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so guys I'm doing my Battlefield 3 benchmarking this weekend right now I've

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got the 6970 on the test bench so I'm using my

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core i7 2600k test bench I'm running the

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CPU at stock speed for this one uh the cards that I'm benching are the 590 580

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570 560 TI 550 6990 6970 6950 and the

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6870 so the settings I'm using are the high preset in Battlefield 3 just

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because I wanted something that was going to be not quite so highend that I

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might run into frame bu buffer issues I wanted to get a good idea of how the

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game performs on all these gpus relative

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to each other so high settings and I'm

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running at 1080p so my Benchmark sequence is on the level o I think it's

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called comrades something like that whatever this level's called and then as

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soon as I get out of the car here I'm going to start and he's going to shoot

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the guy and then I'm going to get out of the car so I'll start I'll do my run

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through and then I'm going to record 2 minutes of fraps gam

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play that I play the same way every time the repeatability of this particular

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Benchmark is uh can be done to within

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about 0.5 of a frame per second so that's what I would consider the

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thank you that's what I would consider to be the margin of error about5 to 1

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frame per second so I'm going to follow him I'm going to have to apologize in

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advance for my gameplay here my mouse sensitivity is off and

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uh oh cat go

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away okay hopefully that doesn't interfere you know what I'll probably

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have to redo this run off camera but I just want to show you guys the general

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run thing through whenever my cats don't interfere things go a little bit more

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smoothly so wait for the car to go and then I'm going to go pillar to pillar

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and try and see if there's any guys to shoot and just keep moving up until I

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gain this position here at which point I

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will fight these guys well rather shoot them while they're not looking and then

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I will fight the guys that come up the stairs duck back here a little bit kill

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this guy wow like you can tell I'm playing on

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easy right like one shot to the guy's hip and he goes down oh that's not

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usually the way I go run over here look over here come back here kill this dude

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now the autosave is kicked in this game was really hard to find a good place to

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uh to Benchmark for 2 minutes straight because what I really like to have is a

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checkpoint so that I don't have to sit through a cinematic sequence in between

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gpus every time but I wasn't able to find a single 2minute long uninterrupted

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segment M of play absolutely ridiculous and I killed those guys too quickly so

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I'm just going to kind of stand here and shoot a little bit because

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uh the fraps counter shouldn't reappear

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until I get to about right here there it

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goes just like that so so yeah it was very frustrating and I do have to sit

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through that car sequence every time a lot of the earlier levels especially are

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like in the dark and like there's nothing going on but I thought this was

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a pretty good gameplay sequence so uh without further ado I will present to

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you guys my my graphs once I'm finished rerunning this one and then I think I

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still have the 6870 to go so one thing that I did forget to mention when I did

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my initial video talking about the uh benchmarking procedures that I am using

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the latest driver so that is the Catalyst

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11.1 or rather 11.10 drivers from AMD

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and the GeForce 28562 drivers from NVIDIA so these are

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the blah blah blah blah blah you can read more about it this is is a

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recommended driver for Battlefield 3 and then I think on the ATI rather AMD

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release notes Battlefield 3 provides great Crossfire scaling and resolves

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issues when running in crossfire mode now here come the results and where's my

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Excel it's here there's my graph so

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Battlefield 3 FPS more is better I'm going to go ahead and give AMD major

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props because yes their Crossfire scaling is outstanding the

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6990 performs on average at

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114.1 FPS compared to the 6970 at 64.2

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now my 6990 was running without the OC

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switch enabled on it which means that that is near perfect Crossfire scaling

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simply outstanding uh rarely rarely seen

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that in any kind of a real world scenario from NVIDIA or from AMD uh so

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the 590 does scale but not as well as the 6990 and then here are the rest of

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the cards so for these ones bear in mind that these sort of equivalent GeForce

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and Radeon cards um equivalent in terms of performance usually the Radeon cards

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tend to be a little bit cheaper so I think AMD's done a great job but I look

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forward to seeing what NVIDIA can do to optimize their cards because generally

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speaking the way I have it arranged is the way I'm typically expecting to see

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the performance lineup and uh that is not what I observed with Battlefield 3

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we're seeing a serious equivalent see between the 580 and the 6970 the 570 and

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the 6950 the 560 TI and the

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6870 I'd say anything above a 550 is

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suitable for 1080p with all high presets

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uh but the 550 TI did slow down during firefights I know I don't have minimum

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FPS on this particular graph but this was the only one where the minimum FPS

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really bothered me all of the rest of them provided a smooth gameplay

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experience and thank you for checking out my Battlefield 3 Performance video

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see there's my notes where I have my benchmarks written down don't forget to

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