Gadgetory

how's it going guys so generally it is a rule of thumb to never let your frame rate dipped below 30 FPS when you're playing a video game however just because you might be achieving an average FPS of 30 or above doesn't necessarily mean that your frame 8 never dips below 30 because there are certain graphically intensive moments in your game that might cause it to drop down just like that so with that said I'm going to be benchmarking three different cards today and seeing what the highest optimal settings each of them can operate at in crysis 3 before the frame rate ever dips below 30 so this I know this is kind of a experimental benchmarking video that I'm doing here but hopefully by the end of it you'll have a better idea of which settings you should be operating at to play crysis 3 smoothly and consistently and this is especially going to be relevant to those of you who actually own one of the cards that i'm testing today so with that said why don't we take a look at the benchmark loop that I ran for all of these tests okay so this is literally the first mission of the campaign but it has a ton of shadows and several explosive barrels that actually produce quite a bit of smoke and particle effects I'm also happy to announce that I did run this test at both 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1600 resolutions unfortunately I didn't buy a high res panel or anything like that guys I'm just borrowing it from a friend or so he thinks for my testing procedure I initially ran each of the cards at max settings and gradually scaled them back until the minimum frame rate was just above 30 FPS at that point i left the settings alone and proceeded to run this loop five times for each card at both resolutions after benchmarking all the runs with fraps I simply took the average min Max and average frame rates and package them all nicely into a pretty chart which i'm going to show you in a second so we'll let the rest of this loop finish out and then we'll go over the hardware i use Flame I just Caleb okay so if you guys have been keeping up with my recent videos you'll notice that this slide looks quite a bit different than what it usually does and that's simply because I got a hold of some pretty awesome high-end hardware that I'm really just borrowing like the high res panel that I mentioned earlier so you can see here I've temporarily upgraded to a 30 960 X as well as an asus rampage for formula and 16 gigs of awesome g.skill trident x clocked at 1600 megahertz and the cards that I used for this test were the geforce gtx titan the reference gtx 680 as well as the reference radeon HD 7970 and you can see I've updated to the latest drivers and all that jazz but moving on to our first test at 1920 x 1080 you can see here that the titan even when overclocked was a just barely this is super close to achieving full max settings but i did have to bump down the ass tropic filtering to 8x when crysis 3 gives you the option to go all the way up to 16 x but you can see there i still got 53.8 frames per second on average and the car does come with its temp target already set at 80 degrees so you can see that there in red all the max attempts by the way are there listed in red next to their respective cards by moving on to the reference gtx 680 actually why don't we just talk about that and the 7970 together because they kind of go hand in hand on this slide you can see that all the settings for both cards are exactly the same but if you look to the chart to the right you can see that the 680 clearly did better as far as frames per second go so it got 66.1 on average whereas the 7970 was only able to achieve 60.1 frames per second with the same settings now 2560 by 1600 resolution this is where I really started to have to make some sacrifices with the Titan even overclocked I had to pump down all the system specs to high as well as the texture resolution and you can see there SMAA and anisotropic filtering both took a hit had to reduce both of those to 2x if you take a look at the average frames per second there on the right you can see that with the 680 and the 7970 they both got in the exact same score at 55.4 FPS but just like the last slide this isn't a tie because if you look at the settings for the 7970 i was able to achieve that score at four anisotropic filtering whereas a 680 had to be bumped down to 1x just to keep up but unfortunately for both cards I had to completely disable anti-aliasing and all the system specs had to be bumped down to medium all right guys and there you have it and really quickly I did want to point out that you don't have to necessarily use the same settings that i did in order to achieve those same frame rates you could have bumped down your anisotropic filtering to 4x and essentially doubled your SMA as long as it balances out you're going to get similar results as I did relatively speaking but it all really comes down to what you prioritize in your gameplay experience aside from that what do you guys think of this kind of testing do you find this kind of information useful or beneficial to you or should I stop doing it and carry on with something else I'm really curious to know so leave your thoughts in the section below and that's gonna do it for this video thank you all for watching be sure to thumbs up this video if you found it informative and yeah subscribe to awesome sauce news if you haven't already and I will see you guys in the next video