Graphics playing cards could also be lastly beginning to fall again into the realm of cheap pricing, shipments are slowly choosing as much as meet demand, nevertheless it’s nonetheless been a tough few years on the subject of GPUs. Getting your palms on a good graphics card has been nearly inconceivable for a lot of and EA’s upcoming F1 22 has completely no sympathy for any of us.
In accordance with the minimal PC specs necessities listed on EA’s F1 22 website, ray tracing would require not less than a GeForce RTX 2060 or Radeon RX 6700 XT. These are not at all the most affordable playing cards round, particularly with the newer 12GB variant of the 2060s charging into the market at a excessive value. And that is simply the minimal specs EA believes can be required to get these candy mild reflections on moist roads.
In the event you go by the advisable specs, versus the minimal, a GeForce RTX 3070 or Radeon RX 6800 is usually recommended for ray tracing. A few of these playing cards are sometimes sitting at nearly a grand US, so it is a pretty vital funding in PC {hardware}. This implies new F1 fanatics could also be taking a look at a big improve, however outdated ones may have already got it lined.
Maybe what’s most shocking about these necessities is that they’re additionally listed within the required specs on the Steam page for F1 21. Final years’ iteration of Codemasters’ F1 sequence additionally asks for a 2060 or 6700 at least begin for ray tracing performance, with as soon as once more a 3070 or 6800 as advisable.
Our reviewer was fortunate sufficient to review it on a 2070 and had an awesome expertise, so this implies there might not be an excessive amount of change graphically between the years’ releases. Though we hope the chaotic driver helmet cam in VR still works.
Nonetheless F1 recognition has picked up considerably in recent times partly because of the pandemic but in addition because of Netflix’s Drive to Survive sequence. In accordance with CNBC, the primary race of 2022 was ESPN’s most considered since 1995, so we could nicely see a growth in individuals within the videogame as nicely.
We may see a scorching new demand for GPUs popping out of newly turned F1 fanatics. Hopefully provide and pricing will proceed to enhance within the coming months so everybody can get in some prime quality racing come July 1 when F1 22 releases.