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7970 X 680 @ 2560 X 1600 BF3

1kiwi

1kiwi

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Hi all,

As Locky and I are running these cards we decided to run a small test on Caspian Border. Settings were as follows:

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EDIT: As requested, a bench for a longer time. Where the GTX680 goes flat, it's when I have died and Locky is still alive.

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Seems to me like the gtx 680 is consistently hitting higher fps than the 7970, while the latter seems to dip lower way more often. But this is just stating the obvious, from what you have posted.
 
Battlefield 3 doesn't make for a very useful comparison test on its own being a console game and disliked by many including me. Dirt 3, Crysis2 and Skyrim (no mods) are just as useless.


Are there any non-biased niche games such as Egosoft's X-Rebirth, the Anno series, various RTS, Skyrim with heavy mods, that someone could run a comparison on? edit: Crysis (not Crysis 2 which is crap) would be nice too.
 
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There are a lot of places where the frame rate of the GTX 680 peaks and the HD 7970 dips at the same time.

That seems quite odd.

Are those results synchronised?
 
Results are just for comparison guys. Both of us have owned nvidia/ati cards so we have no angle here. We just wanted to replicate multilayer conditions as much as possible, benching as high as we could.
 
PanMaster said:
Battlefield 3 doesn't make for a very useful comparison test on its own being a console game and disliked by many including me. Dirt 3, Crysis2 and Skyrim (no mods) are just as useless.


Are there any non-biased niche games such as Egosoft's X-Rebirth, the Anno series, various RTS, Skyrim with heavy mods, that someone could run a comparison on? edit: Crysis (not Crysis 2 which is crap) would be nice too.
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The issue is, most gamers only care about the most popular games that they play.
 
kiwi1 said:
The issue is, most gamers only care about the most popular games that they play.
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Very true, the fact of the matter nobody (when it comes to actual gaming) gives two hoots about whether a game engine is "badly coded", "unoptimised", "biased" or whatever, it is just about what card gives the best performance. Even if the game has some special line of code to arbitrarily cap fps at 60 if it detects an AMD display driver, making it an 'unfair' benchmark, at the end of the day when it comes to that specific game, it makes Nvidia a better prospect.

Of course, buying a high end graphics card on the basis of performance in a single game seems a bit silly but for people who upgrade frequently and have batch of preferred titles, monitoring a select few benchmarks may be sufficient.
 
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