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MSI GeForce N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5 Overclocked Video Card Review
| Manufacturer: | Micro-Star International |
| Product: | N460GTX Cyclone 1GD5 OC |
| Date: | Wed, Aug 04, 2010 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
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.
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 "DX11" as our renderer.
Under the advanced settings we enabled tessellation and 4x MSAA. We didn't enable ambient occlusion as we wanted to use these test settings for mainstream cards down the road and these settings should be tough enough to stress any and all DX11 enabled video cards.
The benchmark gives you results for four different lighting scenarios and the easiest on graphics cards are the 'day' settings, so we will start there. The MSI N460GTX Cyclone 1GB video card was 4.5% faster than the NVIDIA reference design in Stalker at a screen resolution of 1920x1200.
We wanted to bring you the benchmark numbers from the sunshaft scene as well since it is the toughest on video cards, but NVIDIA has a driver bug on that scene with both the 258.73 and 258.80 drivers when run with AA. They are aware of the issue, which is isolated to this specific test when run with any level of AA. They expect a fix shortly.
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Page 1 - The MSI N460GTX Cyclone Video Card
Page 2 - A Closer Look at the N460GTX Cyclone Page 3 - Retail Box and Bundle Page 4 - GeForce GTX 460 Test Settings 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 - MSI GeForce GTX 460 1GB Overclocking Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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