Introducing Galaxy’s GTS 450 SuperOverclock
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham Asylum is an action-adventure/stealth video game based on DC Comics’ Batman. Arkham Asylum as written by veteran Batman writer Paul Dini is based directly on the long-running comic book’s Dark Knight character. The Joker devised an elaborate plot from inside Arkham Asylum that Batman is personally forced to put a stop to. The game’s primary characters are superbly voiced by the actors Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill and Arleen Sorkin who reprise their roles as Batman, the Joker and Harley Quinn.
The game is played as an over-the-shoulder, third-person perspective action-adventure game with a primary focus on Batman’s combat abilities, stealth, detective skills and complete with an arsenal of gadgets that can be used in both combat and as exploring in “detective mode”.The game uses a “Freeflow” combat system as well as the ability to use Batarangs and the Bat-Claw. The player also has access to progressively stronger counter attacks as well as a special attack that can quickly take down a single foe. Stealth tactics includes silent takedowns by sneaking up on foes including dropping and/or gliding from overhead perches.
Batman: Arkham Asylum uses a highly modified version of the Unreal Engine 3. It does not support AA natively but must be added in and supported by the game’s developer. Unfortunately we cannot compare Batman: Arkham Asylum using our GeForce exactly against the our Radeon with AA enabled on both cards. Nor can we compare these two video cards with PhysX on. Because of these unequal settings, we will not compare them exactly against the other; and for the GTS 450, we will also show performance with PhysX on ‘high’ vs ‘off’.
Here we see the settings are different. Using a Radeon, you will get a warning if you try to set Hardware Accelerated Physics to anything other than ‘off’. Ignoring the warning and setting our HD 5870 to the in-between “normal” physics setting, the frame rates are cut by almost 90% at 1680×1050 resolution – literally down from an average of 200 frames per second to about twenty!!
We also see that we need to set anti-aliasing in the ATI control panel to use it at all with our HD 5750 or HD 5870 (above). Of course, if we do that, we will get a higher performance penalty with this “brute force” AA enhancement than we will with the GTS 450 as it is optimized to run with AA in-game by the developer.
The GeForce is optimized to run with PhysX and it takes a relatively small performance hit, remaining playable at the highest resolution and with 8xAA plus with every detail fully maxed out. The Radeon cannot run with any physics without killing performance and there is a much higher performance hit by forcing AA in the control panel. If you are going to play this game and you want the ultimate experience, you will need a GTX 4X0-based video card.
However, we will attempt as close a comparison as possible. For all of our benches, the settings are the highest including with 4xAA for all cards, beginning with 1440×900:
The HD 5750 falls behind as AA is enabled. GTS 450 is quite satisfactory until PhysX “high” is enabled and then the play becomes a bit more marginal with a few slowdowns. And now at 1680×1050:
You would not want to use PhysX on high with a single GTS 450 at 1680×1050. In every other respect, gameplay is fine at that resolution with either the HD 5750 or any GTS 450 with maxed settings plus 4xAA:
There is absolutely no problem playing this game fully maxed out with any of our top videocard configurations. The GTS 450 SLI comes close to HD 5870 performance and the performance hit from enabling PhysX comes close to what the GTX 480 experiences.
It’s a phenomenal review!! I loved how you compared it with a 5750 and my old 8800GTX, plus how you did 450’s in SLI versus 5870 and GTX 480. And the fully-rounded arsenal of games is icing on the cake!
Awesome review, very cool that you added 8800GTX. I was considering swapping mine out for the 450 originally.
i used the mother board MSI 880GM-E43 and A video card GTS 450 my question is what power supply should we used the 600W or 800W pls help me coz got problem in my video card the fan run slowly i just buy it now i used 600w power supply but my game got black screen everytime i play after 2minuts
This is a question best asked and answered in our forums:
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However, either PSU is probably sufficient if they are of reasonable quality and not defective. The card’s fan speed is variable, depending on the temperatures. Use Galaxy’s Xtreme HD Tuner or EVGA precision tool to monitor temperatures.
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