Benchmarks: Civilisation V, Dragon Age II

For testing Civ V we used a saved game that is more than 300 turns in which provides a good representation of gameplay. Using Fraps we measured the performance at various zoom levels while scrolling around the map.

The Radeon Hard disk drive 6990 is back on peak as we test with Culture Five and at 5040x1050 we constitute it to exist 19% faster than the GeForce GTX 590. This margin is reduced to just 9% in favor of the Radeon at 5760x1200 and then finally 6% at 7680x1600. Still we were impressed to find both graphics cards averaging over 30fps at 7680x1600 in this DirectX 11 title.

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Dragon Age 2

We used Fraps to measure out frame rates during a minute of gameplay from Dragon Age II'southward starting time single-role player level. The examination begins equally the player engages a number of hostiles on top of a rocky mountain outcrop. The scene is fairly busy, then every bit usual this should present an ideal scenario for testing the GPUs.

Whereas Crossfire is poorly implemented in Crysis 2, the same can exist said nearly SLI when playing Dragon Historic period 2. Although contempo Nvidia driver updates accept done a lot to correct Dragon Historic period II performance it appears that SLI is still defective even with the latest 270.61 driver. This in spite of Nvidia's claims that a GeForce GTX 580 SLI configuration will see up to 516% performance increase at 2560x1600 with 8xAA/16xAF enabled using the "Very Loftier" quality preset.

Nosotros know that the GeForce GTX 580 is 10% faster than the Radeon HD 6970 at 2560x1600, so the weak performance from the GTX 590 you see to a higher place is due to lack of SLI support. As a result the Radeon Hard disk 6990 was 84% faster at 5040x1050, 81% at 5760x1200 and 133% faster at 7680x1600.

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