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Multi-monitor benchmarks

Confused Stu

Confused Stu

Confused Stu

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I sometimes see people asking "Will I be able to play xxxx on Ultra across 3 screens"? I sympathise as, although review sites are posting more benchmarks at multi-monitor resolutions, they are still few and far between. This means there's often few resources for people to find to see how their graphics card (current or prospective) is likely to run their favourite games on more than one monitor without splashing the cash and finding out.

What I would like to build is a database of games and the performance people are getting on their real-life rigs to give others an idea what kind of performance to expect. This is not meant as an "overclock to the max to get one good run" kind of thread, but more the performance you get on your 24/7 settings.

I've been through all the games I own today and run every built-in benchmark I can find. Sadly, a lot of the modern games (COD and BF, I'm looking at you) don't have benchmarks built in, which makes consistent performance figures tricky. I may return to these at a later date if people are interested, and nobody else fancies doing it. :)

If anyone else has a multi-monitor setup and fancies running any benchies, please post up your PC details, the settings used, and the results, and I will include them in this post so it's easier for people to review. Thanks.


Games, settings, and results

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Alien vs Predator

DX11 - AA - 4x
DX11 - Tessellation - On
DX11 - Advanced Shadows - On
Texture Quality - Very High
Shadow Complexity - High
Anisotrophic Filtering - 16x
Ambient Occlusion - On
Motion Blur - On
V-Sync - Off

Running DX11 Benchmark Tool v1.03

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Number of frames - 8768
Average Frame Time - 11.9ms
Average FPS - 83.7

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Batman Arkham Origins

Fullscreen - Yes
V-Sync - Off
Anti-Aliasing - FXAA High
Geometry Detail - DX11 Enhanced
Dynamic Shadows - DX11 Enhanced
Motion Blur - On
Depth of Field - DX11 Enhanced
Distortion - On
Lens Flare - On
Light Shafts - On
Reflections - On
Ambient Occlusion - DX11 Enhanced
Hardware Accelerated PhysX - Off

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Minimum - 50
Maximum - 122
Average - 99

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Batman Arkham City

Fullscreen - Yes
VSync - No
Anti-Aliasing - 8x MSAA
Stereoscopic 3D Status - Not Available
Directx 11 Features - MVSS and HBAO
Directx 11 Tessellation - High
Detail Level - Extreme
Dynamic Shadows - Yes
Motion Blur - Yes
Distortion - Yes
Lens Flares - Yes
Light Shafts - Yes
Reflections - Yes
Ambient Occlusion - Yes

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Minimum - 34
Maximum - 115
Average - 84

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Bioshock Infinite

Ultra DX11 DDOF preset selected in bench utility

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Minimum - 9.15
Maximum - 208.44
Average - 63.11

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Crysis

All settings at Very High
8 x AA
Built-in GPU benchmark tool used, over 4 runs

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Minimum - 36.42
Maximum - 56.06
Average - 46.53

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Dirt 2

Ultra preset
8 x MSAA

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Total frames - 12149
Minimum - 110.6
Average - 136.5

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Dirt 3

Ultra preset
8 x MSAA

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Total frames - 10485
Minimum - 82.33
Average - 103.45

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Dirt Showdown

Ultra preset
Multisampling 8f16xEQAA
Stereoscopic Rendering Off
Advanced Lighting On

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Total frames - 3543
Minimum - 49.35
Average - 62.13

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GTA 4

Textures - High
All other settings - Very High
Texture Filter - Anisotrophic x16
View Distance - 100
Detail Distance - 100
Definition - On
These settings are NOT playable in the game as performance drops to 20FPS at night, but I gave up trying to get this game to run properly several GPUs ago, so don't have any playable settings outside of the built in benchmark

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Average - 61.05

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Grid 2

All settings on maximum, including 8f16xEQAA, except the two Intel exclusive settings, which are off

Total frames - 9431
Minimum - 58.92
Maximum - 97.72
Average - 73.22

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Hitman Absolution

Ultra preset
8 x MSAA

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Minimum - 1.455604 (was at 32 until the benchmark faded to black, then went to this)
Maximum - 50.84
Average - 36.63

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Just Cause 2

All settings on their highest - although don't forget Nvidia cards have access to additional settings AMD don't

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Dark Tower
Time - 120.01
Average - 96.93

Desert Sunrise
Time - 118.20
Average - 122.39

Concrete Jungle
Time - 93.61
Average - 74.30

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Mafia 2

AA on
AF 16x
Shadow Quality On
Ambient Occlusion On
Geometry Detail High
PhysX Off

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Average - 83.5

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Metro 2033

Quality Very High
MSAA 4x
AF 16x
DX11 DOF On

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Minimum - 9.59
Maximum - 113.38
Average - 40.00

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Sleeping Dogs

Extreme preset
3D - off

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Minimum - 23.4
Maximum - 52.2
Average - 39.2

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Tomb Raider

Ultimate preset
Motion blur and effects on

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Minimum - 52.7
Maximum - 81.6
Average - 67.3
 
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might do a run of bf4/skyrim benchmarking, i'm running 5040*1200 [yes thats 3 1600*1200 panels, but you get these things for free you dont complain].

only running 1 290x, so might be helpful for those who can't afford cf. like the idea of the thread btw, might be nice to add in any tips or tricks for games that don't agree well to multi screens too
 
Thanks for this mate, after our conversation last night this is more than what I could asked for really. Nice thread idea as well. Will be useful to see other benchmarks which are hard to find.

Thanks again
 
Confused Stu said:
Batman Arkham Origins

Fullscreen - Yes
V-Sync - Off
Anti-Aliasing - FXAA High
Geometry Detail - DX11 Enhanced
Dynamic Shadows - DX11 Enhanced
Motion Blur - On
Depth of Field - DX11 Enhanced
Distortion - On
Lens Flare - On
Light Shafts - On
Reflections - On
Ambient Occlusion - DX11 Enhanced
Hardware Accelerated PhysX - Off

5760x1080 - 290 CF@stock - [email protected]
Minimum - 50
Maximum - 122
Average - 99
Click to expand...

this is the only benchmark i have already done, will probably add some more during the week if i get chance, on [email protected], 780sli, i get -

Minimum - 50
Maximum - 99
Average - 60

although i have 4x msaa enabled and physx high @ 6060x1080 bezel corrected
 
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