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Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 3GB Vapor-X Video Card Review

Manufacturer: Sapphire
Product: 100351VXSR
Date: Thu, Oct 18, 2012 - 11:00 PM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham City PC Game

Batman: Arkham City is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by Rocksteady Studios. It is the sequel to the 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum, based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. The game was released by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The PC and Onlive version was released on November 22, 2011.

Batman: Arkham City Game Settings

Batman: Arkham City Game Settings

Batman: Arkham City uses the Unreal Engine 3 game engine with PhysX. For benchmark testing of Batman: Arkham City we disabled PhysX to keep it fair and ran the game in DirectX 11 mode with 8x MSAA enabled and all the image quality features cranked up. You can see all of the exact settings in the screen captures above.

Batman: Arkham City Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 Vapor-X topped the chart in this game and was faster than the GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7950 overclocked cards that we used for comparison!

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Review Index
Page 1 - The Sapphire HD 7970 Vapor-X GHz Edition
Page 2 - Retail Box & Bundle
Page 3 - Test System
Page 4 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 5 - Battlefield 3
Page 6 - Borderlands 2
Page 7 - Dirt: Showdown
Page 8 - Metro 2033
Page 9 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 10 - 3DMark 11
Page 11 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - Temperature & Noise Testing
Page 13 - Sapphire 7970 Vapor-X Overclocking
Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions