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Battlefield 6 has well and truly arrived, and now that the dust is settling on its launch, I think people are starting to realise that a game this advanced, action-packed, and brimming with content takes some serious heat to run on the hardware side of things. It’s definitely optimised by today’s AAA standards, but there’s a lot of hardware-intensive stuff that means you might not currently be getting the smoothest performance in it with older generations of graphics cards.
As always, a way to stem that issue is to use some modern-day upscaling wizardry, and with DLSS 4’s Multi Frame Generation in your back pocket, games like this are going to run like a dream. For that reason, PCSpecialist, one of the most prolific PC building brands in the UK, supplied me with a prebuilt rig to do some experimental Battlefield 6 gameplay with, equipped with an RTX 5070 card, perfect for enhancing my gameplay with the latest RTX technologies.
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I find that there’s still a lot of stigma and misinformation about prebuilt PCs these days versus building your own, but PCSpecialist is one of those brands that’s proving with action that what you hear in PC building subreddits isn’t always the most reliable information.
From the moment I received confirmation that PCSpecialist was working on my order, I felt like I was clued into exactly what was happening. Whether you order one of this brand’s custom builds or one of its pre-configured Next Day PCs, you have full control over what parts are going into your build - and you’re also kept in the loop with exactly how the process of assembling it and sending it out to you is going.
Seriously, I was even emailed to offer me a 360 image of the computer once it’d been assembled to get a preview before I received it - I felt as though I was being given excellent customer service, which is so often lacking in today’s gaming hardware markets, as everything is reduced to online transactions.
The PC arrived supremely well packaged. It comes with protective padding inside the PC to prevent any of your parts from coming unseated from the motherboard, and setup is a breeze thanks to the handy user manuals. Plus, Windows comes pre-installed, so all you really have to do is download the games you want to start playing.
PCSpecialist has an amazing selection of parts to choose from - including the stunning Fractal Design North case my testing sample was housed in. Headlining this rig, however, is the Nvidia RTX 5070, the middle-child of Nvidia’s latest graphics card family, and one that’s packing some serious upscaling power for its price.
Battlefield 6 & What DLSS can do for you
I remember watching Beta footage from Battlefield 6 when EA had assembled some of the biggest content creators and journalists on the planet to play a pre-release build, and the GPU they were all supplied with at the event was the RTX 5070. For that reason, I was expecting smooth gameplay and excellent graphics when I launched the current version of the game, and I was right to.
Nvidia has packed its latest family of graphics cards with GDDR7 VRAM, its ingenious Blackwell architecture, and its most up-to-date recipe for AI upscaling, DLSS4. If you’re happy to let DLSS do some heavy lifting for you, the 5070 is the perfect middle ground between price and performance, even in demanding 4K games. That’s especially thanks to the newest DLSS weapon, Multi Frame Generation.
Not only does this use Nvidia’s existing method of upscaling video game graphics, but it advances things so that the GPU generates additional frames between the ones on your screen. That means, you’re able to generate an incredible number of frames without a massive compromise of any of your favourite games’ visual quality.
Multi Frame Generation (MFG) in Battlefield 6, for example, gives you the option of generating 2, 3, and 4 times, and on top of the existing levels of DLSS like Quality, Balanced, and Performance, that gives you so many tools to find the frame rate/visuals mix that you and your setup benefit from the most.
To really test out the RTX 5070 rig’s abilities, I decided to run some benchmark tests. I loaded into two different match types in multiplayer, boosted the settings up to their maximum at 4K resolution, and toggled through the DLSS and MFG options to see what kind of a boost you could expect from one of these gaming PCs.
Test 1
To begin with, I wanted to see how Battlefield 6 would perform on an RTX 5070 in some of its fastest-paced environments. I set the game’s custom matchmaking to Domination and Team Deathmatch lobbies exclusively on the Manhattan Bridge map.
This is one of the game’s best arenas in my opinion, because there are so many tight corners and pinch-points that are natural areas for close-quarters combat, whether you’re attacking or defending. For that reason, speedy performance from your hardware is everything, because the slightest lag or reflex can make all the difference.
