so guys I'm doing my Battlefield 3 benchmarking this weekend right now I've
got the 6970 on the test bench so I'm using my
core i7 2600k test bench I'm running the
CPU at stock speed for this one uh the cards that I'm benching are the 590 580
570 560 TI 550 6990 6970 6950 and the
6870 so the settings I'm using are the high preset in Battlefield 3 just
because I wanted something that was going to be not quite so highend that I
might run into frame bu buffer issues I wanted to get a good idea of how the
game performs on all these gpus relative
to each other so high settings and I'm
running at 1080p so my Benchmark sequence is on the level o I think it's
called comrades something like that whatever this level's called and then as
soon as I get out of the car here I'm going to start and he's going to shoot
the guy and then I'm going to get out of the car so I'll start I'll do my run
through and then I'm going to record 2 minutes of fraps gam
play that I play the same way every time the repeatability of this particular
Benchmark is uh can be done to within
about 0.5 of a frame per second so that's what I would consider the
thank you that's what I would consider to be the margin of error about5 to 1
frame per second so I'm going to follow him I'm going to have to apologize in
advance for my gameplay here my mouse sensitivity is off and
uh oh cat go
away okay hopefully that doesn't interfere you know what I'll probably
have to redo this run off camera but I just want to show you guys the general
run thing through whenever my cats don't interfere things go a little bit more
smoothly so wait for the car to go and then I'm going to go pillar to pillar
and try and see if there's any guys to shoot and just keep moving up until I
gain this position here at which point I
will fight these guys well rather shoot them while they're not looking and then
I will fight the guys that come up the stairs duck back here a little bit kill
this guy wow like you can tell I'm playing on
easy right like one shot to the guy's hip and he goes down oh that's not
usually the way I go run over here look over here come back here kill this dude
now the autosave is kicked in this game was really hard to find a good place to
uh to Benchmark for 2 minutes straight because what I really like to have is a
checkpoint so that I don't have to sit through a cinematic sequence in between
gpus every time but I wasn't able to find a single 2minute long uninterrupted
segment M of play absolutely ridiculous and I killed those guys too quickly so
I'm just going to kind of stand here and shoot a little bit because
uh the fraps counter shouldn't reappear
until I get to about right here there it
goes just like that so so yeah it was very frustrating and I do have to sit
through that car sequence every time a lot of the earlier levels especially are
like in the dark and like there's nothing going on but I thought this was
a pretty good gameplay sequence so uh without further ado I will present to
you guys my my graphs once I'm finished rerunning this one and then I think I
still have the 6870 to go so one thing that I did forget to mention when I did
my initial video talking about the uh benchmarking procedures that I am using
the latest driver so that is the Catalyst
11.1 or rather 11.10 drivers from AMD
and the GeForce 28562 drivers from NVIDIA so these are
the blah blah blah blah blah you can read more about it this is is a
recommended driver for Battlefield 3 and then I think on the ATI rather AMD
release notes Battlefield 3 provides great Crossfire scaling and resolves
issues when running in crossfire mode now here come the results and where's my
Excel it's here there's my graph so
Battlefield 3 FPS more is better I'm going to go ahead and give AMD major
props because yes their Crossfire scaling is outstanding the
6990 performs on average at
114.1 FPS compared to the 6970 at 64.2
now my 6990 was running without the OC
switch enabled on it which means that that is near perfect Crossfire scaling
simply outstanding uh rarely rarely seen
that in any kind of a real world scenario from NVIDIA or from AMD uh so
the 590 does scale but not as well as the 6990 and then here are the rest of
the cards so for these ones bear in mind that these sort of equivalent GeForce
and Radeon cards um equivalent in terms of performance usually the Radeon cards
tend to be a little bit cheaper so I think AMD's done a great job but I look
forward to seeing what NVIDIA can do to optimize their cards because generally
speaking the way I have it arranged is the way I'm typically expecting to see
the performance lineup and uh that is not what I observed with Battlefield 3
we're seeing a serious equivalent see between the 580 and the 6970 the 570 and
the 6950 the 560 TI and the
6870 I'd say anything above a 550 is
suitable for 1080p with all high presets
uh but the 550 TI did slow down during firefights I know I don't have minimum
FPS on this particular graph but this was the only one where the minimum FPS
really bothered me all of the rest of them provided a smooth gameplay
experience and thank you for checking out my Battlefield 3 Performance video
see there's my notes where I have my benchmarks written down don't forget to
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