Resident Evil 6 Benchmark – Frame Time measurement – GTX 680 vs. Titan vs. HD 7970 GHz ed.

Test Configuration

Test Configuration – Hardware

• Intel Core i7 3770K (overclocked to 4.5GHz); Turbo is on.
• EVGA Z77 FTW motherboard (Intel Z77 chipset, latest beta BIOS, PCIe 3.0 specification; CrossFire/SLI 16x+16x using Plex chip.)
• 8GB Kingston DDR3 PC1866 Kingston RAM (4×2 GB, dual-channel at 1866MHz; supplied by Kingston)
• Power Color Radeon HD 7970 (3GB, overclocked to GHz Edition speeds with Boost locked on at 1050/6000MHz)
• Nvidia GTX 680 (2GB, 1006/6008MHz, reference clocks), supplied by Nvidia
• Onboard Realtek Audio
• Two identical 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 hard drives configured and set up identically from drive image; one partition for Nvidia GeForce drivers and one for ATI Catalyst drivers
• Thermaltake ToughPower 775 W power supply unit supplied by Thermaltake
• Thermaltake Overseer RX-I full tower case, supplied by Thermaltake
• Cooler Master Seidon 240M CPU Watercooler supplied by Coolermaster
• Philips DVD SATA writer
• HP LP3065 30″ 2560×1600 60Hz display
• ASUS VG278 27″ Light Boost enabled 3D Vision 2 ready 120Hz display

Test Configuration – Software

• Resident Evil 6 stand-alone demo benchmark
• Fraps 3.5.9 full version
• Frafs Benchmark Viewer, latest beta
• ATi Catalyst 13-2 Beta6 drivers; highest quality mip-mapping set in the driver; use application settings; surface performance optimizations are off. Latest CAPs used.
• Catalyst Control Center used to set power draw to maximum for the HD 7970; clocks, voltage and fan profiles are stock for the GTX Titan and the GTX 680
• EVGA PrecisionX used to set power draw (and temperature limit for Titan) to maximum for Nvidia cards; clocks voltage and fan profile are stock
• NVIDIA GeForce Titan launch driver GeForce 314.90 & WHQL 314.79. High Quality; maximum performance
• Windows 7 64-bit; very latest updates
• Latest DirectX
• All games are patched to their latest versions.
• vsync is forced off in the control panels.
• All results show average frame rates and frame times
• Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.
• Windows 7 64, all DX9 titles were run under DX9 render paths, DX10 titles were run under DX10 render paths and DX11 titles under DX11 render paths.

The Benchmark

• Resident Evil 6 Benchmark

Resident Evil 6 Requirements:

Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows Vista/XP, Windows 7, Windows 8
• Processor: Intel CoreTM2 Duo 2.4 Ghz or better, AMD AthlonTM X2 2.8 Ghz or better
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Hard Disk Space: 16 GB free hard drive space
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS or better
• DirectX: 9.0c or greater
• Sound: Standard audio device

Recommended System Requirements

• OS: Windows Vista/XP, Windows 7, Windows 8
• Processor: Intel CoreTM 2 Quad 2.7 Ghz or better, AMD Phenon II X4 3 Ghz or better
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Hard Disk Space: 16 GB free hard drive space
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or better
• DirectX®: 9.0c or greater
• Sound: Standard audio device

Before we head to the charts to see the frame time comparison between frame time results of the Resident Evil 6 benchmark, let’s look at Frafs Benchmark Viewer and our methods for posting the charts that you will see in our frame time measurement evaluations.