Crimson Desert
Max Preset / TPU Custom Scene
Tested with AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D • DDR5-6000 MHz
Data: TechPowerUp, Mar 2026 · compiled by EMARQUE
Estimated frames per second (FPS)
Tested at Ultra High Settings
RX 9070 XT
16GB
122 FPS
Shop PC
RX 9070
16GB
111 FPS
Shop PC
RX 9060 XT
16GB
84 FPS
Shop PC
RX 9060 XT
8GB
71 FPS
Shop PC
Full results: every GPU at 1080p, 1440p and 4K
| GPU | 1080p | 1440p | 4K |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 5090 32GB | 200 FPS | 159 FPS | 103 FPS |
| RTX 5080 16GB | 145 FPS | 106 FPS | 63 FPS |
| RTX 5070 Ti 16GB | 130 FPS | 96 FPS | 57 FPS |
| RX 9070 XT 16GB | 122 FPS | 88 FPS | 53 FPS |
| RX 9070 16GB | 111 FPS | 79 FPS | 47 FPS |
| RTX 5070 12GB | 106 FPS | 75 FPS | 43 FPS |
| RX 9060 XT 16GB | 84 FPS | 64 FPS | 30 FPS |
| RTX 5060 Ti 8GB | 80 FPS | 56 FPS | 31 FPS |
| RTX 5060 Ti 16GB | 80 FPS | 56 FPS | 31 FPS |
| RTX 5060 8GB GDDR7 | 73 FPS | 50 FPS | 28 FPS |
| RX 9060 XT 8GB | 71 FPS | 49 FPS | 29 FPS |
Pearl Abyss's open-world action RPG, released March 19 2026 on the in-house BlackSpace engine — the same lineage as Black Desert Online, rebuilt over seven years for full ray-traced global illumination at world scale.
How demanding is Crimson Desert?
BlackSpace's per-pixel ray-traced global illumination runs across outdoor and indoor scenes with negligible performance cost — Pearl Abyss claims it rivals Unreal Engine 5's Lumen with noticeably less GPU overhead. PC supports DLSS 4.5 with Multi Frame Generation, DLSS Ray Reconstruction, AMD FSR Redstone with Ray Regeneration, plus Intel XeSS. RT effectively comes free.
What GPU do you need for Crimson Desert?
Our estimates put an RTX 5070 or Radeon RX 9070 XT comfortably above 80 FPS at 1080p; the RTX 5070 Ti or RX 9070 XT clears 90 FPS at 1440p with RT on. Native 4K above 60 FPS lands on the RTX 5080; the RTX 5090 pushes past 100 FPS at 4K. BlackSpace's efficiency makes Crimson Desert one of the easiest RT-on workloads at any tier.
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