Batman: Arkham Asylum

Batman: Arkham Asylum (DirectX 10)



One of the best received gaming titles on both console and PC for 2009, Batman: Arkham Asylum is an impressive game both visually and in terms of design. 

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Batman: Arkham Asylum Test Settings

One interesting note: Batman (personally) doesn’t allow setting AA levels in-game for AMD graphics card but DOES for NVIDIA GPUs.  We instead enabled AA in the AMD Catalyst Control Panel where noted.

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In our single card tests the GTX 295 is still definitely the leader in performance for Batman: Arkham Asylum though the GTX 285 and new HD 4870 fight back and forth for the top single-GPU spot.  In terms of generation-to-generation improvement on AMD’s side of things, the HD 5870 starts out 37% faster at 1680×1050 and ends up about 45% faster at 2560×1600 where it breaks the 60 FPS barrier on average.


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CrossFire scaling on the new Evergreen GPUs is impressive in Batman reaching as high as 84% at the top most resolution.  The GTX 295 is also finally beat here with two AMD cards and falls back about 20% at 2560×1600.

Now we have our opinions and a demonstration of Batman: Arkham Asylum using AMD Eyefinity technology.




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