This hardware is slightly improved in the GF In rare conditions, a GPU may be asked to do too much, may get crazy hot, and may draw too much power from the PCIe power plugs.
A perfect example of such conditions is the synthetic FurMark test, which made nVidia graphics cards run unusually hot and draw far more power than they were designed to. A few games have simple 3D rendered menu screens that do not impose an artificial cap on frame rate and can similarly cause too much heat and power draw. The test is rather strenuous and forward-looking, featuring high detail levels, dynamic lighting and shadows, and lots of tessellation.
FurMark is a synthetic OpenGL-based test that renders a torus covered in fur. In the test results, you can see the effect of the new power draw safeguard kicking in. During this test, the GeForce GTX got extremely loud and hot, and drew far more power than it was supposed to. It sounded like a leaf blower, though it also ran very fast. In contrast, the GTX limited the power draw and scaled everything back to a reasonable level.
We tested with five modern games that can push a modern graphics card to the limit. We used the demo version whose benchmark track differs from the track in the retail game , so you can run the game at home and compare your results. We enabled DirectX 11 and turned all of the detail levels up to full. Again, we turned all of the detail levels up to the maximum for our testing. This is another game that AMD cards usually handle quite well. In our tests, the GTX ran about 15 percent faster than its top-of-the-line nVidia predecessor, and 25 to 40 percent faster than the Radeon HD Only the dual-chip outpaced it.
The S. However, multi-GPU technology isn't without pitfalls, and given the choice we would always opt for a single high-end graphics card. AMD was originally expected to deliver its Cayman XT and Pro-based Radeon HD and graphics cards sometime during November, but they have postponed their arrival until mid-December for undisclosed reasons.
If you don't mind holding off a few short weeks, the wait could be worth some savings or potentially more performance for the same dollars depending on what AMD has reserved for us. For those of you wondering, the Radeon HD turned out to be a bit of a disappointment, falling well short of the GTX and as a result was priced to compete with the GTX , allowing Nvidia to hold the performance crown without dispute for the next few years.
It would be interesting to see how those two stack up today, perhaps that's something we can look at in the future. So, we've established that the GTX was able to save face for Nvidia in and retain the performance crown for a few years before 28nm GPUs arrived in , reigniting the graphics war once more.
What we're looking to see now is just how well the tubby mm2 die performs today. There were 3GB variants floating around, but most people picked up the original 1. Let's check out those results before taking a gander at some actual gameplay. First up we have the Battlefield 1 results using the ultra quality preset, which as it turns out is a bad choice for the GTX and its measly 1.
Don't worry though, after we go over all the graphs I'll show some gameplay performance using more agreeable settings. Search Advanced search….
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