Gamer plays Battlefield 6 with an eight-year-old GPU that is now cheaper than the game itself – and has a lot of fun doing so.

Battlefield 6 has moderate system requirements – a YouTuber has now gone to the absolute limit and shows that a smooth 60 FPS is possible even with an aging AMD GPU.

Battlefield 6 has been officially out for about a week and has been making shooter fans’ hearts beat faster since its release. However, it’s not just the widely praised multiplayer action that’s responsible for this – PC gamers can also enjoy more than decent optimization of the game.

Especially in times of new AAA games, which have now started to require an Nvidia RTX 2070 or AMD RX 5700 XT as minimum requirements, this is causing a lot of excitement in the PC community.
YouTuber “RandomGaminginHD” takes this to the (presumed) extreme and shows how smoothly Battlefield 6 runs with an AMD Radeon RX 570.
60 FPS are possible with the AMD GPU

As a reminder, the AMD Radeon RX 570 was released on April 18, 2017, as a mid-range GPU of the Polaris generation for an MSRP of around $230. Today, you can easily find a used RX 570 for $55 – significantly less than the full price of Battlefield 6.

• In terms of specifications, the RX 570 relied on the 14 nm Polaris 20 XL with 2,048 shader units at a maximum clock speed of 1,244 MHz, 4 GB of GDDR5 memory, and a TDP of 150 watts.
• Briefly, for context: The “current AMD mid-range” in the form of the RX 9060 XT has the same number of shader units, but with its 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, 3,130 MHz boost clock and slightly higher TDP, it is around 3.5 times faster in benchmarks. Of course, the price is also significantly higher.

Despite its age, the Radeon RX 570 manages to deliver decent performance in the YouTube video.

At the lowest settings at 1080p, the Radeon RX 570 delivers between 50 and 60 frames per second. Although this requires some visual compromises, the textures remain acceptable even at minimum graphics settings, as the YouTuber notes.

By scaling the resolution to 60 percent with native 1080p output, the YouTuber achieves a consistent 60 to 65 FPS, with intense battles occasionally dropping to around 45 FPS.

However, switching on upscaling solutions such as FSR is not really an option: since the Radeon RX 570 only has 4 GB of video memory, upscaling sometimes causes spikes in latency.