Introduction

Atomic Heart is a first-person shooter with action RPG elements that’s set in an alternate universe. In 1936 the Soviet Union developed a programmable substance called “Polymer,” which boosted the country’s development, making them first to engineer advanced robots, so they could become the world’s leading nation in technology and science. When World War II broke out, the Soviets dispatched the Germans quickly, but shortly before their defeat, the Germans released a deadly virus, which killed millions. Since then, the USSR has made a fortune selling their robots to other nations for the post-war cleanup effort.

But, as you probably guessed, something goes wrong with the robots and your task is to find out what happened, whether it poses a serious threat (of course it does), and how to stop it.

Atomic Heart is published by Focus Interactive and developed by Mundfish studios, which is based out of Cyprus. As game engine, Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 is used, supporting DirectX 12 exclusively. While NVIDIA has been promoting the ray tracing capabilities of Atomic Heart for years, the release version comes without support for RT—it will be added at a later time.

In terms of upscaling almost everything is included: NVIDIA DLSS (3.1.1.0), DLSS 3 Frame Generation (1.0.3.0) and AMD FSR can be activated. Support for Intel XeSS is not included, and DLAA is missing, too. AMD FSR is version 1 only, not version 2.

This benchmark review will evaluate the performance of Atomic Heart on a wide selection of modern graphics cards, show image quality comparisons and look at what’s required in terms of VRAM usage.