GeForce 320.00 Beta Performance Analysis – Part 2 – GTX 690 and 680 SLI

As part of a regular feature for AlienBabelTech, this editor is comparing the performance of 32 benchmarks with last week’s GeForce Beta 320.00 driver release versus the latest WHQL GeForce 314.22 divers. We already gave you GTX 680 and GeForce Titan results in Part 1, and now we have added GTX 690 and GTX 680 SLI performance results in this Part 2.  Since last, we have also added BioShock: Infinite results for all of the cards .

We are going to test GeForce 320.00 using our current benchmark suite of 26 games plus 5 synthetic benchmarks. Our testing platform is Windows 7 64-bit, using Intel Core i7-3770K at 4.50GHz, EVGA Z77FTW motherboard and 16GB of Kingston “Beast” HyperX RAM at 2133MHz, and the settings and hardware are identical except for the drivers being tested.

The GTX 680, GeForce Titan, GTX 690 and GTX 680 SLI are tested at higher settings and resolutions generally than we test midrange cards. All of our games are now tested at two resolutions: 2560×1600 and 1920×1080 at 60Hz, and we use DX11/10/10.1 whenever possible with a very strong emphasis on the latest DX11 games.

Let’s get right to the test configuration, the driver release notes and the tests.