DirectX 11: graphics card performance Full HD

We test at both HIGH and Ultra quality settings. Excited as I was I enabled Ultra quality mode and realized, hardly any card can deal with it. your sweet spot is HIGH quality settings. 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.

Above you can see resolution scaling versus image quality settings, each step downwards in quality e.g. going from Ultra to Very High quality bring significant performance gains. However only the most enthusiast (powerful) card can handle Very HIGH and Ultra Quality settings. All mainstream to high cards are advised to run at HIGH quality settings up-to 2560x1440. Believe it or not, above you see the new Pascal based Titan X at work, just look at the Ultra HD line and have your eyes browses frown. But let's start the benchmarks at Full HD.

 
 **  light blue is HIGH quality, dark blue is ULTRA quality. 

The type of game you play is always relevant though, an first person shooter game is nice at 50 to 60 fps , an online shooter on a 144Hz monitor feels better at 100+ fps. And totally on the opposing side, for RPG gaming things are different for which we are comfortable with an FPS ranging as low as 30~35 FPS. For Deus 40 FPS should be your sweet spot minimum. So gaming below 40 FPS is consider to be poor. At all times if your framerate is low, you can opt to change in-game image quality settings. 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.