so to test a bit of a different usage scenario for the GTX 590 I wanted to
have a look at its performance in 3D Vision in a couple of 3D Vision ready
games so one of the ones that I picked was Batman Arkham Asylum I'm running at
1920x 1080 so that is 1080p uh 4X
anti-aliasing and all of the details are maxed out completely now what I did
discover about Batman Arkham Asylum as well as one of the games that I was
running in 3D uh Hawks 2 was that it can
pretty well run the game completely maxed out with absolutely no slowdowns
whatsoever at 60fps so you can see the fraps counter up in the top corner and
um pretty much no matter what I do in terms of gam playay it just stays tagged
at 60 frames per second so I haven't actually tested any of the other
Solutions yet but once I have a chance uh hopefully I'll be able to some kind
of a difference in the performance now I wish as much as the next guide that 3D
Vision would support higher reses but right now the biggest limiting factor is
the displays or rather the display interfaces because DVI only supports up
to 1920x 1200 at 120 Herz which is
required for 3D Vision or it supports
2560 x600 at 60 HZ so we're pretty much
stuck with 1080p as a maximum resolution so I just wanted to discuss the
requirements for 3D Vision before I get into my results so first of all you'll
need the 3D Vision glasses uh either with the IR emitter or the wired version
that is uh just about to come out or uh
is already out depending on when you're watching this video you'll need a 3D
Vision ready graphics card so pretty much any GeForce 8800 series and up
gaming grade graphics card is going to be okay for that and then you'll also
need a 3D Vision ready display in this case I'm using an ASUS VG
23 VG 236 but you can also even use a
projectors so if you actually sort of look over here you know what I could
turn my uh light on here and then we' probably be getting better
quality uh video but uh you can also use a 3D Vision projector so here I've got
an Acer 3D Vision projector that I've been tinkering around with in the last
little bit so uh yeah I'll be bringing some results to you I'm only going to be
comparing it against High Solutions so I'm going to be comparing it against a
single GTX 580 as well as GTX 460s and
SLI to see how they stack
up so hopefully you guys enjoyed the charts and graphs segment of our video
today uh so this
is I'm going to try to help you guys interpret the results as much as I can
here because some of them might be a little bit confusing like Batman Arkham
Asylum and Hawks 2 both show are GTX 590
performing pretty much identically to
GTX 580 SLI but also pretty much
identically to let's see if I can find it GTX 560
SLI so why is that well the reason is
that in 3D Vision you're capped at a number of different frame rates so what
it does is the driver takes the closest
lowest frame rate that it it takes the
closest uh fixed frame rate and it takes
the highest possible one and then it it it stops it there so basically if you're
in a game like Batman Arkham Asylum or
Hawks 2 where it always can run higher than 60 FPS it'll run at 60 FPS and
you're in a g if you're in a game like Battlefield Bad Company 2 where you saw
two of our results were around that 40 FPS Mark what that means is The Game's
probably running somewhere between 45 to 55 FPS but the nearest fixed frame rate
is 40 so uh they 60 and 40 are two of
the ones that we do encounter so that's why those results are so clustered so
haw in Batman Arkham Asylum basically what we learn is that those games are
not limited in any way by these graphics
card configurations at 1080p fully maxed out running 3D Vision now Battlefield
Bad Company 2 on the other hand has kind of confusing results because you see
that those are my hot cross buns okay
you can clearly see that the GTX 580 SLI
destroys the 590 by a margin that
shouldn't be possible because GTX 580 SLI is faster than a 590 but not by that
much so the reason for that is again the same thing so the GTX 580 SLI scores
almost 60 frames per second which means that it was probably running above 60
frames per second but then capped at 60 frames per second for most of the uh the
the uh the segment of the game that I played through whereas the GTX 590 was
just under that threshold where it couldn't run at 60 FPS most of the time
so it had to drop itself all the way down to 40 which means that you get a
much leier performance in that particular title now I mean I had
everything pretty much maxed out you can back off a couple details don't get me
wrong you'll get a very very enjoyable 3D Vision gaming experience on the 590
in batted Company 2 but that is why we saw the results that we did and that's
once again why the 590 was so close to our 560 result uh Metro 233 is the one
probably the only one where we actually see sensible scaling so this game at
very high quality with everything completely maxed out in game is probably
too much for any of these Solutions so really I find Metro 2033 doesn't look
much different on high the only reason I Benchmark on very high is so that I can
just say all maxed out cuz that's a little bit easier for people to uh to
try on their own rigs to compare against my results so I guess that's pretty much
it that's all I wanted to say about it thank you for checking out this little
video on the 3D Vision performance of
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