Battlefield 3
Battlefield 3 (DirectX 11)
Battlefield 3™ leaps ahead of its time with the power of Frostbite 2, DICE's new cutting-edge game engine. This state-of-the-art technology is the foundation on which Battlefield 3 is built, delivering enhanced visual quality, a grand sense of scale, massive destruction, dynamic audio and character animation utilizing ANT technology as seen in the latest EA SPORTS™ games.
Frostbite 2 now enables deferred shading, dynamic global illumination and new streaming architecture. Sounds like tech talk? Play the game and experience the difference!
Our Settings for Battlefield 3
Here is our testing run through the game, for your reference.
Man, sometimes I could just KNOW the results before the testing, but that's why you run the benchmarks anyway. The fastest card of the four results here is the Sapphire TOXIC card, followed by the ASUS DCII, the MSI Gaming and then the reference design. The TOXIC card is able to pull out an average frame rate of about 60 FPS at 2560×1440 with Ultra settings enabled, which is 9-10% higher than stock.
really haven’t justified why
really haven’t justified why the MSI didn’t get the same award as the Asus.
Not sure what this is tryingt
Not sure what this is tryingt to ask. It DID get the same award?
MSI rocks as cooling and
MSI rocks as cooling and slient fan solutions are mandatory for performance of a processor atleast at a specified clock rate provided by manufacturer.Overclocking is secondary. Also power consumption is less.
Nice roundup!
You tested the
Nice roundup!
You tested the MSI card with the old BIOS though, with the alleged VRM overheating problems.
This is the new one (according to Tomshardware(DE) it’s a lot louder): http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/146769/msi-r9280x-3072-131009.html
Hmm, interesting I’ll take a
Hmm, interesting I'll take a look.
Nice write-up Ryan, I really
Nice write-up Ryan, I really like the look and design of the ASUS GPU, they really have put some thought and effort into the production of this card.
All good cards and a nice
All good cards and a nice review, although the noise of the Toxic is disappointing considering the price premium. I would have preferred a presumably quieter 3-slot design like the Asus Matrix Platinum (also $350). Any plans on reviewing that?
Under Metro Last Light :
What
Under Metro Last Light :
What is the difference between the FRAPS FPS and Observed FPS chart?
Other than that, it was interesting to see how various brands tackle certain challenges.
In my opinion, Sapphire would learn a lot from ASUS for their next design. I find ASUS has the neater design for long-term performance.
Hey Ryan, great article.
I
Hey Ryan, great article.
I myself just got the toxic 280x about a week ago. I agree the performance is great but i’m having game shadow/ texture flickering as well as some general screen artifacts even out of the box… (crysis 3, heaven 4.0, BF4)as well as some noticeable coil whine.
Im on the latest drivers and believe I have a good enough psu
Thermaltake 750w bronze with a core i5 2500k. Temps are also under 70c when this is happening. Maybe just a bad egg?
Still rocking the house with
Still rocking the house with a gtx 570 SLI setup how does this card compare?
well im from Lithuania and in
well im from Lithuania and in my country asus cost 100$ then toxic and it cant overclock so much so wait in my country toxic is better in every single aspect since if asus have same oc it would be as loud to maintain temperature at that point so faster cheaper cooler i dont care about sound while i have decent case with sound dapening and taking this bether card i take silver so dont get me wrong but from when silver is bether then gold since gpu toxic>asus in where i live sad to see such ratings just for noice while u knew well that that gpu has more horses compare with cars why ppl love ferary sound? becouse its faster ….. review is good awards not so much graps of fps in games totaly stupid why ? who makes 2 almost identical colors for graps of 4 cards? cant u put red blue green purple? ……. jesus
I picked up the MSI and
I picked up the MSI and updated the BIOS straight away. Performance is nice and it runs quietly. The only thing is the coil whine, which apparantly a lot of customers on newegg are also mentioning. Not a deal breaker, but it is a little annoying at times.
@Paul Hockett
Saved me loads
@Paul Hockett
Saved me loads of time, cheers, as I thought this might just be mine. Flickery bars across textures and shadows in bioshock and chess boards and technicolour discos in crysis 3. I find it happens quite randomly and can game 8hrs without trouble then next day 30m in it starts so was gonna be a nightmare trying to figure which card was causing troubles. Real shame as when they work i’m enjoying everything at max at 1440p.
Anyone tested this card on
Anyone tested this card on Rome 2 ? How does it perform ?
I know its’ a bit late but i
I know its’ a bit late but i really wish you would have thrown in XFX’s Double D R9 280X 1000MHz BOOST
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FSC5N66/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1O03RSCAQ99TD&coliid=I2KXFB8JHBUKK
I don’t mean to sound like a fan boy for them of which I can only say why doesn’t everyone buy an XFX GPU with a Lifetime warranty. This year it seems that what is going to happen is I will be drown back to an AMD GPU. Who pulled no punches this season. From a GTX 780 which I had nearly purchased when the AMD R9 280’s were announced and reviewed.
Thanks for the Video Reviews on YouTube and also with This Week in Computer Hardware, with Patrick Norton.
So what are the other
So what are the other alternatives of it? I just wanna know more about maintenance..Find more on http://www.greatbodykits.com/
Just bought one of
Just bought one of these(ASUS) and its a beast, bang per buck it one of the best on the market. Well I think so anyway 🙂