The Gears of War: E-Day Open Beta kicks off this weekend, and with some players already gaining Early Access to the game, we now know that Gears of War: E-Day will ship with a built-in benchmark tool. The tool will also be available on PC for gamers jumping into the Open Beta, and we've also learned that the game includes a graphics setting above 'Ultra' called 'Ludicrous.'
Developer The Coalition built Gears of War: E-Day from the ground up to take full advantage of the latest Unreal Engine 5 engine, from advanced lighting to ray-tracing, destructible environments, and significantly more geometry and detail than any previous Gears game. This includes Unreal Engine's MegaLights, Lumen, and Nanite, and in terms of cutting-edge visuals, the 'Ludicrous' graphics mode is shaping up to be something more for the next-generation of PC gaming hardware.
Popular Now: Rockstar's next game after GTA 6 is already confirmed, but it isn't Red Dead Redemption 3And we say that because it basically brings the powerful GeForce RTX 5090 to its knees, with it unable to hit a steady 60 FPS in 4K even with upscaling. Per the benchmark results from a new video posted by Elegant Egotist, who got early access to the Open Beta on Steam, with the 'Ludicrous' setting, the GeForce RTX 5090, paired with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU, only manages to hit an average frame rate of 44.5 FPS.
Weirdly, this is with FSR 4's Quality preset and not DLSS, even though the game supports DLSS, FSR, and XeSS. Dropping the graphics setting to 'Ultra' brings the average frame rate, with DLSS 4.5's Quality preset this time, to a more impressive 67.5 FPS. But as we're talking about the GeForce RTX 5090 paired with a Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU, it points to Gears of War: E-Day requiring a beast of a rig to play in 4K, with upscaling technology like DLSS to boost performance.
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On the plus side, Gears of War: E-Day is also shaping up to be one of the most visually impressive PC game releases of 2026, so the fact that it pushes today's flagship GPUs with its 'Ultra' and 'Ludicrous' settings is a good reason for PC gamers with high-end rigs to jump into the action.
