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Aliens Vs. Predator DX11 Benchmark ResultsRebellion, SEGA and Twentieth Century FOX have released the Aliens vs. Predator DirectX 11 Benchmark to the public. As with many of the already released DirectX 11 benchmarks, the Aliens vs. Predator DirectX 11 benchmark leverages your DirectX 11 hardware to provide an immersive game play experience through the use of DirectX 11 Tessellation and DirectX 11 Advanced Shadow features. In Aliens vs. Predator, DirectX 11 Geometry Tessellation is applied in an effective manner to enhance and more accurately depict HR Giger's famous Alien design. Through the use of a variety of adaptive schemes, applying tessellation when and where it is necessary, the perfect blend of performance and visual fidelity is achieved with at most a 4% change in performance. DirectX 11 hardware also allows for higher quality, smoother and more natural looking shadows as well. DirectX 11 Advanced Shadows allow for the rendering of high-quality shadows, with smoother, artifact-free penumbra regions, which otherwise could not be realized, again providing for a higher quality, more immersive gaming experience. Benchmark Reviews is committed to pushing the PC graphics envelope, and whenever possible we configure benchmark software to its maximum settings for our tests. In the case of Aliens vs. Predator, all cards were tested with the following settings: Texture Quality-Very High, Shadow Quality-High, HW Tessellation & Advanced Shadow Sampling-ON, Multi Sample Anti-Aliasing-4x, Anisotropic Filtering-16x, Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)-ON. You will see that this is a challenging benchmark, with all the settings turned up and a screen resolution of 1920 x 1200, as only the HD5870 cards achieved an average frame rate of 30FPS.
This is truly a DirectX11 only benchmark, so we're limited to looking at the ATI HD 5xxx series of cards I have available. The stock ATI HD 5870, with a core clock of 850 MHz just barely reached 30 FPS as an average frame rate. Using anything less than the top hardware, the scenes had a jumpy quality to them. Maybe an HD 5850 could have come close, particularly an overclocked sample, but that's about it. Overclocking the ASUS EAH5870V2 to 1000 MHz on the core bumped up the average to 32.4 FPS, and also smoothed out some of the places in the action where the minimum frame rate dropped down. This is clearly a tough benchmark, and it's very useful for testing the latest and greatest graphics hardware. Our next benchmark of the series is for a very popular FPS game that rivals Crysis for world-class graphics in a far away land.
Our next benchmark of the series puts our collection of video cards against some fresh graphics in the newly released Resident Evil 5 benchmark.
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BTW, I was reading that one of the 12V rails is dedicated to a single PCI-E connector, while the other two are sharing the current between PCI-e and the MOLEX and SATA connectors, so verify that and use the dedicated connection if you can.
I just bought this card (After reading your review), but now I'm VERY worried about if my power supply (Corsair VX550W) can handle this card...
My System:
Q9650 Stock
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
2x2GB DDR2 1066MHZ OCZ Reaper Series
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB
Zalman 9700NT
Antec 900 (4 Fans 120mm, 1 Fan 200mm)
Thank you for your consideration of this matter.
You said maximum power draw of this card is 265 (395-130) watts when running full out. What do you mean with 395 watts? Total System Power Consumption?
Maybe the power supply will work too forced? Or Maybe will work too forced if I overclock my CPU and Graphic Card?
Perhaps it will reduce the life of the power supply? I've been told when used heavily or over an extended period of time (1+ years) a power supply will slowly lose some of its initial wattage capacity.
My PSU is two years old, and I use it 24/7.
Thank you for your consideration of this matter.
What are you running on the PC during the 24/7? Is it just idling most of the time, or are you running applications that put a significant load on the PC?
At 80% load, your PSU will probably only last 10 years.....just a guess.
And Yes, Is it just idling most of the time. However, I play games almost every night and weekends. Very Demanding games like Bad Company 2 for example.
I have another question about your review. Does the CPU is also in full load? Or is it just the graphics card?
I've been thinking, and I think my supply might not be sufficient in the near future, when I change my current processor for an i7 or add a sound card, etc.. Am I right?
I dont know whether to buy a new psu or stay with the one I have.
What would you do if you were in my situation??
You can recoup some of your costs by selling the VX550, as it has a very good reputation.
I'n going to buy a new PSU, and will be a Corsair HX750 from Amazon. I think a Corsair HX850 is too much (Power and Price lol), unless I get $ 20 extra.
Thank you for everything ;)
EAH5870/2DIS/1GD5/V2
what does it meant of 2DIS-----> is that meant will just support 2 monitor???
atm i am running my system with a eah4870/512mb dk edition
wil it show a good increase in performance??