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.
GTX 680 bulldozes past the HD 7970 in Batman: Arkham City, a not wholly unsurprisingly turn of events given that it is one of NVIDIA The Way It's Meant To Be Played (TWIMTBP) titles.
| GTX 680 is |
1,920x1,080 | 2,560x1,600 | 5,760x1,080 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35.2% | 33.3% | 38.1% |
The lead increases as we ramp up to the three-screen setup, and the GTX 680 is almost as fast at 5,760x1,080 as the Radeon is at 2,560x1,600.
GTX 680's healthy lead is also in (obvious) evidence in the frame-by-frame graph. The benchmark races through a pre-defined sequence as quickly as possible, with faster GPUs finishing before slower ones. This is why the GTX 680's line is shorter (read better).
Both cards are subject to a couple of large drops in performance at the same point in the test, by the way. The GTX 680's rendering is noticeably smoother than the Radeon's at all other times, and it's one that we can actually perceive when playing the game.
