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Resident Evil 5 Gameplay Performance and IQ

Greedy multinational biotech corporations have infected hordes of African citizens with an apocalyptic mind-controlling parasite, and it's up to you and your sexy sidekick to save the world! But before you get started, you better make sure your video card is up to the task. Check it out with us as we test the best video cards out today including all of the new Radeon HD 5000 series video cards!

CPU and Memory Utilization in Resident Evil 5

CPU Utilization with NVIDIA GPUs

For CPU usage testing with NVIDIA GPUs, we are using the GeForce GTX 285 video card. There are two graphs here. The first graph displays total CPU usage as a percentage across all four cores. The second graph shows usage of each core, with each core marked by a different color line. Please note that these graphics reflect whole system usage, not just usage by the Resident Evil 5 process. The game was played at 2560x1600 with 4X MSAA and 16X AF.

On our overclocked Core 2 Extreme QX9770, we saw an average load of 29% across all four cores with the second core (core 1) loaded the most heavily. Core 1 averaged 40% and peaked at about 83%. The other three cores were engaged by the game, but not as heavily as the second core.

Memory Usage with NVIDIA GPUs

We used the GeForce GTX 285 for memory usage testing in Resident Evil 5. The game was played at 2560x1600 with 4X MSAA and 16X AF.

Note: the graph below reflects megabytes (MB) of FREE memory. When the line goes down, more memory is being consumed.

At the desktop, we had 3215MB of memory available. At peak load, we had 2655MB available, while there was 2755MB available on average. The game then used 460MB of memory on average, peaking with 100MB more at 560MB.

CPU Utilization with AMD GPUs

For CPU usage testing with AMD GPUs, we are using the Radeon HD 5870 video card. There are two graphs here. The first graph displays total CPU usage as a percentage across all four cores. The second graph shows usage of each core, with each core marked by a different color line. Please note that these graphics reflect whole system usage, not just usage by the Resident Evil 5 process. The game was played at 2560x1600 with 4X MSAA and 16X AF.

Interestingly, we are seeing a similar performance dip on the CPU usage using the Radeon HD 5870 as we saw with the video card’s framerate graph. Across all four cores, we averaged 16% load with a peak of about 58%. Core 1 again was the most heavily loaded, averaging 26% and peaking at 67%. That is about half of the average CPU load we saw with the GeForce GTX 285, but it is likely due to the strange dip we saw during the cinematic sequences.

Memory Usage with AMD GPUs

We used the Radeon HD 5870 for memory usage testing in Resident Evil 5. The game was played at 2560x1600 with 4X MSAA and 16X AF.

With the Radeon HD 5870 installed, the test system had 3219MB of memory available sitting at the desktop. When we started the game, it immediately dropped to about 2948MB, and then fell another 150MB for the rest of the game. The game used an average of 421MB memory and peaked at 491MB.