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so guys I'm doing my battlefield 3 benchmarking this weekend right now I've got these 6970 on the test bench so I'm using my core i7 2670 running the CPU at stock speed for this one the cards that I'm benching are the 5 95 85 75 60 TI 550 6990 69 70 69 fifty and the 68 70 so the settings I'm using are the high preset in battlefield 3 just because I wanted something that was going to be not quite so high-end that I might run into frame buffer issues I wanted to get a good idea of how the game performs on all of these GPUs relative to each other so high settings and I'm running at 1080p so my benchmark sequence is on the level I think it's called comrades something like that whatever this level is called and then as soon as I get out of the car here I'm going to start and he's gonna shoot the guy and then I'm gonna get into the car so I'll start I'll do my run-through and then I'm going to record two minutes of fraps gameplay then I play the same way every time the repeatability of this particular benchmark is can be done to within about 0.5 of a frame per second so that's what I would consider the thank you that's what I would consider to be the margin of error about 0.5 to 1 frame per second so I'm gonna follow him I'm gonna have to apologize in advance for my gameplay here my mouse sensitivity is off and can't go away ok hopefully that doesn't you know what I'll probably have to redo this run off camera but I just want to show you guys the general run-through whenever my cats don't interfere things go a little bit more smoothly so wait for the car to go and then I'm gonna go pillar to pillar and try and see if there's any guys to shoot and just keep moving up until I gain this position here at which point I will fight these guys well rather shoot while they're not looking and then I will fight the guys that come up the stairs step back here a little bit kill this guy Wow you can tell I'm playing on be easy right like one shot to the guy's hip and he goes down oh that's not usually the way I go right over here look over here come back here kill this dude now the autosave has kicked in this game was really hard to find a good place to to benchmark for two minutes straight because what I really like to have is a checkpoint so that I don't have to sit through a cinematic sequence in between GPUs every time but I wasn't able to find a single two minute long uninterrupted segment to play absolutely ridiculous and I killed those guys too quickly so I'm just gonna kind of stand here and shoot a little bit because a fraps counter shouldn't reappear until I get to about right here there it goes just like that so so yeah it was very frustrating and I do have to sit through that car sequence every time a lot of the earlier levels especially are like in the dark and like there's nothing going on but I thought this was a pretty good gameplay sequence so without further ado I will present to you guys my my graphs once I'm finished rewriting this one and then I think I still have the 60 he sent me to go so one thing that I did forget to mention when I did my initial video talking about the benchmarking procedures that I am using the latest driver so that is the catalyst 11.1 or rather 11.10 drivers from AMD and B GeForce to eighty five point six two drivers from Nvidia so these are the BLA you can read more about it this is the recommend driver from battlefield 3 and then I think on the a ATI browser AMD release notes battlefield 3 provides great crossfire scaling and resolves issues when running in crossfire mode now here comes the results and rythmic so it's here there's my graph so battlefield 3 FPS more is better I'm gonna go ahead and give AMD major props because yes their crossfire scaling is outstanding the 6990 performs on average at 114 point 8 FPS compared to the 69 70 and 60 4.2 now my 6990 was running without the OC switch enabled on it which means that that is near-perfect crossfire scaling simply outstanding rarely rarely seen that in any kind of a real-world scenario from Nvidia or from AMD so the 590 does scale but not as well as the 69 90 and then here are the rest of the cards so for these ones bear in mind that these sort of equivalent g-force and Radeon cards its equivalent in terms of performance usually the Radeon cards tend to be a little bit cheaper so I think Andy's done a great job but I look forward to seeing what Nvidia can do to optimize their cards because generally speaking the way I have it arranged is the way i'm typically expecting to see the performance line up and that is not what i observed with battlefield 3 we're seeing a serious equivalency between the 580 and the 69 70 the 570 and the 60 minute 50 and the 560 TI in the 68 70 i'd say anything above a 550 is suitable for 1080p with all high presets but the 550 ti did slow down during firefights I know I don't have minimum FPS on this particular graph but this was the only one where the minimum fps really bothered me all the rest of them provided a smooth gameplay experience and thank you for checking out my battlefield 3 performance video scene there's my notes where I have my benchmarks written down don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos