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| Written by Olin Coles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, 22 March 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DX11: Batman Arkham CityBatman: Arkham City is a 3d-person action game that adheres to story line previously set forth in Batman: Arkham Asylum, which launched for game consoles and PC back in 2009. Based on an updated Unreal Engine 3 game engine, Batman: Arkham City enjoys DirectX 11 graphics which uses multi-threaded rendering to produce life-like tessellation effects. While gaming console versions of Batman: Arkham City deliver high-definition graphics at either 720p or 1080i, you'll only get the high-quality graphics and special effects on PC. In an age when developers give game consoles priority over PC, it's becoming difficult to find games that show off the stunning visual effects and lifelike quality possible from modern graphics cards. Fortunately Batman: Arkham City is a game that does amazingly well on both platforms, while at the same time making it possible to cripple the most advanced graphics card on the planet by offering extremely demanding NVIDIA 32x CSAA and full PhysX capability. Also available to PC users (with NVIDIA graphics) is FXAA, a shader based image filter that achieves similar results to MSAA yet requires less memory and processing power. Batman: Arkham City offers varying levels of PhysX effects, each with its own set of hardware requirements. You can turn PhysX off, or enable 'Normal levels which introduce GPU-accelerated PhysX elements such as Debris Particles, Volumetric Smoke, and Destructible Environments into the game, while the 'High' setting adds real-time cloth and paper simulation. Particles exist everywhere in real life, and this PhysX effect is seen in many aspects of game to add back that same sense of realism. For PC gamers who are enthusiastic about graphics quality, don't skimp on PhysX. DirectX 11 makes it possible to enjoy many of these effects, and PhysX helps bring them to life in the game.
Batman: Arkham City Benchmark Test Results
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Comments
Peace out
tahati beats gk104 by 10 to over 500%. Nv castrated direct computer in gk104.
I guess my question is this. My monitor is a 60Hz LED 32" 1920x1080 with a 5ms refresh rate. I play Battlefield 3 100% of the time. If I buy this card will my experience be any different?
I can prob answer this one myself.........no. Nvidia makes great products and the nice thing is when you buy a top end card you can usually skip a generation and wait for the next knock out contender. I would say if you have a GTX480 Series to upgrade. But if you have a Single GTX580 then put on the brakes and wait for the next show.
This of course is just my opinion. This is a great article, I always like reading your stuff Olin. Thanks for the time & effort you guys put into these reviews.
now i'm BF3in' w/ 460 1Gb SLI on an (pretty old but excellent LCD) EIZO 1600/1200. high settings (not ultra). Actually i could go ultra BUT with a drastic tweak down AA and other 1, maybe 2 settings.
In BF3 my nick: mantuitoru.
Once again, good review.
Long live the competition, anyway. in this case nVidia vs AMD.
I wanna upgrade but until Nvidia (must have Phys-x) releases a single gpu card that can run Metro 2033 at max settings (4xAA,16xAF,very high quality,advanced DOF on and phys-x on) and average 60fps at 1920x1200 I guess I am stuck with my GTX480 sli for a long while.
Rumors however that this is the card was supposed to replace the 560ti but the performance was so good that they just gave it the 680 designation is very unsettling...
So...
What happened to the consumer friendly mid powered card that was supposed to be released first?
What the heck happened to the Kepler super powered card?
Better than 480 to 580 but is this just another incremental release or hardware without drivers?
Or worse yet...
Did we just get version screwed?
If this is the replacement for the gtx 560ti..
and the gtx780 is coming out at the end of this year...
Then that would be fine with me!
If the following gtx 780 benchmarks are real:
wccftech.com/leaked-nvidia-generation-performance-slide-pits-upcoming-flagship-gk100-kepler-based-geforce-gtx-780-gtx-580/
Like I said in next gen console/xbox 720 article:
Anything without the benefit of present day maxwell development is sure to lead to a another very console limiting 10 year cycle!
If this card sells well, console makers should take note and try to cut a deal with Nvidia instead of AMD. I think this is why MS and Sony were not publicizing any future commitments of delivering next-gen consoles..
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Also consider, extrapolating from your price comparison of other nVidia top end offerings, the GTX295 also came in at 500+ USD. That's pretty incredible.
this is what happens when devs dumb down the #ing games for consoles. people like me that used to upgrade every other cycle are now holding off and keeping their system alot longer. Means less PC part sales. =/ hope # will get better for us.
The game that is possible in your lifetime is only limited by the rate of hardware acceptance. ( keep buying till cinematic levels of hyper real realtime rendering is possible... after that wait until holograms become a reasonable reality? )
Even though it beats the best of the 5xx series, it's still only a mid-range card.
The REAL high performers will be out in a couple of months.
Nvidia's hype-machine got me once again.
I should know better by now.
This is a whole NEW GPU. Like Fermi was. The 670 has already been annouced and waterblock manufactors are shipping the bocks. Expect theor next release to be a lower version. Also Laptops are shipping with mobile versions. Check nVidia's homepage.
The next release will be the 780. Time range anything from 6 - 12 months. AMD could influence this.
I have my waterblock on order. I will also be SLi'ing them from about 2 months in.
Still, I'd agree GTX680 performance is better overall, and they still own the world in GPGPU.