Eve Online
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1080p performance
| GPU | low | medium | high | ultra |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 5090 | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps |
| RTX 4090 | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps |
| RX 7900 XTX | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps |
| RTX 5080 | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps |
| RTX 4080 Super | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps |
| RTX 4070 Ti | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps |
| RTX 4070 | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps | 858 fps |
| RX 7800 XT | 999 fps | 999 fps | 931 fps | 756 fps |
| RTX 3080 | 999 fps | 999 fps | 906 fps | 736 fps |
| RTX 4060 Ti | 999 fps | 999 fps | 855 fps | 695 fps |
| RTX 3070 | 999 fps | 975 fps | 780 fps | 634 fps |
| RTX 4060 | 999 fps | 881 fps | 704 fps | 572 fps |
| RTX 3060 | 943 fps | 755 fps | 604 fps | 491 fps |
| GTX 1660 Super | 684 fps | 547 fps | 438 fps | 356 fps |
1440p performance
| GPU | low | medium | high | ultra |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 5090 | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps |
| RTX 4090 | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps |
| RX 7900 XTX | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps |
| RTX 5080 | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps |
| RTX 4080 Super | 999 fps | 999 fps | 999 fps | 950 fps |
| RTX 4070 Ti | 999 fps | 999 fps | 925 fps | 751 fps |
| RTX 4070 | 999 fps | 991 fps | 792 fps | 644 fps |
| RX 7800 XT | 999 fps | 873 fps | 698 fps | 567 fps |
| RTX 3080 | 999 fps | 849 fps | 679 fps | 552 fps |
| RTX 4060 Ti | 999 fps | 802 fps | 642 fps | 521 fps |
| RTX 3070 | 914 fps | 731 fps | 585 fps | 475 fps |
| RTX 4060 | 825 fps | 660 fps | 528 fps | 429 fps |
| RTX 3060 | 708 fps | 566 fps | 453 fps | 368 fps |
| GTX 1660 Super | 513 fps | 410 fps | 328 fps | 267 fps |
4K performance
| GPU | low | medium | high | ultra |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 5090 | 999 fps | 999 fps | 845 fps | 687 fps |
| RTX 4090 | 999 fps | 981 fps | 785 fps | 638 fps |
| RX 7900 XTX | 999 fps | 881 fps | 704 fps | 572 fps |
| RTX 5080 | 999 fps | 830 fps | 664 fps | 540 fps |
| RTX 4080 Super | 975 fps | 780 fps | 624 fps | 507 fps |
| RTX 4070 Ti | 770 fps | 616 fps | 493 fps | 401 fps |
| RTX 4070 | 660 fps | 528 fps | 423 fps | 343 fps |
| RX 7800 XT | 582 fps | 465 fps | 372 fps | 303 fps |
| RTX 3080 | 566 fps | 453 fps | 362 fps | 294 fps |
| RTX 4060 Ti | 535 fps | 428 fps | 342 fps | 278 fps |
| RTX 3070 | 487 fps | 390 fps | 312 fps | 253 fps |
| RTX 4060 | 440 fps | 352 fps | 282 fps | 229 fps |
| RTX 3060 | 377 fps | 302 fps | 242 fps | 196 fps |
| GTX 1660 Super | 274 fps | 219 fps | 175 fps | 142 fps |
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Eve Online, released in 2003, is a free-to-play sci-fi MMORPG sandbox that stands out for its player-driven economy and large-scale strategic warfare. Players can pursue diverse activities including combat, exploration, industry, and trading across an expansive open world. The game's reputation for hosting thousands of players in simultaneous battles makes it a unique entry in the MMO space strategy genre.
Eve Online is relatively accessible from a PC performance perspective compared to modern AAA titles. You can run it smoothly on mid-range hardware, with even older GPUs capable of delivering solid FPS at moderate graphics settings. The game requires a minimum of 4 GB RAM and scales well across different configurations, making it easy to benchmark performance on various systems. Most modern GPUs will handle 60+ FPS at 1080p with high settings, though CPU matters more here than in graphics-heavy games.
With a respectable 78/100 rating, Eve Online is worth trying if you're interested in strategic MMOs and competitive sandbox gameplay. The free-to-play model makes it a low-risk way to experience one of gaming's most ambitious online worlds.
Performance profile
Released in May 2003, Eve Online comes from the DirectX 9 era. Even the cheapest modern discrete GPU crushes it at maxed-out settings; the only real bottleneck today is CPU single-thread speed on older titles that were never multi-threaded.
As a strategy title, Eve Online is typically CPU-bound rather than GPU-bound — single-thread CPU performance dictates framerate during large-scale battles, end-game saves and late-game AI turns. A fast modern 6-core will help more than a GPU upgrade.
Extremely light — Eve Online runs at 60 FPS 1080p on any integrated GPU (Intel Iris Xe, AMD Radeon Graphics) or a decade-old discrete card like the GTX 1050. A current-gen RTX 4060 pushes 4K Ultra without effort.
Storyline
Set more than 21,000 years in the future, the background story of Eve Online explains that humanity, having used up most of Earth's resources through centuries of explosive population growth, began colonizing the rest of the Milky Way. As on Earth, this expansion also led to competition and fighting over available resources, but everything changed with the discovery of a natural wormhole leading to an unexplored galaxy subsequently dubbed "New Eden." Dozens of colonies were founded, and a structure, a gate of sorts (which bears the inscription "EVE" on the New Eden side), was built to stabilize the wormhole that linked the colonies of New Eden with the rest of human civilization. However, when the wormhole unexpectedly collapsed, it destroyed the gate as well as the connection between the colonies of New Eden and the Milky Way. Cut off from the rest of humanity and supplies from Earth, the colonies of New Eden were left starving and disconnected from one another; many died out entirely. Over the millennia the descendants of the surviving colonists managed to rebuild their own societies, but by this time the memories and knowledge of humanity's origins, of Earth and the Milky Way galaxy, as well as the history of the settling of New Eden, was lost; what little information that survived transmission over the generations was misunderstood, lost in translation, and/or consigned to mythology. Five major distinct societies rose to prominence from the surviving colonies, each growing into interstellar spaceflight-capable civilizations. The states based around these societies make up the five major factions in Eve Online: the Amarr Empire, the Caldari State, the Gallente Federation, the Minmatar Republic and the Jove Directorate.
