DF: Alan Wake 2 PS5 Pro Tech Review - Pro vs PS5 - PSSR vs DLSS - Pro RT vs PC

[ethomaz]

Enjoy.

Alan Wake 2: how does PS5 Pro handle one of the best-looking games of this generation?

Alan Wake 2 is most of the most technologically impressive video games, so the PS5 Pro version should impress, right? Alex + Oliver discuss PS5 Pro vs PS5.

www.eurogamer.net

- PS5 falls behind both IQ and performance compared to same settings using DLSS.
- DLSS has more temporal stable image and better sub pixels.
- PS5’s GPU is around RTX 4070 level but when using PSSR it runs 45% below it.
- Using the same comparison RTX 3070 runs 10% better.

My note here… the performance comparison is expected because DLSS only exists in RTX cards so it is fair to compare using nVidia GPUs but I think his conclusion is wrong because what dropped the performance on PS5 Pro is the AMD GPU that can’t handle RT like RTX cards.

Sadly there is no way to compare it with similar RDNA card on PC because the AMD FSR is so behind PSSR and DLSS that making a comparison using it is dumb.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

Yup, FSR is horrible!

4070 performance levels is fine, given that the console has to come with the whole "computer".

I have not been able to compare the PS5 Pro to DLSS yet, but I suspect that the differences they point out are hard to see in real life (I may be wrong...).

 

[Evilms]

Remedy really suck at optimisation.

 

[Say1nMan]

Remedy really suck at optimisation.

Can't imagine how Max Payne Remake gonna be on that front.

 

[FatKaz]

Reflections still look like ass.

No other games has this bad reflections.

Time to move to UE5 if they can't fix this shit

 

[AllBizness]

Digital Foundry is going to downplay every Pro comparison to PC

 

[Shmunter]

It’s Ass on PS5/Pro.

 

[Shmunter]

Reflections still look like ass.

No other games has this bad reflections.

Time to move to UE5 if they can't fix this shit

Silent Hill 2 looks like ass too

 

[ethomaz]

Reflections still look like ass.

No other games has this bad reflections.

Time to move to UE5 if they can't fix this shit

Alan Wake 2 looks better than any UE5 game out…
Going UE5 should be a downgrade.

 

[mibu no ookami]

Pretty much everyone claimed that Alan Wake 2 was the worst updated game on PS5 Pro, so of course its the game that DF selects for their first comparison with PC. You can't make this stuff up.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

Digital Foundry is going to downplay every Pro comparison to PC

No need to compare to xbox... or even xbox to PC.

 

[Old Gamer]

No need to compare to xbox... or even xbox to PC.

They signed a contract with MS that won't let them.

Not that they'd ever want to make xbox look bad anyway.
They're very prolific shills.