As always, we strive to represent game performance across a wide range of graphics hardware. We're including cards as far down the spectrum as AMD's Radeon HD 6450 and Nvidia's GeForce GT 210, to the powerful Radeon HD 7970 and GeForce GTX 680.
All overclocked boards in our collection are set to their reference specifications to best represent the like-performing products on the market, and to keep comparisons between models fair.
With no in-game benchmark tool available, we had to create one of our own. We chose the "Changing Tides" mission because its outdoor jungle environment was harder on performance than the urban areas. We were forced to benchmark by playing through the game as identically as possible for just over two minutes, and recording the action with Fraps. Fortunately, we determined the results to be both repeatable and subject to very little variance.
Testing Notes
All overclocked boards in our collection are set to their reference specifications to best represent the like-performing products on the market, and to keep comparisons between models fair.
With no in-game benchmark tool available, we had to create one of our own. We chose the "Changing Tides" mission because its outdoor jungle environment was harder on performance than the urban areas. We were forced to benchmark by playing through the game as identically as possible for just over two minutes, and recording the action with Fraps. Fortunately, we determined the results to be both repeatable and subject to very little variance.
| Test System | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core i7-3960X (Sandy Bridge-E), 3.3 GHz @ 4.25 GHz , Six Cores, LGA 2011, 15 MB Shared L3 Cache, Hyper-Threading enabled. | ||||||
| Motherboard | ASRock X79 Extreme9 (LGA 2011) Chipset: Intel X79 Express | ||||||
| Networking | On-Board Gigabit LAN controller | ||||||
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance LP PC3-16000, 4 x 4 GB, 1600 MT/s, CL 8-8-8-24-2T | ||||||
| Graphics | GeForce 210 1 GB DDR3 GeForce GT 630 512 MB GDDR5 GeForce GTX 650 2 GB GDDR5 GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1 GB GDDR5 GeForce GTX 670 2 GB GDDR5 GeForce GTX 680 2 GB GDDR5 Radeon HD 6450 512 MB GDDR5 Radeon HD 6670 512 MB DDR3 Radeon HD 7750 1 GB GDDR5 Radeon HD 7770 1 GB GDDR5 Radeon HD 7850 1 GB GDDR5 Radeon HD 7970 3 GB GDDR5 | ||||||
| Hard Drive | Samsung 470-series 256 GB (SSD) | ||||||
| Power | ePower EP-1200E10-T2 1200 W ATX12V, EPS12V | ||||||
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