Galaxy Nvidia GeForce GTX 465 Review
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat is first-person shooter game developed by Ukranian game developer GSC Game World and is the sequel to STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl. It is also the third game in the successful STALKER series. The events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat unfold shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is one of the first games to support Microsoft’s DirectX 11 technology and sets a new benchmark in the image quality and realism in graphics possible on the PC platform. The game developers have released an official benchmark for this game which can be downloaded from here. This benchmark is based on one of the in game locations – Pripyat . The testing process includes four stages, those utilizing various weather and time of the day settings (day, night, rain, bright sun). In order to test your system thoroughly the benchmark is provided with a number of presets and options including different versions of DirectX (9.0, 10.0, 11), screen resolutions, antialiasing etc, all at your disposal.
We are using this benchmark for this review. The results reported below are from the “Day” stage of this benchmark.
The HD 5830 surprisingly beats the GTX 465 and the HD 4890 in DX10.1 mode and the GTX 465 in DX11 mode. The GTX 465 is able to take a commanding lead over the HD 5830 in DX 10.1 mode when overclocked.
I see you had less than stellar performance in CoD 4 just like I did. For me the GTX285 outruns the GTX470, and the gap is even wider with Windows 7.
Dude, your graphs are completely screwed up. Lower numbers are sometimes showing higher bars than higher numbers and vice/versa. You have a lot more work ahead of you. This article could not possibly have been edited and proofread as there are several model number, shader number mistakes throughout the article.
Nice thorough article, but it shouldn’t have been released like this. And if somebody did edit the article, fire them. 😉
– Keys
Hey Keysplayr, I think that the “screwed up” bar charts are actually cool. I noticed that the length of the bar is the addition of the minimum frame rate plus the average, then plus the maximum.
It gives greatest emphasis on the minimum, and also greater emphasis on the average than the maximum. Say, if the minimum is really low, then it will really affect the rest of the bar. (If the game dips to the “average minimum” quite frequently, say a few times a minute or so, then I’d definitely emphasize it the most.)
Oh well, yeah, I know it’s screwed up anyways, but this is an awesome review. Didn’t know about the RE5 3D vision demo (one of my fave games and I have Stereo 3D)!!! Thanks, MrK!
Only 1 in a hundred thousand would notice those “errors”, and only 1 out of them all said anything. =P
Good article, although it would have been nice to see that card face against the 5850!
I agree Bo_Fox, this is a pretty good review and I can’t wait to get my GTX 465 to replace my aging AGP slot’d PC with a new system.
The price seems very reasonable at less than $300 at newegg
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