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ASUS GeForce ENGTX460 TOP 768MB Video Card Review

Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: TOP/2DI/768MD5
Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Unigine 'Heaven' DX11

Unigine DirectX 11 benchmark Heaven

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.

DirectX 11 benchmark Unigine engine

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.

Unigine Heaven Benchmark

Benchmark Results: We know that when running Unigine Heaven 2.1 Benchmark at 1920x1200 on the GeForce GTX 460 768MB card it suffers a rather large performance hit since the benchmark fills up the frame buffer. The ASUS GeForce GTX 460 768MB ENGTX460 Top still managed to perform 9.5% better than the reference design, though.

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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.

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Review Index
Page 1 - The ASUS ENGTX460 Top VoltageTweak
Page 2 - The ENGTX460 Top GPU Cooler
Page 3 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 4 - ASUS Smart Doctor & Gamer OSD Utilities
Page 5 - GeForce GTX 460 Test Settings
Page 6 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 7 - Resident Evil 5
Page 8 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 9 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 10 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 11 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 12 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 13 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 14 - Power Consumption
Page 15 - Temperature Testing
Page 16 - ASUS GeForce GTX 460 768MB Overclocking
Page 17 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions