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Review: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB graphics card

by Tarinder Sandhu on 22 March 2012, 13:00 4.5

Tags: NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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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.

Percentage faster
at 2,560x1,600
HD 7970 GTX 580
18.9% 10.2%

Time to put the champagne on ice for NVIDIA? The GTX 680 should be much faster than it is, truth be told, and we're struggling to come up with reasons for its sub-par performance. Still, it's faster than the GTX 580. Perhaps NVIDIA's drivers aren't all that in this title.