A NVIDIA RTX 5070 paired with a Intel Core i5-13600K lands around 116 fps in Red Dead Redemption 2 at 1080p with High textures, Medium shadows and DLSS Performance. Ray tracing is left off on this pairing. These values come from the same model the interactive optimizer uses, applied to this exact hardware pair rather than a generic preset.
Based on benchmark data and community reports for this hardware combination — treat as an estimate, not a guarantee. How we calculate this.
Red Dead Redemption 2 still sets the bar for a settings menu that rewards attention. Several options — water physics, volumetric raymarch quality, far shadow distance — cost several times what their neighbours do, and a hand-tuned mix routinely beats a preset by twenty percent at the same visual quality.
Vulkan is the renderer to use on current hardware; the DirectX 12 path is more prone to stutter. Saint Denis is the scene to test in, since its crowds are the only place the CPU becomes the limiting factor.
Covers the current PC build in Vulkan. Saint Denis is the CPU reference scene; wilderness is not representative.
Same CPU, different GPU
Same GPU, different CPU