Video Compares The Witcher 3 Performance on Xbox Series X to Xbox One
Almost seven years since it was released, CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is still managing to impress gamers with its visual fidelity and crisp gameplay. In a recent video by YouTube channel VG Tech, the channel compares how The Witcher 3 runs in performance mode on the Xbox One X and how it compares to the Xbox Series X running the game, also in performance mode. The results are impressive.
The Witcher 3 was released in May 2015, and, at the time, it was one of the most visually stunning games on eighth-generation consoles. Many fans still consider it to be one of the best-looking games even in 2022. Since 2015, The Witcher 3 has sold 40 million copies making it one of the most successful games in CD Projekt Red’s portfolio. Visually intense games like The Witcher, along with the advent of 4K televisions, pushed Microsoft to create a mid-generation refresh of their Xbox One console in the form of the Xbox One X, a powerful machine capable of higher frame rates at higher resolutions. Despite being over four years old, the Xbox One X still performs well, and VG Tech's recent benchmarks put the console in a positive light.
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With both versions of The Witcher 3 running on patch 4.1.2.10, VG Tech pits the Xbox One X against the Xbox Series X, benchmarking both consoles using the game’s performance mode. The Xbox One X performs admirably, holding a locked 60 frames per second in multiple action sequences while more performance-intensive scenes dip to the low 40s. The Xbox One X version's dynamic resolution scaling ranges from 2650x1490 at the highest end to 1920x1080 at the lowest end. Meanwhile, the Xbox Series X in backward compatibility mode holds a
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