Test System And Graphics Hardware – Battlefield 4 Beta Performance: 16 Graphics Cards, Benchmarked

Test System And Graphics Hardware

We all know that graphics cards like the Radeon HD 7990 require a substantial amount of power, so XFX sent along its PRO850W 80 PLUS Bronze-certified power supply. This modular PSU employs a single +12 V rail rated for 70 A. XFX claims that this unit provides 850 W of continuous power (not peak) at 50 degrees Celsius (notably higher than the inside of most enclosures).

We’ve almost exclusively eliminated mechanical disks in the lab, preferring solid-state storage for eliminating I/O-related bottlenecks. Samsung sent all of our labs 256 GB 840 Pros, so we standardize on these exceptional SSDs.

As far as testing goes, we have to use Fraps in conjunction with a predefined path for 60 seconds of recording. We planned to use our FCAT tools to report frame rates for dual-GPU solutions like the Radeon HD 7990 and GeForce GTX 690, factoring out dropped and runt frames, but this turned out to be impossible. The frame overlay only works in 32-bit applications, and the Battlefield 4 multiplayer beta is 64-bit-only.

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Test System

CPU
Intel Core i5-2550K (Sandy Bridge), Overclocked to 4.2 GHz @ 1.3 V

Motherboard
Asus P8Z77-V LX, LGA 1155, Chipset: Intel Z77M

Networking
On-Board Gigabit LAN controller

Memory
AMD Gamer Series Memory, 2 x 4 GB, 1866 MT/s, CL 9-9-9-24-1T

Graphics
GeForce 210 1 GB DDR3GeForce GT 630 512 MB GDDR5GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1 GB GDDR5GeForce GTX 660 2 GB GDDR5GeForce GTX 670 2 GB GDDR5GeForce GTX 770 2 GB GDDR5GeForce GTX Titan 6 GB GDDR5GeForce GTX 690 4 GB GDDR5Radeon HD 6450 512 MB GDDR5Radeon HD 6670 512 MB DDR3Radeon HD 7770 1 GB GDDR5Radeon HD 7790 1 GB GDDR5Radeon HD 7870 2 GB GDDR5Radeon HD 7950 Boost 3 GB GDDR5Radeon HD 7970 3 GB GDDR5Radeon HD 7990 6 GB GDDR5

Hard Drive
Samsung 840 Pro, 256 GB SSD, SATA 6Gb/s

Power
XFX PRO850W, ATX12V, EPS12V

Software and Drivers

Operating System
Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64

DirectX
DirectX 11

Graphics Drivers
AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta 2, Nvidia GeForce 331.40 Beta

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Benchmarks

Battlefield 4Multiplayer beta
Custom THG Benchmark, 60-second Fraps runMap: Siege of Shanghai, Game Type: Domination

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