NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560: The Top To Bottom Factory Overclock
by Ryan Smith on May 17, 2011 9:00 AM ESTDIRT 2
Codemasters’ 2009 off-road racing game continues its reign as the token racer in our benchmark suite. As the first DX11 racer, DiRT 2 makes pretty thorough use of the DX11’s tessellation abilities, not to mention still being among the best looking racers we have ever seen.
With DIRT 2 we once again are seeing just how bipolar NVIDIA and AMD’s relative performance is. The NVIDIA cards once more swing into the lead, with the Mid overtaking everything except the 6970. Only our ASUS GTX 560 can overtake AMD’s single-GPU leader, which puts it in the company of the GTX 560 Ti.
The linup compared to NVIDIA’s other cards is otherwise the same: the GTX 560 Mid has 20% on the GTX 460 1GB, and the GTX 560 Ti has 8% on the GTX 560 Mid.
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TheJian - Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - link
See my other posts. Nvidia finally got multithreaded rendering finished in their drivers (which should affect many games now, it's not GAME specific). Expect AMD to get theirs done soon. This isn't Civ5 or Anandtech favoring NV, it's just the beat AMD to the punch in getting drivers finished. If AMD takes another year to get their drivers done, I'm glad they report this. I hope AMD gets them done soon, or the next set of cards that get benched might show quite a few games with AMD bunched at the bottom of the list.NOTE: this is a DRIVER issue, not game issue. Both sides have been working on getting this in their drivers for a while. It's about time :) The game had this in it all the time (many other too, get ready for speedups if you own NV and running 2.75 drivers (whatever is latest from NV). Unfortunately my 5850 has to wait for AMD. :(
JarredWalton - Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - link
You know what the best part is about Civ5? AMD is the one that gave out copies of the game to reviewers. Yup -- that and F1 2010.L. - Thursday, May 19, 2011 - link
Errr/ metacritic lol ?We're talking benchmarking here, not playing the game.
AMD being poor is their problem, we shouldn't care ;)
Besides, the way people rate on metacritic or any critic source for anything is at most a relative indicator of how people who take the time to vote feel about stuff... doesn't help that much does it ?
Crysis 2 is NOT in the same series as Crysis 1. If you don't know why, read some more about it.
L. - Thursday, May 19, 2011 - link
Two words for you mate, Bench and MarkThe purpose of benchmarking is to get a relative idea of the performance of a component, not to test every little game out there, because of that reviewers attempt to have a most relevant panel of games/ benchmarks to test the gfx cards.
Crysis 2 is not (yet) a relevant benchmark. Maybe when they're done writing the engine for PC's it will be, but now it's just a worthless console port.
IF you think they're lazy, just post a list of the games you would use to benchmark and ask people how useful they find those.
Spoelie - Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - link
Metro 2033 is a game that requires the force scaling flag I believe. It ignores the scaling settings in AMD's drivers on windows 7 at least..Coloring is wrong on the Civ5 graph (last one)
GeorgeH - Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - link
Taken out of the noise of the other comment stream:"RE: Time to change the tests by Ryan Smith on Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The test suite is due for a refresh, and will either be updated at the end of this month or next month once we build our new SNB testbed."
Weren't you waiting for SNB-E? Isn't that a Q4 release? Or by "SNB" do you mean "Bulldozer" and know something that we don't?
You've got me all curious and maybe excited and more curious and now I-don't-know-what-to-think.