VGA Image Quality Settings and Test System
Image Quality Settings and Test System
Before we begin with the graphics performance tests a little explanation. We use a time based measurement based upon framerate recording. The test is a representative for any modern age GPU. Our rather nice settings are:
The graphics cards used in this specific article are:
| Radeon R9 290X (8GB) |
| Radeon R9 290X (4GB) |
| Radeon R9 290 |
| Radeon R9 285 |
| Radeon R9 280X |
| Radeon R9 270X |
| Radeon R9 260X |
| Radeon HD 7970 GHz |
| Radeon HD 7950 |
| Radeon HD 7870 |
| GeForce GTX Titan X |
| GeForce GTX Titan |
| GeForce GTX 980 |
| GeForce GTX 970 |
| GeForce GTX 960 |
| GeForce GTX 780 Ti |
| GeForce GTX 780 |
| GeForce GTX 770 |
| GeForce GTX 760 |
| GeForce GTX 680 |
| GeForce GTX 660 Ti |
Our test system is based on the eight-core Intel Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition with Haswell-E based setup on the X99 chipset platform. This setup is overclocked to 4.40 GHz on all cores. Next to that we have energy saving functions disabled for this motherboard and processor (to ensure consistent benchmark results). We use Windows 8.1 all patched up. Each card runs on the same PC with the same operating system clone.
- GeForce cards use the latest 347.88 driver.
- AMD Radeon graphics cards we used the latest 15.3 Beta driver.
Let's head on-wards to the next page where we'll look at some screenshots, then FCAT the game and then start measure several monitor resolutions in terms of relative performance versus quality settings.
Above some examples in the level we test in. An outdoor scene. The screenshots are managed by AfterBurner and the colored bars to the left are FCAT frame labels . Again, just a small example where we walk around a little, nothing more. But this level we test and thus benchmark in.
