Baldur's Gate 3 - GPU Benchmarks: Ultra Optimized & Bottlenecking Tests
10/04/2023
We're benchmarking a ton of GPUs in Baldur's Gate 3, the smash hit from Larian. Although the game is overall highly playable on most cards of the last 5+ years, it serves as an interesting test candidate for GPU Busy. It's also so wildly popular that we want to integrate it into either our GPU test suite for reviews, CPU test suite, or maybe both -- but to figure that out, we need to do some research. That's what this is, we just decided to package it all into a GPU benchmark and publish it for you all. The game runs so well on modern cards (and doesn't require a particularly high framerate to begin with) that we went back to the GTX 10 series, including the GTX 1060, and the RX 580 cards to look at some older hardware. We also found this to be an interesting test case for handheld gaming devices, for which we have tests coming up soon in our next handheld review.