Exploring “Frame time” measurement – Part 3 – the GTX 680 versus the HD 7970 GHz Edition
Crysis 2
Crysis 2 is a first-person shooter developed by Crytek, published by Electronic Arts and released in March 2011 for PC and console. Crysis 2 is the DX11 sequel to the 2007 video game Crysis. It was the first game to showcase the CryEngine 3 game engine and the first to be released on consoles. It is a demanding game with excellent DX11 visuals which we ran at Ultra settings with the texture pack. Crysis 3 will be released this year.
Here are the Crysis 2 settings that we used.
The GTX 680 frame time chart is again first:
Now the HD 7970 GHz frame times. We see a many more and larger spikes in this benchmark.
Now the GTX 680 rank.
Now the HD 7970 GHz rank
- 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
There is quite a bit of difference in the evenness of frame rate delivery between the two cards. We will will note Crysis 2 for later to see if AMD makes any changes in their drivers. Let’s look at our last benchmark using the Unigine 3.0 engine.
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
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.
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!!!