Ghost Recon: Breakpoint launched back at the beginning of October 2019 to little fanfare. Surrounded by controversy in their monetization plans for microtransactioning people to death. That all aside the performance was the part of the game I was most concerned about as the quality of the game's review was up to our gaming gurus. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint was and still is powered by the Anvil Next 2.0, the same engine that powers Assassin's Creed Odyssey (a bit more popular game even by today's standard) and is held back by one major flaw, it's DX11. Time for Breakpoint Vulkan edition!

That has finally changed. The Anvil Next 2.0 engine has officially been ported to the Vulkan API for this title. But was it worth the effort and should you care as someone who might be playing the game?

Testing Methodology And Setup

Ghost Recon Breakpoint carries the tradition of bringing a built-in benchmark to the table and after starting with the RX 570 in our initial testing of the game we settled on High being the sweet spot preset we decided to proceed with Anti-Aliasing disabled along with Temporal Injection disabled as well to limit variability. These performance results also have FidelityFX CAS disabled.

We used FrameView to capture the performance from the 167 second run of the benchmark while running at the High preset. Once we had the results from 3 runs, after discarding an initial burner run for loading purposes, we took the average of average frame rates as well as the 99th percentile results from the run. We report our performance metrics as average frames per second and have moved away from the 1% and .1% reporting and are now using 99th percentile. For those uncertain of what the 99th percentile is, representing is easily explained as showing only 1 frame out of 100 is slower than this frame rate. Put another way, 99% of the frames will achieve at least this frame rate.

Test System