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Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H Motherboard Review - AMD 890GX

Manufacturer: Gigabyte
Product: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H
Date: Tue, Mar 02, 2010 - 08:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Stalker Call of Pripyat DX11 Performance Benchmark

The events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat unfold shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl following the ending in which Strelok destroys the C-Consciousness. Having discovered the open path to the Zone's center, the government decides to stage a large-scale operation to take control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat utilizes the XRAY 1.6 Engine, allowing advanced modern graphical features through the use of DirectX 11 to be fully integrated; one outstanding feature being the inclusion of real-time GPU tessellation. Regions and maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent. There is also extensive support for older versions of DirectX, meaning that Call of Pripyat is also compatible with older DirectX 8, 9, 10 and 10.1 graphics cards.

Stalker Call of Pripyat DX11 Performance Benchmark

The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: CoP has no internal benchmarking tools built into the game engine, but they do have a standalone benchmark available that we used for our testing purposes. The screen capture above shows the main window of the benchmark with our settings. Notice we are running Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting "DX10" as our renderer.

Stalker Call of Pripyat DX11 Performance Benchmark

Results: We were shocked to see the integrated graphics running at nearly 30FPS on this benchmark as we had enhanced full dynamic lighting (DX10) enabled, which isn't the lowest setting possible. With integrated graphics we see a 1FPS difference between the boards, which isn't significant. With the Radeon HD 5870 installed in the system the Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H performed slightly better than the ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 motherboard once again.  It's safe to say that the Gigabyte 890GX motherboard has better discrete graphics performance for one reason or another.

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Review Index
Page 1 - AMD Launched The 890GX Chipset
Page 2 - Gigabyte Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H Layout
Page 4 - Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H BIOS
Page 5 - The Test System
Page 6 - Sandra 2010 Memory Bandwidth
Page 7 - Cinebench 11.5
Page 8 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 9 - PCMark Vantage
Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 11 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - USB 3.0 Testing
Page 13 - SATA 6Gbps Testing
Page 14 - Overclocking and AoD 3.1
Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions