Watch Dogs: Legion is out — but how does it perform at 8K with the RTX 3090?
Watch Dogs: Legion is now out, allowing players to recruit pretty much any NPC in the game to help liberate a near-future London from its oppressors. As our review points out, it’s a bit too much of a formulaic Ubisoft open world game, but there is fun to be had, and on PC there’s plenty of graphical settings, including ray tracing, and support for ultra-high definition resolutions. With the Nvidia RTX 3090, we’ve also now got a GPU that puts in a decent performance when it comes to 8K. In our Nvidia RTX 3090 vs RTX Titan smackdown, we found the RTX 3090 did a decent job of running games like Doom Eternal and Death Stranding at monstrous 7,680 x 4,320 resolutions. With Watch Dogs: Legion being an open world game that tries to replicate a large portion of London with realistic graphics (check out our video below for how accurate it is), the RTX 3090 is really going to have its work cut out, especially as Ubisoft isn’t best known for its PC ports, unfortunately. So, without further ado, let’s see just how well the RTX 3090 runs Watch Dogs: Legion at 8K. As we’re optimists here at TechRadar, we went right ahead and put Watch Dogs: Legion to ‘Ultra’ settings at 8K and ran the benchmark. The results… were not good. The RTX 3090 managed an average of 22 frames per second (FPS), with it dipping to just 16FPS during a hectic firefight. The benchmark, it should be noted, runs through a busy Camden Market scene at night, with puddles, neon lights and rain. It’s certainly intensive, as these results show. Also, even though these settings were ‘Ultra’, that didn’t mean every graphical effect was whacked up to full. Ray traced reflections, for example, were turned off.
