HIS vs EVGA Midrange Gaming Face Off Review
Batman Arkham Asylum
Published: 29th October 2010 | Source: OC3D | Price: |
Batman Arkham Asylum
Arkham is definitely one of the PhysX poster children and we'd be amazing if the GTX460 does anything but romp away with this test. Even with a 4GHz quad-core pumping beneath the hood it should still be a walkover for the green corner.
Single GPU - Stock Speeds
So it proves to be with both of the GTX460s taking a healthy lead at the top of our charts. The minimum frame-rate is where the Radeons really take a bit of a battering, although it has to be said that considering the image quality we're running, even the little HD6850 never drops below 60FPS at any point. How far technology has come.
Single GPU - Overclocked
Demonstrating the power of the nVidia GPUs, especially when it comes to calculating the physics whilst rendering the graphics, once overclocked the lead gets even greater. The HD6 series cards hardly gain at all as they are already easily coping with the image part of the game. As the GTX460s are also used for the PhysX the overclock gives massive gains across the board of 14 and 16FPS.
Dual GPU - Stock
Considering even the worst stock single card result we got was more than good enough for Arkham Asylum, this definitely is a bit of GPU overkill. It does however provide us with our first real surprise. Both minimum and maximum frame-rates follow exactly how we'd expect them to do, but when it comes to the average frame-rate the GTX460 1GB slips a long way behind the GTX460 768MB in a SLI setup. So far behind that the HD6870XF edges ahead.
Dual GPU - Overclocked
Proving the stock result wasn't a one off, again we have the 768MB GTX460 ahead of its larger RAM'd brother. Not by as much and when you're dealing with frame-rates in the 200s then 18FPS isn't really here or there. Nonetheless it's an oddity. The overclock does mean that the HD6870 slips back into third place but really all of these cards are more than capable of handling Gothams finest.
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Originally Posted by Todd
I'm wondering when Quad Xfire would start to make sense. |
Maybe a few. But I don't know any one with four GPUs apart from Diablo and AMD are not going to waste loads of money in resources to cater to one in fifty (at the most) people.
The problem is it's out of AMD/Nvidia's hands any way. It all falls back to game coders and none of them will bother. Why would you? That's like having a thousand English people in a hotel and because there's one German there you make Bratwurst and Sauercraut for all of them. It's just a waste of time and money for pretty much every one involved. Game makers, GPU manufacturers and so on. Take into account that Obsidian just released Fallout : New Vegas with all of the bugs problems and issues from the initial release of Fallout 3. If they were to get it perfect and get quadfire in there it would have taken ten years, not two. Take into account how long Valve have their games in development trying to get them perfect..
Going back to the review.. Crikey. I can not even begin to imagine the ammount of work that went into testing so many different configurations. Hats off guys, this is some of your best work yet. Also -
[editors note: like Hanibal & Murdock]
Who is the crazy one?
hehe that bit made me laugh. I can just see one of you dancing around the test bed.Also -
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...uron/cards.jpg
Interracial GPU gangbang ahoy !
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Originally Posted by murphy7801
Tom your getting better at crysis |
i want to have sex with that picture...
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
HAHAHAHA! It was one of the forum members Mr Strawberry playing |
lol must admit all them pictures of the GPUs do look awesome
Reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZVbVvZqBJM
Anyone who understands this is a true nerd.
am bit of noob so don't bash me
Cédric
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Originally Posted by Cedric
I've got a question about the dual card winner . The 6850 gets better results in higher end games ( i think ) in crossfire then 460 and the price is almost the same , so why don't you recommend the 6850 in crossfire ? am bit of noob so don't bash me Cédric |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
Because the 460 1GB's win out overall dude in the dual card segment. |
thanks in advance
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Originally Posted by Cedric
Sorry for asking this . So you would recommend the 460 1gb sli for general gaming and for high en the 6850 ? or only the 460 ? i just wannna get the best out of my money . thanks in advance |
dual of either would be epic tbh.
Id buy AMD cards for the cooler and quiet approach though tbh (personal preference)
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
what do you mean dude 6850 single or dual? dual of either would be epic tbh. Id buy AMD cards for the cooler and quiet approach though tbh (personal preference) |
Anyway i think its better to wait a couple of weeks because of the new series but for now am thinking about the 6850 cf cause thy cheaper and has little more fps( ~2 )then the 460 sli.
Crysis Warhead page - Single CPU: Stock 6870 performs far more better than overclocked 6870.
Explanation?
PSU problem...?:-)
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Originally Posted by phnikola
I am little bit unsure on reliability of results in this review. Crysis Warhead page - Single CPU: Stock 6870 performs far more better than overclocked 6870. Explanation? PSU problem...?:-) |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
PSU problem, ha friad not dude. Some times overclocking can end up giving you lower results, the card just didnt like it tbh. |
Hmmm, perhaps downclocking would give even better results....
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Time for the Middleweight Championship of the world. In the red corner the HD6850 and HD6870. In the Green corner the GTX460 768MB and 1GB.
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