Even the RTX 5090 can't handle October's most wishlisted Steam game in 4K — first tests of Phantom Blade Zero with and without DLSS

However, if you don't chase top-tier graphics, you can get a solid 60 FPS even without NVIDIA technologies.

The release of Phantom Blade Zero is approaching, and some bloggers and media outlets have already had the chance to check out the game. DSOGaming decided to share the technical benchmark results for the upcoming title, which runs on the modern Unreal Engine 5.7.4. They also noted that the game is protected by the infamous Denuvo.

For the tests, the journalist used a PC equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D processor and 32 GB of RAM. The game was run on various graphics card models: AMD Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 7900XTX, RX 9070XT, as well as NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 4090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090. The game supports NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR, and Intel XeSS upscalers, as well as ray tracing and path tracing.

Judging by the tests presented, even an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is not enough for Phantom Blade Zero to achieve 60 FPS at native 4K resolution on ultra settings with path tracing. Without DLSS support, one can expect an average of 27 FPS, but at 1080p resolution, it can reach 70 FPS under the same settings.

If DLSS is enabled, however, the situation changes — in Phantom Blade Zero you can get 60 FPS, and with frame generation, over 100 FPS.

If you play without ray tracing and path tracing, Phantom Blade Zero at 1080p on ultra settings can run at an average of 44 FPS on an RTX 2080 Ti-tier graphics card, and at 111 FPS on an RTX 5090.

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You can wishlist Phantom Blade Zero on Steam via the following link. The game's release is scheduled for October 29, 2026, not only on PC, but also on PlayStation 5 consoles.