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The Performance Review Of AMD Radeon HD 7790 And Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST (Part 2)

7/3/2013 9:20:31 AM

Besides competing with each other, the Radeon HD 7790 and GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost will be compared with similar priced products. Radeon HD 7850 is represented by a product from the HIS whereas the Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition is a reference card from AMD.

Radeon HIS HD 7850

Radeon HIS HD 7850

TechPowerUp GPU-Z 0.6.9

TechPowerUp GPU-Z 0.6.9

The screenshot of Radeon HIS HD 7850 shows an increased GPU frequency, but we dropped it to the standard level (840 MHz) for our testing.

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost is bracketed in Nvidia’s hierarchy by the GeForce GTX 660, represented in this review by an ASUS's product and by the ordinary GeForce GTX 650 Ti which is represented by a Gigabyte card.

Comparable represented products

Comparable represented products

TechPowerUp GPU-Z 0.6.9

TechPowerUp GPU-Z 0.6.9

As you can see, we have tested them at standard clock rates.

In order to lower the dependence of the graphics cards performance on the overall platform speed, I overclocked our 32 nm six-core CPU with the multiplier set at 48x, BCLK frequency set at 100 MHz and “Load-Line Calibration” enabled to 4.8 GHz. The processor Vcore was increased to 1,385 V in the mainboard BIOS:

AEDA64-CPUID

AEDA64-CPUID

Hyper-Threading technology was enabled.  16 GB of system DDR3 memory worked at 2.133 GHz frequency with 9-11-10-28 timings and 1.65V voltage.

The test session started on March 31, 2013. All tests were performed in Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 with all critical updates as of that date and the following drivers:

·         Intel Chipset Drivers 9.4.0.1017 WHQL from 02/07/2013 for the mainboard chipset;

·         DirectX End-User Runtimes libraries from November 30, 2010

·         AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta 3 driver from 03/20/2013 + Catalyst Application Profiles 12.11 (CAP2) for AMD based graphics cards

·         Nvidia GeForce 314.22 WHQL driver from 03/25/2013 for Nvidia based graphics cards

Since we are discussing lower performance graphics cards, we only tested them in a single resolution – 1,920x1,080. Lower resolutions start making less sense to look at because Full HD monitors are getting more and more affordable. The tests were conducted with two image quality modes: “Quality+AF16x” – default texturing quality in the drivers with enabled 16x anisotropic filtering and “Quality+ AF16x+MSAA 4x” with enabled 16x anisotropic filtering and full screen 4x antialiasing. We also enabled anisotropic filtering and full-screen anti-aliasing from the game settings.  If the corresponding options were missing, we changed these settings in the Control Panels of Catalyst and GeForce drivers. Here, we also disabled Vsync. Without any other changes in the driver settings.

As usual, we have expanded and updated our benchmarking system. We remove the Unigine Heaven benchmark, which is practically duplicating the newer Valley test. Moreover besides the previously added Resident Evil 6, Crysis 3 and Tomb Raider (2013), we also included in the new game known as StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm and BioShock Infinite. Of course, we haven’t forgotten about all the latest updates, which are current at the time of tests. Up to now, our benchmarking suite includes two popular semi-synthetic benchmarks, one demo and 15 resource-consuming games of various genres:

·         3DMark 2011 (DirectX 11) – version 1.0.3.0, Performance and Extreme profiles;

·         3DMark 2013 (DirectX 9/11) – version 1.0, benchmarks in “Cloud Gate”, “Fire Strike” and “Fire Strike Extreme” scenes

·         Unigine Valley Bench (DirectX 11) – version 1.0, maximum image quality settings, AF16x and(or) MSAA 4x, 1,980x1,080 resolution

·         Resident Evil 6 Bench (DirectX 9) – version 1.0, all settings adjusted for maximum quality, FXAA3HQ antialiasing, Blur enabled, 1,920x1,080 and 2,560x1,440 resolutions;

·         S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (DirectX 11) – version 1.6.02, Enhanced Dynamic DX11 Lighting profile with all parameters manually set at their maximums, we used our custom cop03 demo on the Backwater map

·         Metro 2033: The Last Refuge (DirectX 10/11) - version 1.2, maximum graphics quality settings, official benchmark, “High” image quality settings; tesselation, DOF and MSAA4x disabled; AAA aliasing enabled, two consecutive runs of the “Frontline” scene

·         Aliens vs. Predator (2010) (DirectX 11) – Texture Quality “Very High”, Shadow Quality “High”, SSAO On, two test runs in each resolution

·         Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai (DirectX 11) – version 1.1.0, built-in benchmark (Sekigahara battle) at maximum graphics quality settings and enabled MSAA 8x in one of the test modes

·         Crysis 2 (DirectX 11) – version 1.9, we used Adrenaline Crysis 2 Benchmark Tool v.1.0.1.14. BETA with “Ultra High” graphics quality profile and activated HD textures, two runs of a demo recorded on “Times Square” level

·         Battlefield 3 (DirectX 11) – version 1.4, all image quality settings set to “Ultra”, two successive runs of a scripted scene from the beginning of the “Going Hunting” mission 110 seconds long

·         Sniper Elite V2 Benchmark (DirectX 11) – version 1.05, we used Adrenaline Sniper Elite V2 Benchmark Tool v1.0.0.2 BETA with maximum graphics quality settings (“Ultra” profile), Advanced Shadows: HIGH, Ambient Occlusion: ON, Stereo 3D: OFF, two sequential test runs

·         Sleeping Dogs (DirectX 11) – version 1.5, we used Adrenaline Sleeping Dogs Benchmark Tool v1.0.0.3 BETA with maximum image quality settings, Hi-Res Textures pack installed, FPS Limiter and V-Sync disabled, two consecutive runs of the built-in benchmark with quality antialiasing at Normal and Extreme levels

·         F1 2012 (DirectX 11) – update 10, we used Adrenaline Racing Benchmark Tool v1.0.0.13 with “Ultra” image quality settings during two laps on Brazilian “Interlagos” race track with 24 other cars and a drizzling rain; we also used “Bonnet” camera mode

·         Borderlands 2 (DirectX 9) – version 1.3.1, built-in benchmark with maximum image quality settings and maximum PhysX level, FXAA enabled

·         Hitman: Absolution (DirectX 11) – version 1.0.446.0, built-in test with Ultra image quality settings, with enabled tessellation, FXAA and global lighting

·         Crysis 3 (DirectX 11) – version 1.0.1.3, all graphics quality settings at maximum, Motion Blur amount – Medium, lens flares – on, FXAA and MSAA4x modes enabled, two consecutive runs of a scripted scene from the beginning of the “Swamp” mission 110 seconds long

·         Tomb Raider (2013) (DirectX 11) – version 1.1.732.1, all image quality settings set to “Ultra”, V-Sync disabled, FXAA and 2x SSAA antialiasing enabled, TessFX technology activated, two consecutive runs of the benchmark built into the game

·         StarCraft II” Heart of the Swam (DirectX 10) – version 2.0.6.25180, texture quality settings at “Ultra”, all other image quality settings at maximum, two consecutive runs of the pre-recorded demo with a mass battle 110 seconds long

·         BioShock Infinite (DirectX 11) – version 1.1.21.26939, we used Adrenaline Action Benchmark Tool v1.0.2.1, two consecutive runs of the built-in benchmark with “Ultra” and “Ultra+DOF” quality settings

If the games allow recording the minimum fps, they will be added to the diagram. We ran each game test or benchmark twice and took the best result for the diagrams, but only if the difference between them didn’t exceed 1% If it did exceeds 1%, we ran the tests at least one more time to achieve repeatability of results.

 

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