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DX11: BattleForgeBattleForge is free Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) developed by EA Phenomic with DirectX-11 graphics capability. Combining strategic cooperative battles, the community of MMO games, and trading card gameplay, BattleForge players are free to put their creatures, spells and buildings into combination's they see fit. These units are represented in the form of digital cards from which you build your own unique army. With minimal resources and a custom tech tree to manage, the gameplay is unbelievably accessible and action-packed. Benchmark Reviews uses the built-in graphics benchmark to measure performance in BattleForge, using Very High quality settings (detail) and 8x anti-aliasing with auto multi-threading enabled. BattleForge is one of the first titles to take advantage of DirectX-11 in Windows 7, and offers a very robust color range throughout the busy battleground landscape. The charted results illustrate how performance measures-up between video cards when Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) is enabled.
Cost Analysis: BattleForge (1680x1050)Test Summary: With an unbiased appetite for raw DirectX-11 graphics performance BattleForge appears to be ambiguous towards ATI and NVIDIA products, even despite advertised sponsorship from AMD. When high-strain SSAO and 8x anti-aliasing applied, the reference NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 trumps ATI's Radeon HD 5830 at both test resolutions by nearly 12-FPS. Overclock the GF104 by 90MHz and you get the PNY GTX 460 XLR8, which goes on to topple the ATI Radeon HD 5850 yet again. An improved FPS performance gives the 1GB GeForce GTX 460 excellent value of the bunch, but the PNY GTX 460 XLR8 offers the best value... again. Two consistent trends have been established, proving that the GTX460-OC beats the ATI Radeon HD 5850 video card while providing the best value of them all.
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Comments
How do they compare in performance and noise?
In terms of noise, there's almost none... as in no audible sound. Even with the fan turned to 100% power, the PNY cooler is extremely quiet.
Also, PNY has a RMA graphics card promotion specifically for BFG customers. Send in your BFG card, whether it works or not, and you'll receive a 25 percent discount on select PNY video cards. They'll also throw-in "Just Cause 2" from Square Enix by way of an online download redemption code. So those of you left holding the bag with BFG cards that malfunctioned, can get a better deal than the rest of us with PNY, and a free game. Visit PNY.com or call PNY directly at 1-888-316-1193. The promotion runs until October 31, 2010.
The GTX 460 Hawk review will be posted soon.
You're right though, I haven't been making mention of the sound levels. I'll update my articles to make note of this. Thanks.
In Metro 2033, the two results are 1920x1200 and 1680x1050. I've since replaced the chart with an updated image.
People mention noise a lot with cards, I don't mind noise, i want the fan speed. Any help would be appreciated.
Yeah. EVGA and Gigabyte have released BIOS for their respective cards. Their BIOS allow the cards to go to "maximum" speed (theirs is stuck at 70% before the update)while PNY hasn't. Initially my card would stay about 68C before. Even while the card was overclocked. But for a couple of days now, even with my same overclock settings, the card will get to 80C and crash the game out. I purchased the card the Friday after Thanksgiving. So I got them recently.
Note, when not overclocked the temps get about 70C under a full load.
So the moral of the story is don't purchase these cards to replace your 9800GTs in SLI unless you are sure you have enough connectors from your existing PS, or unless you are replacining your PS as well.