Three-screen benchmarks - Batman: Arkham City
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Review: HEXUS.net/qa7so | Where2buy: amazon.co.uk |
Homepage: batmanarkhamcity.com/ | Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment | Developer: Rocksteady Studios |
Batman: Arkham City is a class above many games in the action-adventure genre, marrying gorgeous graphics and strong level design with potent storytelling and a kick-ass selection of gadgets and moves. It looks great in DX11, too.
No surprises to see the Radeons keep their lead intact at 5,760x1,080-resolution testing. What's more, the TOXIC card maintains 43 per cent of its 1080p performance while the GTX 680 OC manages 38 per cent.
The performance drop-off is consistent with where the benchmark changes scenes. Again, looking at the evidence, we'd say the TOXIC is faster than the HD 7970 GHz Edition by dint of its higher frequencies alone.
Sapphire's TOXIC is the fastest of the trio, clearly, as it manages to produce sub-20ms frames almost one-quarter of the time; the other two cards can barely manage a few equivalent frames between them.
Playing through the game, the TOXIC-rendered gameplay feels smoother than the GHz Edition's, but this is most likely due to the extra speed. There's no obvious, incontrovertible evidence that the 6GB framebuffer is coming into play.
