Star Wars: Squadrons

Star Wars: Squadrons is a space combat game developed by Motive Studios and published by Electronic Arts on October 2, 2020.

The game is made using Frostbite 3 engine and features extensive support for VR on all platforms where there are VR options.

PC performance benchmarks
The game doesn't feature a built-in performance benchmark. As a result all performance reviews are done manually and can't be directly compared.

Key performance takeaways

 * The game's performance is very high mostly because of its focus on 60 fps target on 8th generation of consoles and VR support.
 * The game is able to hit 240 fps even on a 4C/4T CPU.
 * The game is using less than 6GB of VRAM in 4K resolution. GPUs with 3GB of VRAM seem to have no issues at running the game.

Main console versions characteristics

 * The game is using a form of resolution reconstruction and dynamic resolution scaling on all consoles.
 * PS VR maximum resolutions are 960x540 on PS4 and 960x1080 on PS4Pro.
 * Update 3.0 for the game which was released on November 25, 2020 has added enhanced support for 9th generation of consoles.
 * Since this update the game has two modes on Xbox Series S/X: prioritize enhanced visuals or enhanced performance.
 * Playstation 5 got improvements in lighting with this update.



* – As of update 3.0 the game is running in enhanced backwards compatibility mode on 9th generation of consoles.