This is what Elden Ring at 8K looks and plays like with the Nvidia RTX 3090

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With FromSoftware, the team behind critically acclaimed titles like Dark Souls and Bloodborne, teaming up with A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin, it's little surprise that Elden Ring — the fruit of that collaboration — has been so eagerly awaited.

Now that it's out, the reviews for it have been fantastic. However, I was keen to see how the game looks and plays at 8K on TechRadar's monster 8K test machine.

As with trying Dying Light 2 at 8K, I've been using the LG 55NANO966PA 8K TV for testing on, and when combined with the powerful Nvidia RTX 3090 graphics card, this setup can give us a taste of what the future of gaming may hold.

With 8K resolution weighing in at a huge 7,680 x 4,320, running any game is going to be extremely demanding, especially ambitious open world games with huge enemies, such as Elden Ring.

However, we've seen recent games like Dying Light 2 and God of War come with support for Nvidia's DLSS upscaling technology, along with AMD's rival FidelityFX. Both of these features run games at lower resolutions, then upscale them to a higher resolution which offers better performance with minimal impact to graphics.

Both DLSS and FidelityFX Super Resolution have helped modern games hit 8K resolutions while maintaining playable framerates, with some even