Legit Video Card Reviews
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB SC SLI Video Card Review
| Manufacturer: | eVGA |
| Product: | 768-P3-1362-AR |
| Date: | Fri, Jul 16, 2010 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
| Share: |
Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
The 'Heaven' benchmark that uses the Unigine easily shows off the full potential of DirectX 11 graphics cards. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. With the interactive mode emerging, experience of exploring the intricate world is within reach. Through its advanced renderer, Unigine is one of the first to set precedence in showcasing the art assets with tessellation, bringing compelling visual finesse, utilizing the technology to the full extent and exhibiting the possibilities of enriching 3D gaming. The distinguishing feature of the benchmark is a hardware tessellation that is a scalable technology aimed for automatic subdivision of polygons into smaller and finer pieces so that developers can gain a more detailed look of their games almost free of charge in terms of performance. Thanks to this procedure, the elaboration of the rendered image finally approaches the boundary of veridical visual perception: the virtual reality transcends conjured by your hand.
We ran the Heaven v2.1 benchmark that just recently out with VSync turned disabled, but with 8x AA and 16x AF enabled to check out system performance. We ran the benchmark at 1920x1200 and 1280x1024 to see how the benchmark ran at some different monitor resolutions. It should be noted that we ran the new extreme tessellation mode on this benchmark. These are the toughest settings that you can run on this benchmark, so it should really put the hurt on any graphics card.
Benchmark Results: We know that running Unigine Heaven 2.1 Benchmark at 1920x1200 on the GeForce GTX 460 768MB cards that it suffers a rather large performance hit since the benchmark fills up the frame buffer. The EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB SC still managed to perform 26% better than the reference design though. Once put in SLI the performance sky rocketed up by 87% at 1920x1200. At 1280x1024 the performance shot up an amazing 96%. NVIDIA has done some magic with their drivers as we have been seeing 80% and above increases in performance by running SLI!
Just for fun we opened up GPU-Z during a run of Heaven 2.1 at 1920x1200 and found that the GPU memory used was maxed out at 765MB or 100% of the available video card memory on the 768MB GTX 460.
Next Page - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
| Review Index |
|
Page 1 - GeForce GTX 460 SLI Benchmarking
Page 2 - The EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB SuperClocked Page 3 - Retail Box and Bundle Page 4 - Video Card Test System Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum Page 6 - Resident Evil 5 Page 7 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. Page 8 - 3DMark Vantage Page 9 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11 Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Page 11 - Aliens vs. Predator Page 12 - FurMark 1.8.2 Page 13 - Power Consumption Page 14 - Temperature Testing Page 15 - EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB Overclocking Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
Socialize