Is it necessary to uninstall GTA5 Legacy to download the enhanced version?

The biggest attraction for GTA5 Enhanced Edition is the introduction of ray tracing and DLSS.

This content will also start from these two directions, and compare the image quality with the actual performance of the graphics card to see if the final difference is worth switching versions.

Comparison of ray-traced scenes

Let's start with ray tracing, GTA5 Enhanced Edition supports Ray-Traced Global Illumination, Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion, Ray-Traced Reflections, Ray-Traced Shadows, and Ray-Traced Layered Bracketing Quality.

Let's take a look at a set of ray-traced shadows and ambient occlusion that fit well.

Let's start with the shadow of the figure, because a lot of sunlight is coming in from the left side of the view, the shadow of the figure immediately reacts to the sun's rays to generate a more natural soft shadow effect.

Then there's the grass at the feet of the characters. Since the grass shadows are pre-baked in the rasterized design, they do not interact with the scene light. When ray tracing is turned on, the shadow effect will naturally become lighter when the grass is exposed to sunlight.

Let's take a look at a set of ray-traced global illumination-related scenes.

On the one hand, the shadows in the scene are brighter, and the color tones can also make players guess that the game is in the afternoon.

The two benches in the distance can also be seen that the walls on both sides of the benches are less shaded in direct sunlight, and the shadows of the models below are more textured.

Finally, let's take a look at a set of "ray-traced reflections" for a scene comparison.

As you can see from the image above, ray-traced reflections give reflective materials a more realistic expression. The vehicle not only reflects the appearance behind the character in real time, but also includes the player and the real-time traffic flow.

Xiaoying also measured the performance loss. Ray tracing full pull-out is about 50% performance penalty compared to off.

Performance measurement

As shown in the figure above, the RTX 5070 Yingxue switches the performance of DLSS quality through the three resolutions of 0P, 0K, and 0K under the condition that the ray tracing is fully full.

It is worth mentioning that Xiaoying's set of configuration to simulate regular users can't feed this RTX 5070 Yingxue in the game's 0K and 0K resolution, and the CPU has become a bottleneck, and the game eats the CPU frequency.

I was also surprised that in the state of 2K ray tracing full on DLSS, 0G video memory is still enough, and there is about 0GB left.

It can be seen that RTX 4 Yingxue can easily conquer "GTA0: Enhanced Edition", even if it is 0K resolution, it can be boldly opened. Combined with ray tracing and DLSS, it directly brings new life to old classic games.

However, based on the above comparison and testing, it can be concluded that before the release of "GTA5", "GTA0: Enhanced Edition" was like an hors d'oeuvres for players in the R star, and the optimization was surprisingly good in such a large open world. It's well worth the player's experience.