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Cities Skylines 2 reportedly runs with 7-12fps on an Intel Core i9 13900KS with AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX at 4K/High Settings

Cities Skylines 2 reportedly runs with 7-12fps on an Intel Core i9 13900KS with an AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX at 4K/High Settings.

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Cities Skylines 2 will release in a few days and from the looks of it, it will be one of the worst-optimized PC games of 2023. According to some early benchmarks, this new city builder runs with 7-12fps on an Intel Core i9 13900KS with an AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX at 4K/High Settings.

PCGamesHardware got access to the game and shared some early benchmarks. And, as we can see, the game performs horribly on AMD’s most powerful GPU.

At 4K/High Settings, the game can drop to 7fps and usually averages at 12fps. Even with AMD FSR 1.0 at 50% resolution scale, the game cannot come close to 30fps. Let me repeat that. With AMD FSR 1.0 at 50%, so basically with an internal resolution at 1080p, Cities Skylines 2 runs at 25fps on the AMD RX 7900XTX. Ouch.

Cities Skylines 2 is using the Unity Engine and from what we know, it does not feature any Ray Tracing effects. So, I’m curious to see how PC gamers will react to this game which appears to look and perform worse than any of the recently released Unreal Engine 5 titles. Oh, and all the UE5 games use Nanite and Lumen, two features that can provide a huge visual improvement over what Unity Engine is currently capable of.

 

[Sethbacca]

Too bad, was looking forward to this one.

 

[Killer8]

Cities Skylines 2 is using the Unity Engine

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[Kenpachii]

What a joke.

 

[adamsapple]

News - Drama - Game Dev - Cities: Skylines II pre-release benchmarks show RTX3080 at 24 fps... on 1080p

Cities: Skylines II (pre-release) 1080p "high" 1440p "high" GeForce RTX 4090 (Gigabyte Gaming OC) 38.1 fps 28.8 fps Radeon RX 7900 XT (Sapphire Pulse) 34.4 fps 22.8 fps GeForce RTX 3080 (MSI Gaming X Trio) 24.4 fps 16.3 fps Radeon RX 6700 XT (XFX Merc 319 Black) 18.3 fps 11.0...

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[SJRB]

Next slide, please.

 

[lh032]

platform parity!!!! good job devs!

 

[rofif]

I know it does a lot of calculating. But can't it just be simcity 4 with better graphics?!

 

[SHA]

The only limit is your imagination.

 

[Fake]

'Maybe its time to upgrade your PC'.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Series S will run this, no problem.

 

[StereoVsn]

Its certainly a shitshow that nobody should be buying at release, but there is that thread above already.

 

[Gaiff]

 

[mansoor1980]

he was right all along

 

[SmokedMeat]

Why is this still available for purchase? Should be pulled from the marketplace until it’s finished.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

So is this game actually GPU bound or CPU bound? How are 4K results?

 

[Kadve]

Why is this still available for purchase? Should be pulled from the marketplace until it’s finished.

It was on consoles. To bad noone can stop them from releasing on PC though.

 

[MikeM]

“Enjoy lower than console experiences with $2-3k rigs”
- Devs

 

[SolidQ]

Almost same fps as 4090. Devs is joke

 

[Thief1987]

76 on OC though, so a good game with some flaws, like running at 10 fps

 

[Mr Reasonable]

VRR will sort it out.

 

[Lagspike_exe]

Embarrassing. These devs are starting to behave as if they can release any beta-level garbage and keep patching it, with people buying. It's like releases turning into alpha testing early access.

 

[Three]

So is this game CPU or GPU bound with those settings?

 

[Lagspike_exe]

So is this game CPU or GPU bound with those settings?

Game is bound by terrible engine optimization. It's laughable that a game is released that runs on 7-12 FPS on top tier hardware.

 

[Three]

Game is bound by terrible engine optimization. It's laughable that a game is released that runs on 7-12 FPS on top tier hardware.

It is but it would be good to know what they are doing a poor job on. CPU optimisation or GPU optimisation? I'm guessing it's GPU bound judging by the other thread.

 

[VAVA Mk2]

 

[LiquidMetal14]

This has to be the first game to require The Citadel in Reno, NV. Too bad it's so far away for me to okay this day one in FL.

I mapped it out and it's around a 23 hour drive with some out stops for pooping and eating at Denny's. I fairly excluded sight seeing.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Don't care about FPS, how many reticulated splines per second does this baby crank out?

 

[Knightime_X]

I wonder if this is one of those games where certain ultra settings are 2x-3x more expensive but looks exactly the same as high

 

[Kataploom]

Didn't take long...

 

[mitch1971]

Shitty Skylines 2

 

[Mokus]

'Maybe its time to upgrade your PC'.

Yeah, by preordering RTX 5090 for a solid 30 fps experience.

 

[Rentahamster]

So is this game CPU or GPU bound with those settings?

yes

 

[The Cockatrice]

Its fine, the human eye can't see more than 24FPS anyway.

 

[Hudo]

So, when is the performance DLC for $20 coming out?

 

[SHA]

The guy who relive PS2 graphics over and over again.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

It's not like that the first one is particulary good at optimization either. CS is a slideshow in more or less big cities, especially during the floods. And even a hog like Anno 1800 is running miles ahead of CS with all actual DLCs in terms of performance and visual density.

Unity in general is a poor choice for busy tycoon sims, so not surprising.

 

[Mephisto40]

So how is this going to run on an xbox series S?

 

[Kiya's Guard]

Too many curved road calculations

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

So how is this going to run on an xbox series S?

Barely

 

[winjer]

This game is a real train wreck.....

 

[SmokedMeat]

So how is this going to run on an xbox series S?

How does it run at all on any of the consoles?

 

[M1chl]

Unity? That's insane for game of this scale, given that Garbage Collector, which is inherent to C# lang will be stalling the game constantly.

 

[winjer]

Maybe Unity is now charging by the fps.....

 

[SidViscous]

This game is a real train wreck.....

But that gif is running at a higher frame rate than the game!