Computerbase has their early performance review for GoW up. Not massively thorough, but at least their benchmark was done in a relatively heavy scene so it's a fair approximation of the game in more intense moments.
The Good:
- Frametimes are decent. No major shader stuttering issues (!).
- 8GB vram is plenty (as it should be as textures are not upgraded)
- Ultra settings do indeed have a
large impact on performance - upwards of 50%, albeit this is seen more at lower resolutions oddly enough. So quite a bit of performance can be clawed back by lowering settings. 3080 at 4k goes from just over 60 with Ultra to ~100 with Original preset.
The middling:
- Ultra graphics settings do not deliver the visual impact for the performance they take. In some scenes with lots of foliage shadows it's definitely noticeable, in many other examples they give it's far less so. The Ultra settings also apparently significant increase the demands on the CPU, albeit they offer no CPU-centric benchmarks to show this.
- Significant differences with high-end AMD vs Nvidia, large wins on the Nvidia side at higher resolutions (~+30%, especially in 1% lows - this explains why AMD had to use FSR on the 6800XT to get ~60fps at sub-4k). However, lower-end cards go to AMD, with the 580 outperforming the 1060.
The Bad:
- No exclusive fullscreen mode. Game will always scale based on your desktop resolution, so DSR becomes a hassle if you want to use it.
- 1060/580 cards cannot maintain 60 fps at 1080p with Original graphics settings. If using Ultra settings, even a 3060ti cannot maintain 60 at 1440p.
- DLSS produces significant ghosting, which is really surprising. In still images it can appear sharper, but on some fine details against contrasted backgrounds it appears significant:
The performance uplift for DLSS is also somewhat minor vs other titles, albeit you usually get those huge uplifts with titles that use RT and thus give you the double benefit for the less rays, so perhaps this is not that abnormal for strictly rasterized titles.
So, pretty decent overall, but hopefully they can fix that DLSS ghosting as I haven't seen examples that egregious in quite a while. But it's at least no "Horizon Zero Dawn on release" quality or anything.