[Digital Foundry] Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart - PC Max vs PS5 vs PC Very Low

[John Elden Ring]

NOTE: At the eight minute mark, the RX 570 is compared to the PS4 - we meant PS4 Pro. The RX 570 has 32 GCN compute units, similar to the PS4 Pro GPU, but runs at with higher clocks.

We received an advance build Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart on PC ahead of time, but with not enough time available to do a complete analysis. So here, we take a look at the PC version at max and minimum specs on appropriate hardware and stack it up against the PlayStation 5 version running in its performance RT mode.

• 00:00 Overview
• 03:17 Parade route
• 20:50 Dr. Nefarious pursuit
• 40:21 Rift sequence
• 44:03 Nefarious Cit
• 50:04 Blizar Prime

 

[Entropi]

 

[AshHunter216]

So the game shits the bed if you try to run it on a ps4 HDD.

 

[Darth Vader]

So basically, the game only runs as expected on an SSD. Good to know that another myth is debunked.

 

[Evilms]

You'd have to be mad as hell to play hdd classic in 2023.

 

[ethomaz]

So Sony was right about the game using the SSDs even with people trying to create narratives.

 

[Darth Vader]

So Sony was right about the game using the SSDs even with people trying to create narratives.

Yep. And weirdly they were testing the HDD with the lowest settings. I can't even begin to imagine how sluggish it is with the highest settings.

 

[Gediminas]

so, it is unplayable, how we have thought. and spec are barely better than minimum, we are not even talking PS5 settings or ray tracing.

 

[anonpuffs]

hdd trolls btfo yet again

 

[Darth Vader]

so, it is unplayable, how we have thought. and spec are barely better than minimum, we are not even talking PS5 settings or ray tracing.

It's not unplayable, but one of the main characteristics of the game behaves like absolute garbage. They also don't seem to have tested the fast world switching within the game, only during scripted segments.

Also, lol @ dicktator saying that the game actually looks good at 720p. Like, the same dude that nitpicks graphics has the balls to say that that smear looks good.

 

[AshHunter216]

Either way, the people claiming it would run just fine on a base PS4 didn't know what they were talking about as usual.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Well, that turned out better than expected for the PS5.

It's really impressive what Cerny managed to pull of for $400 in 2020. Might actually be the best console hardware ever for it's time and I can't wait for the PS5 Pro.

 

[Entropi]

They were not lying lol

 

[Sircaw]

Who the hell banned Sleep Brown ffs, he would have loved this thread.

Ps5 power in action.

 

[anonpuffs]

Who the hell banned Sleep Brown ffs, he would have loved this thread.

Ps5 power in action.

he banned himself tbf

 

[flaccidsnake]

The funny thing is Rich's low spec build is sticking pretty close to 60fps other than the heavy IO sections. If you had an SSD in your PS4 it might be a passable way to play the game.

 

[SLB1904]

So the ssd is magic afterall. never fucking tired if taking Ls

 

[Frozone]

So Sony was right about the game using the SSDs even with people trying to create narratives.

Sony was trying to say the SSD on the PS5. I remember the narative back in the day. We all thought that Sony's drive was special and even better than PCs. Now we see that any next-gen Sony game can be played on regular SSD with no problems.

 

[Frozone]

The funny thing is Rich's low spec build is sticking pretty close to 60fps other than the heavy IO sections. If you had an SSD in your PS4 it might be a passable way to play the game.

Yup.

 

[Petekilla]

Sony was trying to say the SSD on the PS5. I remember the narative back in the day. We all thought that Sony's drive was special and even better than PCs. Now we see that any next-gen Sony game can be played on regular SSD with no problems

It was special before the PS5 released. PC’s caught up before the PS5 launched.