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Heaven 2.5 Unigine

Finally we come to our last benchmark, Heaven 2.5, on the Unigine engine. It uses DX11 and heavy tessellation which will strain any graphics card. At least two DX11 games based on Unigine are expected to be released this year. We use the setting for “extreme tessellation” and high shaders and we also set 2xAA/16xAF.  We run it at 1920×1200 and at 2560×1600.

There is no difference between platforms and even the overclocked CPU is only marginally faster than the stock one; the frame rate depends on our video card at these settings. However, this is a synthetic benchmark and we will withhold judgment until we actually play PC games using the Unigine engine.