Introduction

“Survivor” is the second installment in EA’s “Star Wars Jedi” Series where you play as Cal Kestis, who’s graduated from Padawan to Jedi in “Fallen Order” (2019) and is now facing the empire to protect the last remaining survivors of Order 66. EA’s newest AAA game release is developed by Respawn Studios, who also handled the first title. While the core gameplay of this third-person action-adventure is very similar to its predecessor, several improvements have been added like multiple combat styles through “stances,” and there’s an increased focus on puzzle elements during gameplay.

Just like Fallen Order, Survivor uses Unreal Engine 4, but this time with DirectX 12 exclusively, while the first game was DX11 only. Using the latest version of DirectX means that ray tracing is now supported, which adds RT reflections and possibly lighting, but it’s difficult to tell a difference. Since this is an AMD sponsored title, you’re getting support for AMD FSR, but DLSS is not included.

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