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HoloDust on 01 October 2025
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sc94597 said:
HoloDust said:

If we were talking about pretty much any other RT game, I would agree with you, since Ampere is easily beating RDNA2 in them. This one, no. Actually, AC:Shadows is good example of another game where, even with RT, Ampere is struggling against RDNA2, even more so than in Outlaws. Actually, in AC:Shadows all nVidia cards perform quite a bit worse than in Outlaws vs their AMD counterparts.

And AC:Shadows runs on Deck, even with "Global Illumination everywhere" option. Yeah, it kinda looks like dog shit with that turned on, due to lack of DLSS, but it runs on Deck and is sort of (though barely) custom build. No wonder, also Ubisoft game - for some reason, Ubi's games really love AMD GPUs.

So, as I said, I'm not convinced. Now, given that they've done it for AC:Shadows, maybe Ubi will do something for the Deck in Outlaws as well - at least to some degree, if not really going all the way, like with Switch 2 port. If not...well, we'll be left to speculate what the bottleneck was.

I'm not quite getting the logic here. The game by default runs beyond expectations on RDNA2 dGPU's already (outperforming Ampere even in RT loads you're suggesting), but somehow that means there is more room for the Steam Deck (and AMD iGPU's in general) to be optimized beyond this and not less? Isn't the argument being made that it isn't optimized well on Steam Deck (and other platforms with AMD iGPUs) and could potentially be? 

Also, as I pointed out in another post - this title isn't exceptionally optimized for SW2's GPU as many are making it seem. In docked mode SW2's GPU is about 70% of a 45W TGP RTX 3050 mobile, and in SWO it is performing roughly in line with that (variable 50-70 fps on RTX 3050 laptop vs. 30fps @ same internal resolution and with reduced graphics settings on SW2 docked, 57% of the internal resolution in portable mode as docked mode/RTX 3050m also @30fps.) Performance is basically right in line, if not a bit underwhelming for docked mode, with what you'd expect with scaling based on raw power of these respective Ampere chips/modes. 

What I'm saying is that even AC:Shadows build for Deck it's not custom built port, like Outlaws is on Switch 2. So what I'm saying, again, is that if Deck was given Switch 2 treatment and care, with all the additional reductions, Outlaws would, more likely than not, run fine on it.