Benchmarks - Aliens vs. Predator
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The standalone Aliens vs. Predator benchmark uses DX11 features such as hardware tessellation and advanced shadow sampling to draw and animate everyone's favourite xenomorph.
What you're looking at is the performance of the four competing cards at three resolutions. The graph is ordered by performance at the three-screen, 5,760x1,080 setting and the pre-overclocked MSI Twin Frozr III and KFA² EX OC are highlighted in red and green, respectively. MSI's card has the slightest of leads at all resolutions.
All cards' performance roughly halves when moving from one screen to three. The downside is that while the game is silky-smooth at 1,920x1,080 it does feel sticky at times when on three screens. Do remember that our in-game settings are extremely high; it's comfortably possible to reduce them a little and still enjoy a smooth experience on a trio of panels.
Drilling down further at the 5,760x1,080 setting, we can graph up the per-second framerates of the rival MSI Radeon and KFA² GeForce cards.
It's no surprise to see the two lines closely mirror one another. The MSI performance is a little better at the end, leading to the higher average framerate, though both cards experience sticky moments in the middle of the benchmark.
