Image quality settings and benchmark system
Image quality settings and benchmark system
Before we begin with the graphics performance tests a little explanation. We use a time based measurement based upon the internal benchmark this title offers. These are some of the available in-game quality settings options. We flick the quality settings upwards and disable VSYNC. Games typically should be able to run in the 40 FPS range combined with your monitor resolution. From there on-wards you can enable/disable things if you need-more performance or demand even better game rendering quality.
Above a video of the internal benchmark, recorded with the new Titan X at Ultra HD.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has a built-in benchmark hidden in the Extras menu. It's about 90 seconds long but we benchmark. You can select various quality settings. Take a good look at our settings which we can recommend for the best PC experience.
The graphics cards tested
In this preliminary review we'll test the following cards at HIGH and for DX11 also in Ultra Quality modes.
- GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB)
- GeForce GTX 1070
- GeForce GTX 1080
- GeForce GTX 780 Ti
- GeForce GTX 980 Ti
- GeForce GTX 980
- GeForce GTX 970
- NVIDIA Titan X (Pascal)
- Radeon R9 380X
- Radeon R9 390
- Radeon R9 390X
- Radeon R9 Fury
- Radeon R9 Fury X
- Radeon R9 Nano
- Radeon RX 470 (4GB)
- Radeon RX 480 (8GB)
System Specifications
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 running 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 10 all patched up. Each card runs on the same PC with the same operating system clone.
- GeForce cards use the latest 372.54 driver (download drivers).
- Radeon graphics cards we used the latest AMD Radeon Crimson 16.8.2 Driver (download drivers).
