PowerColor Radeon R7 250X 1GB Video Card Review

By Nathan Kirsch March 9, 2014

Metro Last Light

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Metro: Last Light is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ukrainian studio 4A Games and published by Deep Silver. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world and features action-oriented gameplay with a combination of survival horror elements. It uses the 4A Game engine and was released in May 2013.

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Metro: Last Light was benchmarked with very high image quality settings with the SSAA set to 2x and 4x AF. These settings are tough for entry level discrete graphics cards, but are more than playable on high-end gaming graphics cards. We benchmarked this game title on the Theater level.

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We again found around 20% CPU usage on Metro: Last Light.

Benchmark Results: In Metro: Last Light the PowerColor AXR7 250X 1GBD5-HE averaged 16 FPS at 1920×1080, which was 26% slower than the AMD Radeon R7 260X 2GB reference card.

Benchmark Results: The AMD Radeon R7 250X put up a good fight, but can’t hang with the cards that cost about $20 more as you can see in our performance over time chart.