Image Quality and System requirements
Image quality settings and benchmark system
At the minimum, (1080p and 30 fps at low details), The Division 2 needs a Geforce GTX 670 or Radeon R9 270 with 2 GB of video memory including a quad core like the Core i5-2500K or FX-6350; the RAM should be 8 GB. For 1080p with the medium preset and a more fluid 60 fps Ubisoft advises to a Geforce GTX 970 or Radeon RX 480 with a Core i7-4790 or Ryzen 5 1500X including 8 GB of RAM.
At 1440p with 60 fps and high details a Geforce GTX 1070 or a Radeon RX Vega 56; the new GeForce GTX 1660 Ti also falls into this performance class is adviced. CPU wise Massive Entertainment recommends a Core i7-6700K or a Ryzen 7 1700 plus 16 GB of RAM. In 4K with Ultra-Settings, the studio then speaks unsurprisingly of the Geforce RTX 2080 Ti and the Radeon VII, the fastest graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia (the Titan RTX runs out of line).
The PC version of The Division 2 supports SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) as well as HDR (High Dynamic Range), if a corresponding display or a suitable TV with the right graphics card are available. Resolution and frame rate as well as frequency are open at the shooter upwards, even multi-monitor setups or ultra-widescreen models work properly.
We test with Ultra quality settings enabled, we'll also peek at performance with different quality modes.
The graphics cards tested
In this article, we'll make use of the following cards at a properly good PC experience graphics quality wise, the quality mode as shown above with Vsync disabled (which needs to be done by editing a configuration file). The graphics cards used in this test are:
- GeForce GTX 970
- GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB)
- GeForce GTX 1070
- GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
- GeForce GTX 1080
- GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
- GeForce GTX 1660
- GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
- GeForce GTX 980 Ti
- GeForce RTX 2060
- Geforce RTX 2070
- Geforce RTX 2080
- Geforce RTX 2080 Ti
- GeForce Titan Xp
- Radeon R9 390X (8GB)
- Radeon R9 Fury
- Radeon RX 470 (8GB)
- Radeon RX 480 (8GB)
- Radeon RX 570 (8GB)
- Radeon RX 580 (8GB)
- Radeon RX 590
- Radeon RX Vega 56
- Radeon RX Vega 64
- Radeon VII
Our graphics card test system has been upgraded. The recent premium GeForce RTX cards have been showing a bit of CPU limitation in the lower resolutions. We are using an eight-core Intel Core i9 9900K processor on the Z390 chipset platform. Next, to that, we have energy saving functions disabled for this motherboard and processor (to ensure consistent benchmark results). We use Windows 10 all patched up. Each card runs on the same PC with the same operating system clone.
System Spec
- Core i9 9900K
- Z390 (ASRock Tachi Ultimate)
- 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz CL16
- NVMe M.2. SSD WD Black
Graphics drivers
- GeForce graphics cards use the latest 419.35 WHQL driver (download).
- Radeon graphics cards we used the latest AMD Radeon Adrenalin 19.3.2 driver (download).
