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ASUS ENGT430 GeForce GT 430 1GB DDR3 Video Card Review
| Manufacturer: | ASUS |
| Product: | GeForce GT430 - ENGT430 |
| Date: | Mon, Oct 11, 2010 - 08:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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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 knew extreme tessellation in Heaven 2.1 would kill these entry level cards and it did. The NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 was able to perform better than the Radeon HD 5570 at both resolutions, though.
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Page 1 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 Video Cards Arrive
Page 2 - A Closer Look At The ASUS GeForce GT430 Page 3 - Retail Box and Bundle Page 4 - The Test System Page 5 - Aliens vs. Predator Page 6 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Page 7 - Just Cause 2 Page 8 - Metro 2033 Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Page 10 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Page 11 - 3DMark Vantage Page 12 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11 Page 13 - FurMark 1.8.2 Page 14 - Blu-ray 3D Playback Testing Page 15 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 Overclocking Page 16 - Power Consumption Page 17 - Temperature Testing Page 18 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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