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Review: GeForce GTX 680 vs. Radeon HD 7970 at same clocks

by Tarinder Sandhu on 30 March 2012, 09:21

Tags: NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Benchmarks - Crysis 2

Review: HEXUS.net/qa5cd | Where2buy: amazon.co.uk
Homepage: ea.com/crysis-2 | Publisher: Electronic Arts | Developer: Crytek

Crysis 2 may not have lived up to the expectations set by its predecessor, but with the DX11 patch and high-res textures, it's a gorgeous-looking game.

Normalised performance at 19x12 GTX 680 HD 7970 @ 680 speeds HD 7970
100% 89.1% 81.3%

Normalised performance at 25x16 GTX 680 HD 7970 @ 680 speeds HD 7970
100% 94.4% 86.1%

The GeForce's comparative lack of memory bandwidth and back-end ROPs brings the Radeons into play at the higher setting. Again, without knowing which GPU was in the box it is difficult to differentiate the two.