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Issue #65 (154)

What's new:

• Added the test results in BioShock Infinite and Metro: Last Light.
• Archived the test results in Total War: Shogun 2 and DiRT Showdown.
• Retested all graphics cards with the new drivers.

Testbed configuration

• 2 x Intel Core i7-3960X CPU overclocked to 4 GHz,
• Hydro Series H100i Extreme Performance CPU Cooler,
• Intel Thermal Solution RTS2011LC,
• ASUS Sabertooth X79 motherboard on the Intel X79 chipset,
• MSI X79A-GD45(8D) motherboard on the Intel X79 chipset,
• 16GB Corsair Vengeance CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 1600 MHz DDR3,
• 3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 SATA2 HDD,
• 1TB WD Caviar Blue WD10EZEX SATA2 HDD,
• 2 x Corsair Neutron SSD CSSD-N120GB3-BK,
• 2 x Corsair CMPSU-1200AXEU 1200W PSU,
• Corsair Obsidian 800D full-tower case,
• Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, DirectX 11,
• 30" Dell UltraSharp U3011 monitor,
• NVIDIA Drivers 326.80,
• AMD CATALYST 13.8beta.

Benchmarks

• 3DMark FireStrike (2013) (FutureMark) — DirectX 11.0, Performance settings.
• Aliens vs. Predator (Rebellion/SEGA) — DirectX 11.0, Shaders 5.0, Very High settings, run from in game.
• BioShock Infinite (Irrational Games/2K Games) — DirectX 11.0, built-in benchmark, maximum quality settings.
• Crysis 2 Maximum Edition (Crytek/EA) — DirectX 11.0, Very High settings, Central Park level, launched with the Adrenaline Crysis 2 Benchmark Tool.
• Hard Reset (Flying Wild Hog) — DirectX 10.0, built-in benchmark, maximum quality settings.
• Heaven Benchmark 2.0 (Unigine) — DirectX 11.0, High settings.
• Metro 2033 (4A Games/THQ) — DirectX 11.0, Super High settings, PhysX disabled, run from in game.
• Metro: Last Light (4A Games/Deep Silver) — DirectX 11.0, built-in benchmark, Super High settings, PhysX disabled.
• Nexuiz (Illfonic/THQ) — DirectX 11.0, built-in benchmark, maximum quality settings.
• Sleeping Dogs (United Front Games/Square Enix) — DirectX 11.0, built-in benchmark, maximum quality settings.
• Valley Benchmark (Unigine) — DirectX 11.0, Maximum settings.

We'd like to thank Unigine for helping us set up their benchmarks, NVIDIA and AMD for providing us with some of the benchmarks.

Graphics cards

In the brackets are ROP/TMU clock rate, shader unit clock rate, effective memory clock rate.

1. AMD Radeon HD 6570 1024MB 128-bit GDDR3 (650/650/2000 MHz)
2. AMD Radeon HD 6670 1024MB 128-bit GDDR5 (800/800/4000 MHz)
3. AMD Radeon HD 7730 1024MB 128-bit GDDR5 (800/800/4500 MHz)
4. AMD Radeon HD 7750 1024MB 128-bit GDDR5 (880/880/4500 MHz)
5. AMD Radeon HD 7770 1024MB 128-bit GDDR5 (1000/1000/4500 MHz)
6. AMD Radeon HD 7790 1024MB 128-bit GDDR5 (1000/1000/6000 MHz)
7. AMD Radeon HD 7790 1024MB 128-bit GDDR5 (o/c 1075/1075/6600 MHz)
8. AMD Radeon HD 7850 1024MB 256-bit GDDR5 (860/860/4800 MHz)
9. AMD Radeon HD 7850 2048MB 256-bit GDDR5 (860/860/4800 MHz)
10. AMD Radeon HD 7850 2048MB 256-bit GDDR5 (o/c 1020/1020/5600 MHz)
11. AMD Radeon HD 7870 2048MB 256-bit GDDR5 (1000/1000/4800 MHz)
12. AMD Radeon HD 7870 2048MB 256-bit GDDR5 (975/975/6000 MHz)
13. AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5 (850/850/5000 MHz)
14. AMD Radeon HD 7970 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5 (925/925/5500 MHz)
15. AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5 (1050/1050/6000 MHz)
16. AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5 (o/c 1180/1180/6000 MHz)
17. AMD Radeon HD 7990 2x3072MB 2x384-bit GDDR5 (1000/1000/6000 MHz)
18. ASUS Ares II (CrossFire Radeon HD 7970 GHz) 2x3072MB 2x384-bit GDDR5 (1100/1100/6600 MHz)
19. 2x ASUS Ares II (CrossFirex4 Radeon HD 7970 GHz) 4x3072MB 4x384-bit GDDR5 (1100/1100/6600 MHz)
20. NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 2048MB 128-bit GDDR3 (800/1600/1334 MHz)
21. NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 2048MB 128-bit GDDR3 (900/900/1782 MHz)
22. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB 128-bit GDDR5 (1058/1058/5000 MHz)
23. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB 192-bit GDDR5 (920/1840/4100 MHz)
24. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2048MB 128-bit GDDR5 (925/925/5400 MHz)
25. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 2048MB 192-bit GDDR5 (980-1033/6000 MHz)
26. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2048MB 192-bit GDDR5 (993-1053/6000 MHz)
27. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2048MB 192-bit GDDR5 (915-1015/6000 MHz)
28. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB 256-bit GDDR5 (980-1033/6000 MHz)
29. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB 256-bit GDDR5 (915-1015/6000 MHz)
30. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB 256-bit GDDR5 (1000-1100/6000 MHz)
31. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4096MB 256-bit GDDR5 (1071-1200/6000 MHz)
32. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB 256-bit GDDR5 (1046-1075/7000 MHz)
33. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 2x2048MB 2x256-bit GDDR5 (915-1019/6000 MHz)
34. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 SLI 2x2048MB 2x256-bit GDDR5 (1000-1100/6000 MHz)
35. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5 (863-900/6000 MHz)
36. NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan 6144MB 384-bit GDDR5 (837-876/6000 MHz)

Archived graphics cards

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