Assassin’s Creed Origins PS4 vs PS4 Pro Graphics Comparison

Assassin’s Creed Origins has been released and it introduced highly anticipated revolution to the series in terms of gameplay and mechanics alongside beautiful graphics. The game was promoted mostly with Xbox One X footage , and on every promotional video t looked just gorgeous. Since latest Microsoft console hasn’t been release out to the wild let’s focus on available mid-gen hardware. It’s time to compare how newest Assassin’s adventure looks running on PS4 Pro and regular version of it. Sadly, at this point it seems that more powerful Sony machine can’t count on dedicated display mode so both versions looks almost identical. Let’s hope Ubisoft will release similar patch as it was promised for XBox One X edition.
How do you like PS4 graphics anyway?

[Sniperwithacause]

Not enough difference for my eyes.
Gonna enjoy it on the OG PS4.

[TyrellCorp]

The video is being displayed at 1080p, there are 4k captures on YouTube if you wanna see the difference. It’s nice but still not massive, these mid gen refreshes have definitely hit the point of diminishing returns imo.

[Zeref]

yeah if we're talking about ps4 pro.

[Gaming101]

There is no Pro patch for AC yet, so it looks identical right now. Just like Evil Within 2, they're doing the patch post release.

[TheKingKratos]

There is no PRO patch yet

[TheKingKratos]

they seems to patch it now as the pro offer:
- Pro offers noticeable improvement in image quality thanks to it's temporal components
- Otherwise in terms of core visual features are identical in PS4 Pro and OG.
- Occasional scenes show better texture quality on Pro (Could be streaming bug).
- Texture filtering, mipmaps and Ambient Occlusion are improved on Pro.
- PS4 Pro supports super sampling for 1080p TV's.

from Digital foundry
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

[kevnb]

on a highly compressed youtube video you can still see significant improvement, the difference on actual output to a large 4k tv will be massive.

[CP_Company]

people speaking that there is no support for Pro. that is why it is looking like 1:1.

[Ju]

The problem with video comparison is, that they are a) the same resolution and b) the players apply filters like crazy. But when the biggest difference is sharpness and resolution, of course such a video won't capture that

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

What more support should there be besides a more stable framerate and higher native res? The RAM amount is the same so there won't be any higher res textures or LOD. Smaller less taxing graphical effects like AO and Shadow quality should be a little better though imo

[Ju]

The lod usually are not necessarily a ram thing, also draw distance is usually improved and sometimes shadow's have slightly higher resolution (but that is a ram issue)

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

Yes it is... More items on Screen per frame, this includes Draw distance and many other effects.

[Ju]

Geometry instancing etc can save memory. It's not just memory which is a factor here. And lod is performance limited. The more bandwidth the higher you can go with lod levels. They are probably always there but trigger different on Pro and Slim

[gammaray13]

there is no support for pro what so ever

[Crazywhitie]

Right. I've been saying this for awhile. I really starting to feel ripped off with the Pro

[TKCMuzzer]

eh, Horizon Zero Dawn, GTSport (fantastic in HDR on the Pro), Wipeout........there is plenty, but just like the upcoming 'X', you will only see the real support from 1st party studios and 3rd party if they can be bothered (Witcher 3 is a good example along with Tombraider of good 3rd party). People hoping 3rd party are going to throw extra at the Pro and X are mistaken, the main 'sales' base is still the OG consoles.

[Ceaser9857361]

HDR for PS4 pro will release in Nov along with xbox x getting the 4k update. Confirmed ..

[MegaMohsi]

fake news, PS4 Pro has a 4k mode in this game. HDR will be patched in probably when the X update comes out.

[Bigpappy]

4K without supporting textures wouldn't make much of a difference

[Ju]

^^^ how would you even know that? Given the fact you must have never played such a game

[DarXyde]

I think we both know that's objectively false.

It isn't well supported, but it still has some support.

Sony just needs to enforce Pro support. I'm supposing it's optional at the moment, so a mandate would work wonders.

[RodimusJ]

No difference at all.

[TKCMuzzer]

Like most of the differences, a 4K TV in front of your own eyes is the only true way to see. This will be the same for all comparisons going forward for both mid gen consoles. Unless you see things running on an actual 4K TV your very unlikely to see any differences.

[Ju]

Absolutely true. Guess which other console will have same problem... But reactions will be totally different.

[blackblades]

Yeah, but it seems people just don't get it for some reason.

[Elda]

Absolutely! I've been saying this all along.Unless you're sitting 2 to 5 feet in front of the tv screen you can see a difference,folks siiting 7 ft or more won't be able to. First party developers will make the games on mid gen consoles shine like Sony has for the Pro.

[Tsar4ever01]

The differences is so slight, you barley even notice any difference. But I can see it. There's that "pesky 1/2gb, ie 512mb allocation" at work here.

