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Review: Three-screen GeForce GTX 680 vs. Radeon HD 7970

by Tarinder Sandhu on 2 April 2012, 10:09

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

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Benchmarks - Just Cause 2

Review: HEXUS.net/qaxqb | Where2buy: amazon.co.uk
Homepage: justcause.com | Publisher: Eidos Interactive | Developer: Avalanche Studios

Just Cause 2 is one of the older titles in our suite and uses DX10 visuals. It's no longer cutting edge, but it's still a lot of fun and can be used to cross-reference older reviews.

GTX 680 is
1,920x1,080 2,560x1,600 5,760x1,080
23.4% 11.8% 12.9%

The GTX 680's lead is cut in half when moving from 1,920x1,080 to 2,560x1,600. There is no further drop-off when running it on three screens. NVIDIA's card does better than we had expected; we guessed the Radeon would have surpassed the GeForce's 5,760x1,080 performance.

The two cards' performance is very similar. AMD's card remains that 5fps behind, as shown in the first graphs. Both GPUs have smooth performance in this title. It's one of those cases where without previous knowledge it's impossible to determine which card is in the machine.