Results: AvP
One of the first titles to really leverage DX11 and tessellation, AvP still looks really nice and has turned out to be a solid little benchmark for us. Ultra settings with 16X AF and 4X AA enabled. Tessellation is essentially limited to the alien model, but in this particular benchmark there sure are a lot of aliens.
Oh, separation! We finally get to see some significant differences between the cards. The 7950 is well ahead of the overclocked N580GTX of last generation. In this particular benchmark we can deduce that this slightly overclocked MSI card is probably right around the same performance as the GTX 670.
399$ also buy ya a gtx670.
399$ also buy ya a gtx670. Title says 670 but in the benchmark graph’s list a 580.
In the “Test Setup” section I
In the “Test Setup” section I explained what cards I used in this review. So far I have no GTX 670 or 680 boards in residence for comparison purposes.
Interesting Josh doesn’t have
Interesting Josh doesn’t have an SSD in his rig
heh, yeah Allyn needs to hook
heh, yeah Allyn needs to hook him up 😛
Probably because of all the games he has to keep installed on there
Yeah, that would really only
Yeah, that would really only affect loading times, which I don’t test when doing a vid card review. But Allyn is always welcome to throw me some SSDs whenever he feels like it!