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Review: GeForce GTX 680 vs. Radeon HD 7970 at same clocks

by Tarinder Sandhu on 30 March 2012, 09:21

Tags: NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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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.

Normalised performance at 19x12 GTX 680 HD 7970 @ 680 speeds HD 7970
100% 94.4% 84.8%

Normalised performance at 25x16 GTX 680 HD 7970 @ 680 speeds HD 7970
100% 97.3% 86.9%

The Radeon HD 7970 is like a mutt that just won't let the GeForce bone get out of sight. Ramp up the resolution and it's practically neck-and-neck again.