now I released my GTX 580 review very
very recently however there is one game
that is um yeah it's of you know somewhat consequential importance to the
gaming world you know a few people uh might buy this game and it is Call of
Duty Black Ops and so this game was not out until the same time as the GTX 580
which means I wasn't able to Benchmark it and release results for it along with
my full review so I am just going to show you guys a quick rundown of the
settings the graphical settings I'm going to be using to test this
particular new title and uh so I'm going
to actually run it with GTX 580 SLI GTX
580s I'm going to run it with the 480 I'm going to run it with my 460 SLI
setup and then I'm also going to run it with the 5870 and 5870 Crossfire setup
so uh stay tuned and you can find out on
my particular test platform so I'll do a quick rundown of that for you guys if
you don't already know I do use a core i7 875k overclock to 3.81 GHz I use 4
gigs of RAM and I use a cougar SX series
850 wat power supply and that's pretty much everything you need to know about
this test platform in terms of its performance so you can compare the
numbers now I'm going to be doing a custom run through where I'm doing a
fraps recording of about 5 minutes of gameplay I'll be doing it a couple times
to ensure that there's consistency to the results although the thing about the
Call of Duty campaign is it's very paced because you follow the guy around so
it's very easy to get consistent results and I'll be using fraps to record it and
I'll be giving you guys the average frame rates so stay
tuned so I'm just doing some gameplay footage of uh some of the Black
Ops well gameplay that uh that I'm using
to Benchmark these cards you can see right now I have the 5870 crossfire
setup on the bench so I'm running it on 30-in monitor with the settings that I
showed you guys before uh like I said it's a pretty consistent run through
because you can see that I'm following these guys around uh so the pacing is
about right and
uh sorry it's really hard to do these uh
these narratives when I'm trying to play a video game at the same time but
there's some pretty good action sequences there's some uh some grenades
that go off explosions happen all kinds
of good stuff I'm playing through on easy and I apologize for that but uh
it's far more important from my perspective to have uh to have
consistency in the Run throughs as opposed to having it it be challenging
and then having my uh my recording stop
4 minutes and 30 seconds in when I have to then I have to redo it with that card
for that run so Benchmark graphs coming shortly I'm
almost at the end of the run here so it's from the beginning of the level up
until this point and it should turn off in just a moment here before I get to
the end into this hallway and come
on should be almost done before I get to the hallway come on like I said the run
through is very consistent yeah there we go it's done now
okay so it should be fairly clear from the graphs that you've seen that even at
2560 by 1600 so that is the highest
resolution of a single monitor that you can pretty much run these days and uh
with all the details maxed out I'm just going to show you guys that again that
almost none of these setups were bottlenecked by the video card almost
all of them ran into an issue where the limiting factor was the CPU so that's
why we're seeing the same frame rate between a single GTX 480 and dual GTX
580s in this game so pretty much what
I'm trying to say is is in regular 2D
mode we're not going to run into any differentiation between these cards
however I have another monitor here and
uh we're going to be trying this out so we're going to run in 3D stereoscopic
mode and we're obviously not going to be able to use the ATI cards because right
now uh GeForce is the only solution for stereoscopic 3D in Black Ops so we're
going to run the 460 SLI the 480 the 580
and the 580 SLI and 3D stereoscopic and find out if we get some differentiation
between the Cards because stereoscopic 3D is much more demanding on the GPU
than regular two-dimensional 3D Graphics
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