One of the issues with doing a video card review using DirectX 11 games is the vast majority of the video cards on the market use DirectX 10.1 or DirectX 10.0 features with only the ATI HD 5xxx series supporting DX 11. While much of the support is currently very limited, testing on DX 10.1 cards is done using the best available settings for that card and not comparable to the DX11 cards.
Test System
- Core i7 920 CPU running 2.66GHz standard
- Intel DX58SO motherboard running latest drivers and BIOS
- ECS GeForce GT 240 512MB DDR5 HDMI running 195.55 Forceware beta drivers
- 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
DirectX 9.0
- 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
