Benchmarks - Far Cry 3
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Homepage: Far-cry.ubi.com | Publisher and Developer: Ubisoft.com |
Open-world gaming at its very best, Far Cry 3 redefines the genre through breathtaking visuals and first-class gameplay.
Here we go. The WindForce-equipped card is almost 10 per cent faster than the as-shipped reference model. Why is this, you may ask? Looking into the frequency and temperature is illuminating because it shows the reference cooler keeping the GPU at 83°C. The high-ish temperature limits frequency potential and therefore GPU core speed is scaled back to an average 1,006MHz - or way below the 1,111MHz Boost inferred by Gigabyte.
Changing coolers enables the WindForce to keep the core down to 64°C. The upshot is higher frequency and higher core speed, to the tune of 1,114MHz in this title. A better cooler mounted on the same Titan Black PCB has a direct correlation to better performance in Far Cry 3.
And you get a few more sub-33ms frames as a result of higher core frequency.
More speed also means the slowest one per cent of frames aren't, well, that slow.
