Milestone will release the latest part in its bike racing series, RIDE 5, in a few days. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, it’s time now to benchmark RIDE 5 and examine its performance on the PC platform.
For our RIDE 5 PC Performance Analysis, we used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX580, RX Vega 64, RX 6900XT, RX 7900XTX, NVIDIA’s GTX980Ti, RTX 2080Ti, RTX 3080 and RTX 4090. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, the GeForce 536.99 and the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 23.7.2 drivers. Moreover, we’ve disabled the second CCD on our 7950X3D.
Milestone has included a few graphics settings to tweak. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Textures, Anti-Aliasing, Shadows, Reflections, Ambient Occlusion, Motion Blur, Bloom, Lens Flares and Particles Effects. Surprisingly enough, the game only supports AMD’s FSR 1.0, and there is no support for FSR 2.0. Moreover, the game does not support Intel XeSS or NVIDIA DLSS 2.
RIDE 5 does not feature any built-in benchmark tool. Thus, for our GPU benchmarks, we used the following custom race. In this race, we have the maximum number of bikes in rainy conditions. Therefore, this demanding scenario should give us a pretty good idea of how the rest of the game runs.
RIDE 5 does not require a high-end CPU in order to be enjoyed. At 1080p/Max Settings, our NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 was able to push over 300fps in our stress test. Thus, we can safely say that the game will run smoothly on a wide range of PC configurations.
At 1080p/Max Settings, most of our GPUs were able to provide a smooth gaming experience. Yes, even the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 980Ti had no trouble pushing over 70fps at all times.
At 1440p/Max Settings, our top five GPUs have no trouble running the game with over 60fps. On the other hand, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 came close to a 60fps experience (with a minimum of 54fps and an average of 57fps). As for Native 4K/Max Settings, the AMD Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 7900XTX and NVIDIA RTX 4090 were able to provide framerates higher than 60fps at all times. The NVIDIA RTX 3080 was also able to provide a smooth gaming experience.
Graphics-wise, RIDE 5 looks similar to RIDE 4. That’s not a bad thing as RIDE 4 was able to fool a lot of people into thinking that a replay from it was from a real race. RIDE 5 is pleasing to the eye but it does not really stand out as a next-gen game. Given its really low GPU requirements, we were also hoping for some Ray Tracing effects.
All in all, the performance of RIDE 5 on PC is exceptional. This new bike racing game can run smoothly on a huge range of PC configurations. It also plays surprisingly well with the keyboard (I was playing the game with the keyboard in the gameplay video I shared). However, its graphics are very similar to RIDE 4, to the point that it feels like a “Complete” or “Enhanced” Edition, and not like a proper sequel to it!
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