settings with ray tracing on, and every 40 and 50 series card clears 60fps with DLSS 3. Of the 33 GPUs we measured on the Epic preset, an RTX 4090 delivers 95-112 FPS and an RX 7900 XTX 81-95.
Series X has three modes, but performance is expensive: it drops ray tracing and lowers lighting, texturing and draw distance even below Series S. Balanced keeps ray tracing and dynamic 2160p at 40fps, and it is what the analysis recommends.
Series S sits at dynamic 1080p and only gets quality and balanced. Balanced needs a 120Hz display and switches off ray-traced reflections while cutting lighting and draw distance, but it is still the mode to choose.
Balanced mode, on both Series X and Series S, only appears if you have a 120Hz display.
The best live offer for each version, every price with its format.
Resolution, modes and FPS come from the video analyses above. The rest is published by each platform's official store and by the game's technical sheet on PC. Where nobody publishes the figure we put a dash, not a guess.
| Feature | PC | Xbox |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics modes | Free settings | Three on Series X: quality, balanced and performance · two on Series S: quality and balanced |
| Modes that require a 120Hz display | — | Balanced, on both Series X and Series S |
| Resolution in quality mode | Unlocked | Dynamic 2160p upscaled from 1584~1440p on Series X · dynamic 1080p on Series S |
| Resolution in performance mode | Unlocked | Dynamic 1080p on Series X · Series S has no performance mode |
| FPS in quality mode | — | 30 on Series X and Series S |
| FPS in balanced mode | — | 40 on Series X and Series S |
| FPS in performance mode | — | Generally stable 60 on Series X, and above that with VRR |
| Ray tracing | Yes, enabled during testing | Yes in quality and balanced on Series X · Series S balanced drops water reflections · Series X performance removes it |
| Upscaling | DLSS 3 | — |
| What performance mode cuts | — | On Series X it lowers lighting, texturing and draw distance below the Series S version |
Xbox is the Series X column unless Series S is stated. Resolution, modes, FPS, VRR and download size come from the videos; HDR, ray tracing and PC features from the technical sheet and the official Xbox catalogue.
FPS measured at 1080p on Epic quality, across 33 graphics cards. These are measurements on this game, not estimates.
| Graphics card | FPS at 1080p | Relative performance |
|---|---|---|
| ASUS GEFORCE RTX 4090 24 GB | 95–112 | |
| Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB | 81–95 | |
| GEFORCE RTX 4080 16 GB SUPER | 81–95 | |
| GEFORCE RTX 4080 16 GB | 80–94 | |
| GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16 GB | 72–85 | |
| ASUS Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB | 72–85 |
PC. It is the only one where ray tracing sits alongside max settings without cutting resolution or frame rate. On Xbox, the best image is Series X in balanced mode, at dynamic 2160p and 40fps with ray tracing.
Balanced. It keeps ray tracing and dynamic 2160p at 40fps. Performance mode reaches generally stable 60fps but removes ray tracing and lowers lighting, texturing and draw distance below even the Series S version.
At dynamic 1080p, with a quality mode at 30fps and a balanced mode at 40fps. Balanced turns off ray-traced reflections and cuts lighting and draw distance, but it is the mode the analysis recommends. Series S has no performance mode.
For balanced mode, yes: it only shows up on 120Hz TVs, on both Series X and Series S. Without one you are left with quality at 30fps, plus the 60fps performance mode on Series X.
In testing, every NVIDIA 40 and 50 series card clears 60fps at max settings with DLSS 3 at its recommended resolution. Of the 33 GPUs we measured on the Epic preset, an RTX 4090 runs at 95-112 FPS and an RTX 4070 Ti SUPER at 72-85.
Not with these measurements. The available comparison covers Xbox Series X, Series S and PC, so we leave the PS5 cells empty rather than estimating them.
Video analysis by El Analista de Bits. The videos play from their own channel. PC data according to PCGamingWiki and our own FPS measurements; Xbox features according to the official Microsoft catalogue.
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