Battlefield 3 Ultra: GTX 680 Benchmark Review

oakleyUK · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:01

If you are thinking of getting the new GTX 680 then you should watch this BF3 review, which basically shows you what FPS you can achieve with this card on Ultra.

I was surprised at much VRAM Battlefield 3 uses on just a single monitor.

GPU-Z Results
Core Clock: 1084.4
Memory Clock: 3004.7
Temperature [°C]: 75.0
Memory Used [MB]: 1975

Final8y · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:04

What's it like at 4XAA ?

oakleyUK · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:08

Final8y said:
What's it like at 4XAA ?

At 2 x MSAA, with 16 x Anisotropic.

RavenXXX2 · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:08

Very nice, actual off-screen gameplay showing FPS.

I think you could hold a rock solid 60FPS with occlusion off and no MSAA, for me game still looks as good at this IQ.

muggs · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:11

theres one option on high

Deception · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:13

RavenXXX2 said:
Very nice, actual off-screen gameplay showing FPS.

I think you could hold a rock solid 60FPS with occlusion off and no MSAA, for me game still looks as good at this IQ.

Agreed. Now to save my pennies (literally

). Looks like everyone who has one is happy with their purchase.

setter · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:14

Very seriously considering one of theese as well, nice to see that power use on them is pretty good.

oakleyUK · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:14

muggs said:
theres one option on high

That is the Antialiasing post, which can only be set to "High".

Deception · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:17

setter said:
Very seriously considering one of theese as well, nice to see that power use on them is pretty good.

Yea, me too. Sounds like it could be a good combo with my monitor and maybe 3D vision in the future.

ajones32 · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:39

Was more impressed at how well you played BF3

The 680 does seem to be a rather capable card.

muggs · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:48

oakleyUK said:
That is the Antialiasing post, which can only be set to "High".

true my bad

Sin_Chase · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:50

You don't need any post if using MSAA 4x tbh.

Gerard · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:53

Few dips into around the 30fps range in that vid.

Gregster · 25 Mar 2012 at 16:59

Is there anyway of recording over 60fps with fraps?

oakleyUK · 25 Mar 2012 at 17:01

gregster said:
Is there anyway of recording over 60fps with fraps?

You are able to change the FPS limit that Fraps records at, however you will always get a performance hit when running Fraps, even if its running on a different HDD.

Final8y · 25 Mar 2012 at 17:01

Sin_Chase said:
You don't need any post if using MSAA 4x tbh.

MSAA 4x is good but i still use post on low as well.

RavenXXX2 · 25 Mar 2012 at 17:29

When you get dips to 40 FPS this is mainly when you get explosions and smoke going off in your face, I found turning effects down to low stops the FPS drops. TBH you can't see the difference between low and ultra effects but you gain big time in FPS.

nalla · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:01

looks good, but im more interested in 2560 x 1600, and i dont think a single 680 is going to be as good as my current 2x 480 gtx's, so look slike ill have to save up for sli 680's i think.

opethdisciple · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:36

oakleyUK said:
If you are thinking of getting the new GTX 680 then you should watch this BF3 review, which basically shows you what FPS you can achieve with this card on Ultra.

I was surprised at much VRAM Battlefield 3 uses on just a single monitor.

What load out did you use for your engineer?

mrk · 25 Mar 2012 at 19:03

I think you could hold a rock solid 60FPS with occlusion off and no MSAA, for me game still looks as good at this IQ.

Erm you don't need a 680 for that.... With no MSAA and HBAO left on with Ultra at 1920x1200 my GTX570 SSC sticks to 60fps at all times (Vsync on). With 2xMSAA it's 50-60 nominal.