Metro Exodus PC performance review: the best settings for 60fps

Metro Exodus launched last week to much elation from Nvidia RTX Turing owners. 4A Games’ most recent post-apocalyptic trudge through mutated, desolate hell was the first ray tracing-friendly title to launch in nearly three months. But, while that’s all well and good for owners of the latest and greatest - check out our Metro Exodus RTX PC performance review here - what about gamers holding fast to the more mainstream, and still immensely popular, Nvidia GTX 1060 and AMD RX 580 graphics cards? The GTX 1060 is still the most popular graphics card on the Steam Hardware Survey by a decent margin. Despite its recent deposition at the hands of the GTX 1660 Ti, this card is still the de facto mainstream GPU from the green team. And as for team Radeon, the RX 580 is cheaper than ever, and its high performance per dollar can’t be beat. Metro Exodus’ vast tundra is a vision of macabre beauty, however. From the icy, crumbling civilisation has-been that is post-apocalyptic Moscow in winter, to the debilitating desert riddled with sand storms in summer, Metro is an unforgiving title for both mainstream Pascal and Polaris cards.