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Review: Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 (28nm Maxwell)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 19 September 2014, 03:30

Tags: NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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4K - Crysis 3

Homepage: crysis.com/crysis-3 | Publisher: Electronic Arts | Developer: Crytek

Crysis 3 is a beautiful-looking game that continues to tax high-end systems. We've benchmarked a 60-second section near the start of the game, with lashing rain, numerous reflections and full DX11 pomp on show.

We disable AA for Crysis 3 run at 4K, but even that concession has little positive impact. The engine batters the GPUs into submission.

Yup, low average framerates invariably lead to very few frames rendered within 33ms.

A GeForce GTX 980 struggles with slow frames. 62.3ms is too long, clearly, so quality settings need to be turned down a notch or two.