Galaxy’s GTX 560 Ti GC – Introducing Nvidia’s Titanium Hunter
Lost Planet 2
Lost Planet 2 is the sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition and is also made by Capcom. The events take place ten years after the first game and on the same, now thawed, EDN III. The PC version was released on October 12, 2010 and it runs on the MT-Framework 2.0 engine; an updated version of the engine used in several Capcom games. Campaign mode can have up to 4 players working together over the Internet. Lost Planet 2 allows players to create and customize their own characters which will allow them to unlock more things after leveling up and downloading content.
We are using the stand alone benchmark in DX11 with maximum settings. We also have the full retail game with the identical benchmark that we shall use the next time. As the game is quite demanding, we first test at 2560×1600 resolution with no AA.
Just as in the original game, none of our cards can play Lost Planet 2 at 2560×1600 at the highest settings and AA although the GTX 580 comes closest. However, we do see the GTX 570 again passing the GTX 480 while the GTX 560 Ti gets very close to the HD 6970’s performance. Let’s lower the resolution to 1920×1200, add 4xAA, and test again with all of our DX11 cards.
In this more tessellation-heavy DX11 game, the HD 6870 catches the HD 5870 (finally)! That is quite an accomplishment, however, even the overclocked GTX 460 can beat any of the Radeons by a significant margin. The GTX 580 is impressive and the GTX 570 again beats the GTX 480 and at 1920×1200, the GTX 560 Ti beats the HD 6970.
Waaah! this was one amazing review, excellent job Poppin!
I’m already thinking of upgrading my system 😛
fantastic review gives out the Clear picture which gives out what and there is no Bias of favoring nvidia or ati like we get to see on other sites
great work done !!
Hey, another stellar review–glad to see even more games. You continue to lead the web with by far the most games benchmarked.
Just curious about the Mafia II 2560×1600 results, where GTX 570 is much, much slower than GTX 480.. was it an accident with using different settings, or is it a glitch with newer drivers?
Thank-you!
In Mafia II, the GTX 570 (266.58) and the GTX 480 (263.09) are using different drivers and should not be directly compared to each other. Generally, the brand new GeForce driver set evenly brought overall excellent performance increases over the last set – but with a couple of oddities in my system.
There were three instances (out of 64 benchmarks) where the GTX 570 failed to perform as expected and where I repeated the benchmarks many times and checked and rechecked settings. I would guess that they are driver-related since they did not show in the earlier driver set.
Of course, it is possible that a resolution setting got accidentally changed between the time that I ran the first set and last weeks testing so I will retest these same benches over again. In my follow up article which is going to pit SLI versus CrossFire, we shall use the (same) latest drivers for GTX 480 and GTX 570 (for single and SLI results).
It was a resolution setting. I tested the GTX 480 at 1920×1200, not at 2560×1600. The charts have been corrected and only the competing cards tested with the very latest driver set are compared now.
Thank-you for bring this error to my attention!
“we found the GTX 460 to be just a bit cooler-running than our GTX 460”
Thank-you. Typo Fixed.
“We found the GTX 560 Ti to be just a bit cooler-running than our GTX 460.”
Article word count: 13,316 😛
“And now we test at 1920×1200:”
You then put the graph for 1680×1050 😉