DirectX 12: graphics card performance Full HD & WHQD & UHD
We test at in-game Ultra quality settings as perfect balance for mainstream, high-end and enthusiast class graphics cards. For PC gaming your goal always should be 60+ FPS. However, we say 40 FPS for any game should be your minimum threshold, while 60 FPS (frames per second) or higher can be considered optimal.
Please have a look at the video below:
The video is recorded on a GeForce GTX 970. It however was recorded on a different PC . This was a 4-core Intel Core i7 4790K. The performance was different alright, we'll check out as to why what that is and was at the next pages in CPU scaling. In the video you can see how we test and what image quality settings we apply. you'll also have an idea on how the benchmark looks and works.
The type of game you play is always relevant though, an first person shooter game is nice at 60 fps , an online shooter on a 144Hz monitor feels better at 100+ fps. And totally on the opposing side, for RTS gaming things are different for which we are comfortable with an FPS ranging as low as 30~35 FPS. For your normal turn based usage 30 FPs for Warhammer is fine, but once the scene starts animating, you'll want that higher FPS range alright. So gaming below 30 FPS is consider to be poor. At all times if your framerate is low, you can opt to change in-game image quality settings. For example the cheapest trick to gain performance is to lower your anti-aliasing mode (or even disable it). It's the small tweaks herein that will allow you to balance out performance versus image quality settings. Above the most popular and use monitor resolution at 1920x1080 pixels also known as Full HD. The cards that show 0 failed the DX12 feature spec and will not run in DirectX 12 modus. All cards starting at Radeon R9 285 / 380 are fine, for Nvida that's the GeForce GTX 970. We are a little puzzled as to why the GeForce GTX 960 performs so bad as it certainly isn't the onlt 2GB card tested.
Starting at 2560x1440 we see decent results at GTX 970 and R9 380. Again, this frame-rate behaviour is relative towards image quality settings. For the more hardcore PC gamers a preferred resolution is WQHD which is short for Wide Quad HD, a resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. Let's just call this the more more sexy resolution opposed to the ever so popular Full HD.
And above that colossal resolution we call Ultra HD. Ultra HD gaming is commonly addressed as Ultra HD, UHD or 4K, this resolution refers to the ultra-high resolutions with approximately 4000 horizontal pixels. Ultra HD resolution also has four times the number of pixels of a typical 1920x1080 resolution. We see that the Fury X now flexes muscle a better, Nvidia leads the pack with the new 1080 followed by the 1070.
