ATI Video: DX10.1 improves FPS

According to their video:

Battleforge showed 22% improvement

HAWX showed 21% improvement

Stormrise showed 25% improvement

Here is the video:

Usually these kinds of videos are meant for marketing, and may not represent the entire truth. Since this video looked legit with FRAPS counter, I went to my testbed and decided to test out HAWX as that is the only DX10.1 game they tested that is available to me with my newly acquired Diamond HD4890 XOC.

I am happy to report that DX10.1 does indeed provide performance benefit over DX10. I saw a 13% improvement in average FPS. This may be largely due to using a CPU limited resolution i.e. 1280×1024. I think perhaps testing at a higher resolution, we might even see more performance improvement.

My Test System:

Intel Q9450 @ 3.2 GHz

GIGABYTE EX-38 DS4

GeIL 4GB(2x2GB) 800MHz 5-4-4-12

Diamond HD4890 XOC 925MHz/1050 MHz(4200 MHz effective) 1GB GDDR5

Cooler Master Silent Pro 600M 600W

Cooler Master Sniper Case (PS and Case supplied by Cooler Master)

HAWX test settings:

Results:

Here at ABT we believe in providing you, our valued reader, as much information as possible.  In addition to Bar Graphs, I will try to add line graphs showing Instantaneous FPS and also add one more unique feature to my reviews which hopefully we will be the first to feature. Using Rivatuner’s Hardware monitoring module, I would like to show you how a game uses CPU Cores, GPU Temperature, Fan Speed %age, RAM, Page File, and GPU usage (possible in ATI cards only). Here’s a sample of what I am talking about:

We will try to test this game at other resolutions and report back with any further changes for you.