DirectX 11 class graphics card performance DX11 - Ultra

DirectX 11 class graphics card performance DX11 - Ultra - HQ Textures

So we start off with a monitor resolution of 1280x1024 - again all tests have DX11 / Ultra mode 4xAA enabled / 16x AF enabled / HBAO enabled -- we'll everything is enabled:)  Our scores are average framerates so you need to take a margin in mind for lower FPS at all times. As such we say 40 FPS for this game should be your minimum with 60 FPS (frames per second) being optimal.

That means your starting point at this resolution, 1280x1024, is roughly a Radeon HD 6870. By all means changing image quality will help out with performance greatly, we'll show you some examples later on in this article. but being catered towards an enthusiast audience we focus on high-end image quality first.

In more civilized 1600x1200'ish monitor resolutions you'll notice that the numbers are already start crumbling down. By the way make sure you have a graphics card with 1024MB of graphics memory at the least for these settings and HQ textures. A GeForce GTX 560 Ti would be optimal for the money in this resolution on the ATI Radeon side, really with these quality settings 6970 is your best bet. It is the MSAA that is killing off the cards though, it eats away roughly half the perf.