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Early Nioh 3 PC tests are starting to show up and they’re surprisingly clean

February 3, 2026
Author: Vlad Phigod
3 min read

The Nioh 3 PC demo is already being put through its paces, and early benchmarks suggest Team Ninja has delivered one of its most polished PC releases to date.

The free Nioh 3 demo only just landed on Steam, and the usual wave of performance testing followed almost immediately. What’s different this time is the tone of the results. Instead of the familiar complaints about stutter or uneven frame pacing, early tests suggest something far less dramatic.

The game simply runs well.

One of the first detailed looks came from DSOGaming, which tested the demo on a system built around a Ryzen 9 7950X3D, an RTX 5090, and 32 GB of RAM. According to their testing, Nioh 3 shows none of the typical PC launch issues. No shader compilation stutter. No asset streaming spikes. Input feels native, not patched in after the fact.

That alone already puts it ahead of many recent releases.

Frame rate behavior is straightforward. Nioh 3 ships with a 120 fps cap, and on an RTX 5090 the game hits that ceiling without effort at 1080p and 1440p, even with all visual settings maxed out. At 4K, the numbers come down to earth, averaging around 94 fps, with drops into the high-70s during heavier scenes. Nothing unexpected, and more importantly, nothing erratic.

Other tests floating around back that up.

YouTube channel MxBenchmarkPC tried the demo on an RTX 5070. At native 1440p, the card holds a stable 60 fps. Push the resolution to 4K, enable DLSS 4.5 Balanced, and the same frame rate remains achievable. It’s not flashy, but it’s predictable and predictability is usually the first thing missing in PC ports.

AMD hardware doesn’t appear to be struggling either. Bang4BuckPC Gamer ran Nioh 3 on a Radeon RX 7900 XTX with graphics settings maxed out and FSR 3.1 set to Quality. In that setup, performance lands in the 80–90 fps range. No obvious spikes, no unexplained drops.

What stands out isn’t any single number. It’s the absence of problems. No shader-related hitching. No traversal stutter. No sudden frame-time chaos when effects pile up. For a modern action RPG – even in demo form that’s still unusual.

It’s early, and demos don’t always tell the full story. But if the final release behaves the same way, Nioh 3 may end up being remembered less for its benchmarks and more for how uneventful its PC performance turned out to be.

Sources: DSOGaming, MxBenchmarkPC (YouTube), Bang4BuckPC Gamer (YouTube)