Battlefield 3 Video Card Round Up Benchmark Results Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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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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