Metro: Last Light
Metro: Last Light (DirectX 11)
Beneath the ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow, in the tunnels of the Metro, the remnants of mankind are besieged by deadly threats from outside – and within.
Mutants stalk the catacombs beneath the desolate surface, and hunt amidst the poisoned skies above. But rather than stand united, the station-cities of the Metro are locked in a struggle for the ultimate power, a doomsday device from the military vaults of D6. A civil war is stirring that could wipe humanity from the face of the earth forever.
As Artyom, burdened by guilt but driven by hope, you hold the key to our survival – the last light in our darkest hour…
Our Settings for Metro: Last Light
Metro: Last Light continues to be a tough game on GPUs as our results show here. The brand new GTX 980 Ti is still only able score about 65 FPS at 2560×1440, matching the score of the Titan X essentially. AMD's Radeon R9 295X2 is a bit faster, getting just under 85 average FPS while the R9 290X single GPU card is pulls ~55 FPS, about 25% slower than the 980 Ti.
At 4K both the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and the Titan X bring in 36 average FPS with the R9 295X2 hitting nearly 50 FPS. Because of the dual-GPU configuration though, the 295X2 does breach the 3ms frame time variance level at about the 92nd percentile, much earlier than we'd like. The experience isn't awful but it clearly falls behind that of the single GPU cards in our testing.
| GTX 980 Ti, Average FPS Comparisons, Metro: Last Light | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GTX Titan X | GTX 980 | R9 295X2 | R9 290X | |
| 2560×1440 | +2% | +25% | -20% | +25% |
| 3840×2160 | -1% | +16% | -40% | +29% |
To bad TSMC didn’t have
To bad TSMC didn’t have better Fabs then just using 28nm that’s been around well over two years. The EVGA GeForce GTX 670 seems to be holding up for the games I play and its 28nm. Nvidia has amazing graphics cards and this can be said for the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, honestly if the chance was there, I would have two of these in SLI.
Nonetheless I’ll be keeping a eye open for Volta. Yes I’ll wait that long especially with it taking on the full 3D HBM IC chips all running on 14nm Silicon.
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Still noticing that no review
Still noticing that no review site seems to have the balls to put the 980TI up against Arma 3 Maxed out. or Maxed out at 4K.
My i7-4790k gtx 980 Ti build
My i7-4790k gtx 980 Ti build gets about 38 FPS on the altis benchmark. (everything maxed view distance set to 6500 and objects set to 1600) If you mostly play on small maps like altis or arma 2 maps like takistan it should run alot better. and even that benchmark is kind of a worst case scenario with lost of explosions and smoke effects.
It is a pity that the new GTX
It is a pity that the new GTX 980 TI doesn’t have a backplate as GTX 980 reference.
FCAT??? Why not?
FCAT??? Why not?
Is there any reason to wait
Is there any reason to wait until the non-reference versions come out? Or is it safe to pull the trigger now?