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Review: EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Classified 4GB

by Tarinder Sandhu on 31 July 2012, 12:46 4.0

Tags: EVGA, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Benchmarks - Total War: Shogun 2

Where2buy: amazon.co.uk
Homepage: totalwar.com/shogun2 | Publisher: Sega | Developer: The Creative Assembly

Praised both by critics and gamers, the latest instalment of the Total War series takes strategy enthusiasts back to 16th-century Japan and presents a lavish blend of 3D real-time battles and turn-based management.

The EVGA takes top place, just, at both single- and three-screen gaming. 5,760x1,080-pixel rendering ain't a pretty sight at Ultra quality levels.

The EVGA Classified 4GB does appear to be smoother in the middle part of the test; its framerate is locked at 19fps.

Producing sub-33ms frames seven per cent of the time and barely spitting out any sub-20ms frames, the game's settings need to be readjusted if running on three screens. Contrary to the suggestion that a larger framebuffer helps, the game uses a maximum 1,617MB of video-card memory.