I can only assume that the X1X will look closer to the pc version with sharper textures, more foliage, cleaner draw distances & shadows due it's larger memory pool. But the frames will be no better than the Pro, possibly a little more stable due to the tweaked jaguar cores. The Jaguar cores will continue to be the main bottleneck of the upgrades consoles this gen. Meh, after X1X launches in Nov, it's gonna pretty much be like this on 3rd party multi-plats for the next few years till PS5. PC< X1X< PRO< PS4< X1S

[Ju]

All this PC sh!t you try to pull every day here. Guess what, I still can't see a difference on videos without a lense. It's just impossible to do that in a video with the pixel density these games have these days

[Tsar4ever01]

"All this PC sh!t you try to pull every day here." What are you talking about?

I'm actually pro PlayStation and I also play PC games but titles mostly from the 90's to late 2010. Why you so triggered? Is it because of the fact that the consoles will never match the visual & performance level of a gaming PC somehow offends you?

[Ju]

No. Not at all. This wasn't my purchase decision and it's a mood point if some feel the need to reiterate this constantly. Price performance ratio is. But this isn't a factor for the general audience on ths site. But...I just wasted minutes on another meaningless comments....W/e

[TheKingKratos]

""the X1X will look closer to the pc version with sharper textures, more foliage, cleaner draw distances & shadows due it's larger memory pool."

Link to the developer saying that ?

[Tsar4ever01]

"Link to the developer saying that"

Don't need to. X1X's new 6TF GPU and larger memory pool advantage already speaks for itself.

Already we're reading signs of this from how closer to PC is the latest Assassins Creed: Origins compared to from the PS4/Pro where the Pro will look muddy & blurry in "Close Inspections" where the X1X would look cleaner and more detailed. The X1X's new GPU & larger memory volume will be the defining differences and will shine through it's Graphics Fidelity, BUT due to the Jaguar cpu cores (*however updated and tweaked) Will not perform any better than the Pro, maybe more stable in most respect. But both consoles with patched updates will share basically the same FPS on 3rd party titles because of Jaguar.

Just wait and see. I'm sure Richard & crew from Digital Foundary will express this constantly in 3rd party comparison vids after X1X launches in Nov.

[TheKingKratos]

So you don't have anything to back you up
good to know
go sleep troll
and by the way
from Digital foundry :
- Pro offers noticeable improvement in image quality thanks to it's temporal components
- Occasional scenes show better texture quality on Pro.
- Texture filtering, mipmaps and Ambient Occlusion are improved on Pro.
- PS4 Pro supports super sampling for 1080p TV's.

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

[1nsomniac]

My Pro was the biggest waste of money & disappointing upgrade I’ve ever had.

There is soo little actual noticeable difference between games so far. It’s been out long enough now that we should be seeing vast improvements as standard & we simply haven’t. The situation just isn’t improving at all & worst of all there is absolutely no sign of it improving or that Sony even cares!

[crazyCoconuts]

What size 4k TV do you have?

[_LarZen_]

My guess is he don’t have one.

[1nsomniac]

LG 55” With HDR. You can check my previous comments where I mention I hate having to swap cables on my PSVR so HDR takes priority.

As is expected with N4G any critique against Sony is seen with ridiculous little fanboys throwing their dummies around.

Even media outlets are currently publicly calling out Sony for the lack of improvements over what was promised during its presentation.

[blackblades]

It's hard to believe someone on the internet.

[Ju]

How can it magically improve? How much did you spend on the "upgrade". Mine was about $150. I don't know why people expected a new generation when in fact it's the same with a push to higher res for basically the same price. Nothing else. I don't regret my purchase at all. The games look sharper. I have a Slim also, and it sure is noticeable if you play games on that, too. Or you play non patched games.

[Elda]

Agreed! Games that are Pro enhanced especially if it has HDR look great on my 4k hdr tv.The image is sharper & the colors are vibrant.

[Orejillz]

The PS4 Pro support releases on Nov. 6... so you just compared the standard version of the game with the standard version of the game.

[DrumBeat]

Is it better on the Pro? Yes. Significantly better? No. Enough of a reason to upgrade to Pro from the base? Up to you.

[Ju]

Game looks awesome regardless. It impresses me again and again the the slim can actually stand it's ground.

[kevnb]

its enough better that you can see differences on a 1080p highly compressed youtube video.

[Bobafret]

Protato-Soup

[kevnb]

comments like the ones in this thread are the reason why i speculate this website is full of Microsoft astroturfers.

[LateNightThirst]

I think the N4G crowd argued that the Pro version is literally the same as the One X. When it doesn't ever hit native 4K on the dynamic resolution scaler or even close to it. Maxes out at like 1520p, still a large improvement over base hardware, but I really wanna see this game with HDR when the X launches

[Master of Unlocking]

How come the game is enhanced for the Xbox One X and not for the PS4 Pro? Ubisoft better release a patch for both systems simultaneously when the X releases at the latest, or it will be a dead giveaway they're sellouts.

[Hardiman]

It looks great on the Pro! I have a 65 KS9000 in the living room and the boys have a 55 inch Vizio E series in their room and there is a difference between the two. It's not day and night but it does look better on the Pro.