When looking at performance of a video card of the last few years Crysis is one of the benchmarks by which everyone goes “Does it get xx fps in Crysis maxed?” I decided to add the Crysis Warhead benchmark to our suite. The second game I added was the Dirt2 benchmark. This is the first true DX11 game on the market with a DX9 and a DX11 mode. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 completes our new benchmark suite giving a wide variety of the latest games. Due to time restraints I only have three cards tested on the new platform and more will be added later.
Test System
- Core i7 920 CPU running 2.66GHz standard
- Intel DX58SO motherboard running latest drivers and BIOS
- XFX RADEON HD 5970 card running Hemlock beta drivers at 725MHz core, 1000MHz memory
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs running in RAID 0 mode
- 3GB Kingston KHK1600 DDR3-1600MHz memory running at 1333MHz (Maximum memory supported by Core i7 920 CPU)
- LG 16X DVD-RW drive
- Windows 7
- Cooler Master Hyper N620 CPU Cooler
- Cooler Master Ultimate 1000W PSU
Tests
- BattleForge DirectX 10.0/11 (only on ATI 58xx cards)
- HAWX DX 10.0/10.1 (on ATI cards)
- Batman Arkham Asylum DX 10
- Resident Evil 5 DX10
- 3DMark06
- 3DMark Vantage
- Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Custom FRAPS benchmark
- Dirt2 benchmark
- Crysis Warhead FRAPs benchmark
