Image quality settings and benchmark system

Image quality settings and benchmark system

Before we begin with the graphics performance tests a little explanation. We use a time-based measurement based upon framerate recording. We will not be using the benchmark version, we start a scene and record a part of the level that gives us an average framerate. We use the settings as shown below:

We test at Highest quality settings enabled. We, however, disable NVIDIA Gameworks settings for fair play between the AMD and NVIDIA measurements. In this article, we, however, will test the performance effect of NVIDIA gameworks enabled both on AMD and NVIDIA cards. 

The graphics cards tested

In this article, we'll make use of the following cards at a properly good PC experience graphics quality wise, the quality mode as shown above with Vsync disabled (which needs to be done by editing a configuration file). The roughly 25 graphics cards used in this test: 

System specifications & drivers

Our test system is based on the eight-core Intel Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition with Haswell-E based setup on the X99 chipset platform. This setup is running tweaked at 4.20 GHz. Next, to that, we have energy saving functions disabled for this motherboard and processor (to ensure consistent benchmark results). We use Windows 10 all patched up. Each card runs on the same PC with the same operating system clone.

The drivers are:

• GeForce cards use the latest 391.01 drivers (download).
• Radeon graphics cards we used the latest AMD Radeon Crimson 18.2.3 Driver (download).