ATI CrossFireX Preview – Triple CrossFire Benchmarking

BioShock

BioShock is a game published by 2K Boston/2K Australia, and designed by Ken Levine. The game is a PC and Xbox 360 title released on August 21, 2007 in North America. BioShock is a first-person shooter with role-playing game customization elements that was developed using the Unreal Engine 3.0 and is a DirectX 10 game title that is multithreaded.

Since 2K didn’t include a benchmark script or utility in BIOSHOCK, I used FRAPS version 2.9.2 to capture the frame rates for 240 seconds at scenes that I personally selected from the game. If you don’t know anything about Bioshock, let me set the scene for you: After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into Rapture, a city hidden beneath the sea. Constructed as an idealistic society for a hand picked group of scientists, artists and industrialists, the idealism is no more. Now the city is littered with corpses, wildly powerful guardians roam the corridors as little girls loot the dead, and genetically mutated citizens ambush you at every turn and you get to kill them. Let’s look at the benchmark results!

Benchmark Results: The results from BioShock are close to what we saw with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as moving from CrossFire to CrossFireX resulted in a 34% performance increase. With CrossFireX the game BioShock was finally smooth with the in-game settings at high and the resultion at 1920×1200. Those with 24″ or larger monitors will finally be able to play stutter free at high resolutions thanks to 3-way and 4-way CrossFireX.