Assassin’s Creed Shadows is here to destroy your PC
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is now available on PC, the first game in the series to exclusively target current-generation platforms. This means that the game can fully adopt the latest technologies and be free of the limitations of last-generation console hardware. For Assassin’s Creed Shadows, this brings ray tracing to the series, more destructible environments, and better visuals than ever before.
Today, we will be putting Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ PC version to the test. How well does the game run on lower-end GPUs? Is ray tracing worth it? Does it run best on AMD or Nvidia GPUs? Hopefully, this review will answer your PC-related questions.
For our testing today, Ubisoft provided us with a review code for Assassin’s Creed Shadows. This code was provided mere hours before the game’s official review embargo, which prevented us from publishing data about the game earlier.
GPU Drivers
When testing Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ PC version, we used the newest Nvidia and AMD GPU drivers available at the time of testing. These drivers were AMD Software 25.3.1 and Nvidia’s GeForce 572.83 driver for Windows 10/11.
Test Setup – OC3D’s Gaming Test Rig
Thanks to Corsair, Intel, and ASUS, we have built a new testing system that will allow us to properly test new graphics cards and the newest PC game releases. This system features Intel’s i9-13900K processor and a ROG Strix Z790-F Gaming motherboard, with all other components coming from Corsair.
Our new test system is powered, cooled, and operated using Corsair components. The OS we will be using is Windows 11, and the case we will be using is Corsair’s airflow-optimised iCUE 5000T.
System Specs
Below are the full specifications of our new GPU/Games testing system and links to all the components we used.
OC3D GPU/Games Test System Specifications (Affiliate Links below)
CPU – Intel i9-13900K
Cooling – Corsair iCUE H150i Elite CAPELLIX XT
Motherboard – ASUS ROG Strix Z790-F Gaming WiFi
Memory – Corsair Vengeance 2x16GB (32GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory
Storage – Corsair MP600 PRO NH 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD
Case – Corsair iCUE 5000T RGB
Power Supply – Corsair HX1500i
OS – Windows 11
Nvidia GPUs Tested
When testing new games, we like to use a large number of graphics cards to see how well titles run on both old and new PC hardware configurations. To do this, we use a large selection of AMD and Nvidia graphics cards, including GPUs Nvidia’s RTX 40 series, RTX 30 series, and RTX 20 series. We hope to add some RTX 50 series GPUs to our test suite soon. Hopefully this can happen soon.
- Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming
- Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 WindForce
- Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Eagle
- Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Eagle
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Founders Edition
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 6GB
AMD GPUs Tested
On the Radeon side of the GPU spectrum, we can test the following selection of GPUs, which include both RX 7000 and RX 6000 series GPUs. We hope to add a Radeon RX 9070 series GPU to this list soon.
- Radeon RX 7900 XT
- Radeon RX 6800 XT
- Radeon RX 6800
- Radeon RX 6700 XT
- ASUS ROG Radeon RX 6600 XT Strix
- PowerColor RX 6600 Fighter
