Impressions and benchmarks

• Level Upriver
• DirectX 11 enabled
• 8x Multi-sample Anti-aliasing
• 16 Anisotropic filtering
• All image quality settings enabled at maximum

I had doubts using this title as it is quite stringent on the settings but mind you that for the GTX 660 DX11 is actually enabled --- that's how much stronger today's cards really are.

I wanted at least one modern game title in the benchmarks:

• DX11
• Very high Quality mode
• in-game AA enabled
• in-game AF enabled

You'll notice that the GTX 660 again is being treated unfair -- it runs in DX11. For this title though the frame buffer is becoming a rather big issue for the 9800 GT.

3DMark Vantage also was gives a good indication of per card performance with that one single number/score.

And the last title is being run in DX9 with 4xAA.  Again have a peek at the 1280x1024 resolution to be able to get a grasp of a more objective comparison. It's quite huge .. the performance difference that is.