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Exploring “Frame time” measurement – Part 3 – the GTX 680 versus the HD 7970 GHz Edition



Aliens vs Predator AvP SS 300x187 Exploring Frame time measurement   Part 3   the GTX 680 versus the HD 7970 GHz Edition Aliens vs. Predator, known to fans as Aliens versus Predator 3 or AVP3 is a video game developed by Rebellion Developments, and published by Sega in February 2010. It is the sixth game of the Aliens versus Predator game series. There are three campaigns in the game, one for each race or faction that form one main storyline although they differ in objectives depending on your choice of campaign.

Alien vs Predators DX11 benchmark is a stand alone bench that is only for DX11 cards. It is more demanding than actually playing the game generally. We use a benchmark tool at 1920×1080 with maxed out settings plus 4xAA.

Let’s go right to the graphs and first check the basic tests with the default benchmark score using the GTX 680 and the OWC SSD

avp 680 fps Exploring Frame time measurement   Part 3   the GTX 680 versus the HD 7970 GHz Edition

Lets’s look at the frame time chart for the GTX 680.

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Now check out the frame time chart for the OWC HD 7970 at stock speeds:

avp 7970 ft Exploring Frame time measurement   Part 3   the GTX 680 versus the HD 7970 GHz Edition

Below is the HD 7970 frame time chart at GHz speedsavp 7970 GHz ft Exploring Frame time measurement   Part 3   the GTX 680 versus the HD 7970 GHz Edition Here is the GTX 680 ranking:

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Here is the HD 7970 at stock speed ranking,

avp 7970 stock rank Exploring Frame time measurement   Part 3   the GTX 680 versus the HD 7970 GHz Edition

Here is the HD 7970 at GHz speed ranking

avp 7970 GHz rank Exploring Frame time measurement   Part 3   the GTX 680 versus the HD 7970 GHz Edition

 

  • Average time: Average time across the entire run
  • 1% time: Time it takes to draw 99% of frames
  • 0.1%: Time it takes to draw 99.9% of frames

avp Exploring Frame time measurement   Part 3   the GTX 680 versus the HD 7970 GHz Edition

There is really little difference although the GeForce has a single spike that is 4ms higher than the Radeon’s.  Overclocking the HD 7970 to GHz edition clocks brings some benefits besides increasing the framerate.

Let’s on to a new game that is one of ABT’s newer benchmarks, Sleeping Dogs.

 

  • Haldi

    Nice Test. Next one will be in Crossfire/SLi ?

    Btw. You’re gonna redo this whole test parcour when AMD releases this new anti Microstutter driver ? http://techreport.com/news/24136/driver-software-blamed-for-radeon-frame-latency-troubles-to-be-fixed-with-updates

  • AlienBabelTech_1

    Thank-you. The next planned evaluation is a continuation of the GTX 680 vs HD 7970 GHz benching using the rest of our 30 game suite. We are also going to revisit these same tests after AMD releases new drivers.

  • ocre

    this was pretty great. I love the ranking. While there a a few extreme cases where AMD is obviously having issues, looking at older games we see that not all hope is lost. AMD obviously is capable of smoothness and we do see several cases where they do better than nvidia. These may be older titles but its a great sign that this is very fixable. The troubling issue is how bad AMD performs in some of these newer games. Its off the chart!
    Its especially dramatic when you look back at the games AMD was smoother in and look at the major ugly instances.

    This review shows that AMD is capable of producing smooth gaming. I think we will see them address this and perhaps the tables might turn in AMDs favor. Now wouldnt that be fun! I am getting ahead of myself here. We should wait to see how it all pans out first before i start dreaming, lol.

    Great work!!!

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