I began playing with 4K, maxed-out settings, and an average frame rate of 49fps, showing just how technically demanding the game is - remember this is running with state-of-the-art technologies that are less than a year old. I toggled through some DLSS options next, finding that to my eye, the Balanced option was the best mixture of performance without a big compromise of visual fidelity. Playing the same map, I saw a jump from that one setting to an average frame rate of 69fps, which is already above the standard performance of a modern-day console - and this PC was running with much higher settings than the PS5 or Xbox Series X.
Then I switched frame generation on, and that’s when things really started to get a bit crazy. Just with it set to 2x, the average frame rate went up to 110fps, and this really started to prove its worth in gameplay. I immediately got a killstreak of 5, capturing a point singlehandedly in the process. While the leap in smoothness is really noticeable, what surprised me is the lack of visual dips when frame generation is turned on. There’s nothing immediately obvious that shows you’re using a massive upscaling trick, and thanks to Nvidia’s Reflex technology, you don’t even feel input latency, which is a massive bonus in a game like Battlefield.
I knew the RTX 5070 had more to give, so I cranked Frame Generation up to 3x, and saw an FPS of 156, which surpassed my display’s 144Hz limit. Turning things up even further, FG x4 saw an average frame rate of 196, and at times peaked as high as 200fps. That’s absolutely ludicrous for playing a game this demanding at 4K, maximum settings - especially when most 4K displays max out well below that refresh rate.
Test 2
For test 2, I wanted to see how the RTX 5070 would handle more demanding maps, environments, and scenarios, and there are no better tests for that in Battlefield 6 than Conquest matches on one of the game’s larger maps like New Sobek City. With so many towers in this map ready to be destroyed at an explosive second’s notice, and all the vehicles running around and players going about their objectives, there’s a lot of space and even more calculations for the graphics card to figure out. I cranked up the settings again, and this time, we started at a baseline of 41fps. Remember, this is with a rather unrealistic 4K scenario with every single setting in the game turned up to the max.
With DLSS set to Balanced without any frame generation, I saw a boost of up to 56fps. If I wanted more, I could have used the Performance option, but I wanted to keep both tests equal, and I didn’t want to lose any of Battlefield 6’s excellent graphical quality. I turned on frame generation, and I saw an immediate, almost doubling of the frame rate.
108fps would probably be enough of an improvement for anyone who was used to playing on a console at 60Hz, but by turning up to FG x3, I got an excellent score of 135fps, which is a solid performance level for a game like this on a massive map. FG x4 peaked to an average of 148fps, and again, thanks to Nvidia Reflex, I didn’t suffer from latency issues either.
Every sniper shot, every track of an enemy as I was aiming, every peek from behind cover was so much easier to handle with my upscaled frames, especially on a larger map like this with much higher stakes in terms of the scoring.
What settings would work for you?
Now, it must be said that I personally wouldn’t recommend using maximum settings like I have here, and so keep in mind that these tests are somewhat unrealistic. Even if you don’t want to toggle every granular setting in the graphics menu to your liking, you can probably turn down a few that don’t really make a difference to your eye, and then see what frame rate you get. If you aren’t playing in 4K, you could see even higher numbers than I have here. As powerful as the 5070 is at 4K, it’s even better at 1440p.
After you’ve sorted the settings you care about the most, toggle DLSS and see what Frame Generation level is right for you. I’d personally recommend keeping DLSS to Balanced and Quality to prevent visual leakage, especially if Multi Frame Generation is there to do some of the heavy lifting for you. Either way, this GPU has some serious power to take advantage of.
Summing up
From my experience with just one of its RTX 5070 PCs, I think PCSpecialist’s 50 Series gaming PCs are absolutely worth considering. If you’d like to check out one of their customisable pre-built PCs, you can find them here.
Not everyone wants to root around in settings menus for an hour before playing their games, and with so many DLSS tricks up their sleeve, PCSpecialist’s machines harnessing the latest Nvidia architecture feels like a cheat code for getting both amazing performance and enhancing your gameplay experience to the maximum.
