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What would I need to max Metro at 2560x1440?

Cythx

Cythx

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Hey, my question is as simple as that.

I've been looking at various sites that have benched Metro 2033 but they don't seem that helpful, their widely mixed results make me unsure of whether or not I should view one or another as a more accurate representation of what I should get, even if they seem to have set the same settings, on the same spec test bench.

Anandtech's bench:

Intel Core i7-920 @ 3.33GHz
Patriot Viper DDR3-1333 3 x 2GB (7-7-7-20)
AMD Radeon HD 6950
AMD Radeon HD 6950 CF
AMD Catalyst 10.10e

Techpowerup's bench:

Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.8 GHz
MB Mushkin Redline DDR3-12800 3 x 2 GB (8-7-7-16)
AMD Radeon HD 6950
AMD Radeon HD 6950 CF
Catalyst 10.11

So they look similiar enough right? And Techpowerup should, at least, be a bit faster because of the huge CPU OC.

However their results for Metro 2033 seem odd to me.

Anandtech, which has the slower setup gets these:

2560x1600 - DX11 Very High Quality + AAA / x16 AF

23.5 FPS for 1 6950
41.5 FPS for 2 6950

Techpowerup

2560x1600 - DX11 Very High Quality + NO ANTI ALIAS / x16 AF

14 FPS for 1 6950
25.5 FPS for 2 6950

So, why is the slower setup, with no anti alias, getting 60% more FPS?

I find this annoying as I use these benchmarks to decide what card I'll want if I want to max out all the games I will be playing now and in the future.

edit: Along with maxing out the settings (ie, 2560x1440, dx11, at least aaa or x4 msaa) I'd like at least 33-35 fps average
 
GTX580 Tri-SLI might just about do it, or perhaps even quad-fired 6970's.

Seriously, a single GTX580 will be playable but it won't be really smooth at max settings.
 
If you want to max out Metro 2033. Well it prefers Nvidia cards, so you might want to get 570 SLI or 470 SLI and stick some after market coolers on them. But this wont max out Metro 2033 at that resolution, you will have to turn off some useless features, HBAO anyone? :L

The bottom set of benchmarks look dodgy. Anandtech are very reliable so i would go with there results over the Techpowerup ones.
 
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Did you post a pic? I'm at school and usually can't see pictures posted on this forum.

I'm hoping 6950 CF or 570 SLI will run what I want, do you guys think so?

My resolution is not quite 2560x1600 and I will be overclocking them, along with more mature drivers. I'm hoping this would be the case?

And no I am not limited to AMD, I would take nvidia too, but I like the print point of the 6950, the print point of a 6970 is a last resort
 
Cythx said:
Did you post a pic? I'm at school and usually can't see pictures posted on this forum.

I'm hoping 6950 CF or 570 SLI will run what I want, do you guys think so?

My resolution is not quite 2560x1600 and I will be overclocking them, along with more mature drivers. I'm hoping this would be the case?

And no I am not limited to AMD, I would take nvidia too, but I like the print point of the 6950, the print point of a 6970 is a last resort
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570 SLI then.

You wont be able to put everything on full blast with 4x AA. Maybe something like High graphics settings None or 2x AA and HBAO off.
 
Cythx said:
Thanks (: is the 'Advanced PhysX' in Metro 2033 only available for nvidia cards?
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PhysX is Nvidia only in general. Its not really that great in Metro 2033 but Metro 2033 plays better on Nvidia cards.

If you want to test out PhysX then get Batman Arkham Asylum.
 
Iirc 'Depth of Field' is one of the frame rate killers. Turn that off, and you have quite a playable game indeed if you had say something like a 470 sli for example.

To max it out totally I think you're looking at 570 / 580 tri sli, not totally sure even then but it should be darn close at the worst.
 
If your budget is ~£300 the GTX570 is best. For ~£400 GTX580, or 2x GTX470's, ~£500 2x 69x0''s or 2x 570's.

I would opt for a single 570 which leaves room for a 2nd if you need the upgrade later.
 
Even tri-sli will not be ale to max the game at the OP's stated res. On my 480sli setup if I turn everything to max I run out of VRAM at only 1920x1200, it will run fine at 2560x1600 if I drop the ingame AA down.
 
wouldnt he be better of with a 6970 with 2gb ram for that game, as i believe the extra ram really helps at that res, otherwise it would deffo be a 580 or 2x470's, havent got that game myself so cant bench to let you know how my sli 480's perform at that res.
 
It will run it but not 6950 cf or 570 sli will run it close to maxxed out (with DOF off) but u will still see dips as low as 11fps in some areas (someone posted their 580 sli benchmarks in the official 580 thread). See towards the bottom of this page - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18205433&page=30

As to the review sites' differing figures, annoyingly not all review sites use the ingame benchmark so results vary depending on where in the game they did the test.
 
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