With the voyage to the Zoneonly 8 days away, Nvidia has finally revealed the performance benchmarks forSTALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

The game’s final recommended specswere announced weeks ago, but gamers balked atthe 150GB of disk space requirement,whichputs it aboveCall of Duty: Black Ops6.

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STALKER 2will have Nvidia Reflex and DLSS 3, and the impact of this technology looks very promising.

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According to Nvidia, cards inthe RTX 4000 serieshave their frame count improved by an average of 2.4 times using DLSS 3 with Frame Generation and Super Resolution turned on.

The player holding a shotgun in a Stalker 2 gameplay image.

The Benchmarks

These performance benchmarks used Intel i9 series processors and had 32GB of RAM or over at their disposal.

i9-14900K, 64GB RAM

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Without DLSS 3

With DLSS 3

RTX 4080 SUPER

RTX 4070Ti SUPER

RTX 4070 SUPER

RTX 4060Ti

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Based on what creative director and producer Slava Lukyanenka says, not even that could stop STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl from coming out.

2560x1440 (Laptop)

i9-13980HX, 32GB RAM

1920x1080 (Laptop)

What about AMD Cards?

According to the developers, using the high settings, a computer with anAMD RadeonRX 6800 XT should be able to get 60 FPS at 1440p.

Breaking past that would require a card equivalent to the RX 7900 XTX, but that upgrade comes with a hefty price tag.

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The game will support FSR 3.1 from thestart, but it is unclear whether it will useits frame-generation abilities on launch.

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GSC and Nintendo are yet to disclose the pricing, in what is likely the last announcement before STALKER 2 comes out.

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