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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Versus AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: GeForce GTX 560 Ti & AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB
Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark

We wanted to include a new benchmark for this review, so Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 was added in to see how it looked. This benchmark got some attention recently for not being neutral over the failure to use optimized code for better tessellation performance on AMD and NVIDIA cards, but that doesn't matter to us as we will be using this benchmark to look at just AMD cards.

Tom Clancy's HAWX 2

Aerial warfare has evolved. So have you. As a member of the ultra-secret H.A.W.X. 2 squadron, you are one of the chosen few, one of the truly elite. You will use finely honed reflexes, bleeding-edge technology and ultra-sophisticated aircraft - their existence denied by many governments - to dominate the skies. You will do so by mastering every nuance of the world's finest combat aircraft. You will slip into enemy territory undetected, deliver a crippling blow and escape before he can summon a response. You will use your superior technology to decimate the enemy from afar, then draw him in close for a pulse-pounding dogfight. And you will use your steel nerve to successfully execute night raids, aerial refueling and more. You will do all this with professionalism, skill and consummate lethality. Because you are a member of H.A.W.X. 2 and you are one of the finest military aviators the world has ever known. H.A.W.X. 2 is due out on November 16, 2010 for PC gamers.

Tom Clancy's HAWX 2

We ran the benchmark in DX11 mode and cranked up all the Antialiasing and Advanced image quality settings. We also enabled hardware tessellation as without that setting turned on the cards were getting well over 120FPS at a resolution of 1920x1200 and over 160FPS at 1280x1025. We wanted to stress the cards a bit and enabling tessellation appeared to do the trick as you'll see below.

Tom Clancy's HAWX 2 Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: HAWX 2 shows the Radeon HD 6950 1GB was slower than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti series reference video card.

Next Page - 3DMark Vantage


Review Index
Page 1 - NVIDIA Brings Titanium Back!
Page 2 - A Closer Look At The GeForce GTX560 Ti
Page 3 - A Closer Look At The Radeon HD 6950 1GB
Page 4 - Test Setup
Page 5 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 6 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
Page 7 - Just Cause 2
Page 8 - Metro 2033
Page 9 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 11 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 12 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 13 - 3DMark 11
Page 14 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 15 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 16 - Temperature Testing
Page 17 - Power Consumption
Page 18 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU Overclocking
Page 19 - AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB GPU Overclocking
Page 20 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions