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Issue #48 (137)

What's new:

• Retested all graphics cards with NVIDIA Drivers 290.36 and AMD CATALYST 11.12.
• Added test results of AMD Radeon HD 7970.
• Archived test results of the overclocked AMD Radeon HD 6950.

Testbed configuration

• Intel Core i7-975 3340 MHz CPU
• ASUS P6T Deluxe motherboard on the Intel X58 chipset
• 6GB of 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM from Corsair
• WD Caviar SE WD1600JD 160GB SATA HDD
• Tagan TG900-BZ 900W PSU
• Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, DirectX 11
• 30" Dell 3007WFP monitor
• NVIDIA Drivers 290.36
• AMD CATALYST 11.12

Benchmarks

• Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft) — DirectX 10.0, Shaders 4.0 (HDR), built-in benchmarking utility (the Middle level), maximum settings.
• CRYSIS Warhead (Crytek/EA) — Cargo, DirectX 10.0, Shaders 4.0, Very High settings, batch file, timedemo available by e-mail request.
• Colin McRae: DiRT 2 (Codemasters) — DirectX 10.0/11.0, Ultra High settings, run as follows: "dirt2.exe -benchmark example_benchmark.xml".
• Metro 2033 (4A Games/THQ) — DirectX 11.0, Super High settings, PhysX disabled, run from in game.
• Just Cause 2 (Avalanche Studios/Eidos Interactive) — DirectX 11.0, Super High settings, run from in game.
• Aliens vs. Predator (Rebellion/SEGA) — DirectX 11.0, Shaders 5.0, Very High settings, run from in game.
• F1 2010 (Codemasters) — DirectX 11.0, Ultra High settings, run as follows: "formulaone.exe -benchmark example_benchmark.xml". Game provided by NVIDIA.
• Tropics Benchmark 1.3 (Unigine) — DirectX 10.0, High settings.
• Heaven Benchmark 2.0 (Unigine) — DirectX 11.0, High settings.
• 3DMark 11 (FutureMark) — DirectX 11.0, Performance settings.

We'd like to thank Unigine for helping us set up their 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 6750 1024MB 128-bit GDDR5 (700/700/4600 MHz)
4. AMD Radeon HD 6770 1024MB 128-bit GDDR5 (850/850/4800 MHz)
5. AMD Radeon HD 6790 1024MB 256-bit GDDR5 (840/840/4200 MHz)
6. AMD Radeon HD 6850 1024MB 256-bit GDDR5 (775/775/4000 MHz)
7. AMD Radeon HD 6870 1024MB 256-bit GDDR5 (900/900/4200 MHz)
8. AMD Radeon HD 6950 1024MB 256-bit GDDR5 (800/800/5000 MHz)
9. AMD Radeon HD 6950 2048MB 256-bit GDDR5 (800/800/5000 MHz)
10. AMD Radeon HD 6970 2048MB 256-bit GDDR5 (880/880/5500 MHz)
11. AMD Radeon HD 7970 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5 (925/925/5500 MHz)
12. AMD Radeon HD 6990 2x2048MB 2x256-bit GDDR5 (830/830/5000 MHz)
13. AMD Radeon HD 6990 2x2048MB 2x256-bit GDDR5 (880/880/5000 MHz)
14. NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 1024MB 128-bit SDDR3 (700/1400/1600 MHz)
15. NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 1024MB 128-bit GDDR3 (810/1620/1800 MHz)
16. NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1024MB 128-bit GDDR3 (783/1566/1400 MHz)
17. NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1024MB 128-bit GDDR5 (783/1566/3600 MHz)
18. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB 192-bit GDDR5 (920/1840/4100 MHz)
19. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB 256-bit GDDR5 (675/1350/3600 MHz)
20. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1024MB 256-bit GDDR5 (810/1620/4000 MHz)
21. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB 256-bit GDDR5 (822/1644/4000 MHz)
22. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 (732/1464/3800 MHz)
23. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 (732/1464/3800 MHz)
24. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 (775/1550/4000 MHz)
25. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5 (783/1566/4040 MHz)
26. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 2x1536MB 2x384-bit GDDR5 (607/1215/3400 MHz)

Archived graphics cards

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