Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered

Hardware reviewers treat Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered as a useful benchmark because it is one of the strongest showcases of ray tracing to date while still scaling across a huge range of hardware. TechSpot (Hardware Unboxed) benchmarked 43 current and previous-generation GPUs across 1080p, 1440p and 4K using medium and very high presets plus a ray tracing configuration, and concluded the game runs smoothly and stutter-free even though it is demanding, calling it 'one of the best showcases of ray tracing effects so far.'

The game is notable for being heavily CPU-limited at high frame rates, which makes it valuable for exposing platform bottlenecks. TechSpot observed high-end GPUs hitting a system bottleneck well below 4K (Radeon parts capping around 160 fps at 1080p medium and Nvidia around 178 fps) and saw CPU utilization peak near 70% even on a Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Tom's Hardware likewise reported it 'couldn't do better than about 160 fps' at 1080p medium even with the fastest cards, noting that lowering quality often fails to raise frame rates because the CPU, not the GPU, is the limit.

Ray-traced reflections carry a very large, measurable performance cost, which reviewers use to compare RT hardware between vendors. Tom's Hardware measured roughly a 54% drop on Nvidia and about 49.5% on AMD at 1080p when enabling maxed ray-traced reflections, and both outlets highlight that Nvidia GPUs punch above their usual weight class here (the RTX 3070 outpacing the normally comparable RX 6750 XT), since it is an Nvidia-promoted title with DLSS support alongside FSR 2.0 and Insomniac's IGTI upscaling.

A practical caveat noted by both sources is that the game has no built-in benchmark, so reviewers manually record frametimes while web-slinging or running a street-level pass through the city; TechSpot chose a street-level route that was 'just as demanding as swinging from buildings.' The game also scales down gracefully (Tom's Hardware ran it on a 2GB GTX 1050) and is not especially VRAM-hungry, with 6GB reported as enough for the Very High texture setting and 16GB of system RAM sufficient.