Horizon Zero Dawn

Horizon Zero Dawn is an action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment on February 28, 2017 on Playstation 4. The game was also released on Windows on August 7, 2020.

The game is built on Guerrilla Games proprietary Decima engine and is using DirectX 12 API on PC.

PC performance benchmarks
The game was launched on PC in partnership with AMD. The game has a built-in performance benchmark.

Key performance takeaways

 * Launch version of the game had numerous technical and performance issues.
 * Most of them has been resolved with patches.
 * With the release of patch 1.10 the developer has shifted its focus onto their future new game.

Console versions comparison
The game is a Playstation exclusive.

Main console versions characteristics

 * The game originally had only one rendering mode on PS4Pro - high resolution - but was later updated with a second option - performance.
 * The game is using advanced checkerboarding resolution reconstruction on PS4Pro when running in high resolution mode.
 * Thus its actual rendering resolution in this mode is a half of target.