Recently we updated our graphics test track in August last year and it changed the hardware: So we continued from there on Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU, which is not only more power, but also the new PCIe 3.0 standard supports . Because the platform is currently continue, this time were the driver and the selection of games on top of updating our graphics test track.
In addition to the AMD Catalyst 13.2 beta 4 is now available for use of Nvidia GeForce 313.96. At the games had some no longer current or technically uninteresting title five new soft. "Medal of Honor: Warfighter": A new "Battlefield 3," "Far Cry 3", "Hitman Absolution" are, and the free-2-play game "Planetside 2". For Skyrim, we also installed some graphics mods, among other things, improve the textures, the water and the vegetation plot to raise the demands on the graphics card.
Moreover, we have from now on the new "3DMark" as used in synthetic benchmark that everyone can run the free version (for the most part).We tested 18 different 3D applications, two more than the old test track. In addition to the test track in the coming weeks not less up to date, "Battlefield 3" will hold a collection availability.
With this article we introduce also a new variant to represent the performance of the graphics card.. The so-called "frame latency diagrams" represent a new approach to establish a performance, but more on that later.
In tests without anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering we do in the future at the resolutions 2560 × 1600 and 5760 × 1080.
Through the updates, changes and enhancements we have improved the information content of our graphics tests. For praise, suggestions and of course criticism to these innovations are welcomed in the comments to this article.
