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EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Video Card Review

Let’s check the performance of the most high-end graphics processor that NVIDIA launched recently, the GeForce GTX 680.

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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The EVGA GeForce GTX 680
  • 3. The EVGA GeForce GTX 680 (Cont’d)
  • 4. Main Specifications
  • 5. How We Tested
  • 6. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
  • 7. Far Cry 2
  • 8. Aliens vs. Predator
  • 9. DiRT3
  • 10. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  • 11. Battlefield 3
  • 12. 3DMark 11 Professional
  • 13. Media Espresso 6.5
  • 14. Conclusions

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a very popular DirectX 9 game that was released in 2010. Though this game uses an old version of DirectX, the number of textures that can be represented on one screen can push most of the top-end graphics cards to their limits. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty uses its own physics engine that is bound to the CPU and thus does not benefit from PhysX.

We tested this game at 1920×1200 and 2560×1600. The “Graphics Quality” was set to the “extreme” preset, while the “Texture Quality” was set to “Ultra.” We then used FRAPS to collect the frame rate of a replay on the “Unit Testing” custom map. We used a battle between very large armies to stress the video cards.

GeForce GTX 680

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty 1920×1200 Difference
GeForce GTX 680 113.6  
Radeon HD 7970 107.8 5%
GeForce GTX 580 101.4 12%

GeForce GTX 680

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty 2560×1600 Difference
GeForce GTX 680 92.5  
Radeon HD 7970 90.5 2%
GeForce GTX 580 87.6 6%
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