Oblivion Remastered runs maxed out at 60 FPS native 4K, but you'll need an RTX 5090

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered benchmarks are surfacing online, and it looks like only one GPU is good enough for max 4K native.

[Vits]

We lost the war the moment PC gamers started treating upscaling as a feature instead of a compromise. As anyone paying attention could have predicted, developers didn’t embrace upscaling to push their craft further. They embraced it because it gave them an easy way out. And what’s almost laughable is how transparent the whole thing was. Upscaling was pitched primarily as a solution to the massive performance hit caused by ray tracing, another technology that, while visually impressive, exists more to streamline development than to genuinely elevate the art.

The same thing is bound to happen with generative AI. Right now, it's being sold as a tool to enhance creativity, to empower small teams, and to reduce busywork. But just like with RT, the real appeal for studios is that it offers a shortcut.

[RaidenBlack]

well said

[anast]

Yep, you got it. But this has been going on well before upscaling. Unless you have bank, PC has always been a compromise.

[Zenzuu]

You can thank Nvidia for that. It was they who pushed ray tracing and DLSS upscaling to the forefront of PC gaming, which in turn dominoed down to consoles as well, because AMD tried to follow up with their own alternative, FSR.

Unfortunately, upscaling is now on every major gaming platform.

[ZycoFox]

Nvidia can take Shatwell and flush it down the toilet.. one of if not the worst generation of Nvidia GPUs released.

[babadivad]

Fermi was close but I think Blackwell takes it.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Isn't it true that the 5090 doesn't even run a lot of older games?

[fsfsxii]

Pc gamers getting ripped left and right 😂😂😂

[anast]

They'll defend it too. This is the same crowd that likes renting games...

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Unreal Engine 5's magic. Newly released generation of cards and already struggling with a standard looking game.

[babadivad]

X

[andy85]

Native 4K is genuinely the biggest waste of resources there is

[Shane Kim]

Same with RT. Sadly more companies will push it because it's an on/off setting in the engine instead of coding light. Soon you'll need RT compatible cards with enough RT cores to just play games.

[andy85]

RT can have it uses and look beautiful at times. But when upscaled 4K can look as good as native it's absolutely pointless.

[DarXyde]

What we're seeing is really a consumer-capitalist issue where people will never just be content with how far things have come and companies move very iteratively. It's why there is consistent pressure to keep making new hardware and why developers simply *have to* take advantage of the new technology.

Gaming, in my view, has kind of reached an Oreo level of "perfection". They've pushed things to where they *can* be comfortable, but there is an insistence on doing new things to bring in new customers or get more money from your existing customers. Do we really need more Oreos? Do we need Uh-Oh Oreos, Cheesecake Oreos, Red Velvet Oreos, Birthday Cake Oreos, or Swedish Fish Oreos? No, not at all.

Similarly, do we really need gaming technology to keep coming out with these iterative products? I don't really think so. We're in a pretty remarkable place now and all we're doing is enhancing graphics/performance and adding features. The games themselves are still very familiar and we're always looking forward to remakes, remasters, and sequels.

I commend Sony, Valve, Meta, and Nintendo for doing a lot with immersion through VR and unconventional controls, but it's not catching on (for VR, anyway). I personally feel that there isn't much value in new hardware these days. Even if we ever hit a point where hardware can run a Witcher III
sized open world at full native 8K/120fps with full ray tracing, no loading times, and advanced NPC AI, the goalpost moves to "how do we get 12K/240fps with path tracing and even more advanced AI in a larger open world without loading times?"

It's always the same, but better. So do we really need more hardware? Maybe it's just me.

[anast]

People are going to need a $2k rig to play a 10 year old game...

[jznrpg]

3k card for 4k 60fps

[anast]

It's worse than I thought. lol

[andy85]

A 4060ti runs it at 1440/60 for about 1k total and looks great. A 4060 with DLSS with do the same. Certainly don't need to spend near 2k to run it. Even 1080p is playable and would be far cheaper.

[glenn1979]

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