Most demanding game overall ? (Graphics wise)

TheELF

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Doesn't matter, use DSR on nvidia to run your game at like 2 or 3 times the normal resolution and every game will be the most demanding one.
Possibly AMD has something similar if you care to search for it.
 

[DHT]Osiris

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I was gonna say, either Flight Sim 2020, total war: warhammer 2 (can grind my 1080ti down pretty good at 1440p), or some random poorly coded game. Bonus points if it has an RTX option on a non-RTX card.
 

CP5670

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Many games these days run poorly at the max settings but run much better at settings one step down ("high" instead of "ultra") while looking barely any different. I can still run most things fine on my 1080Ti at 4K like this.
 

BFG10K

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In videos with afterburner running you can see the GPU usage being pretty low in general.
GPU usage is low because the game has a ton of draw calls while running under DX11. But this is the best looking game currently available, especially for lighting/reflections, and it doesn't even use ray tracing.
 

[DHT]Osiris

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Oh, I'll give a vote for CPU demand specifically, Dwarf Fortress. The eventual fate of all fortresses is CPU death, if you don't die to something else first.