NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Review: Ultra Expensive, Ultra Rare, Ultra Fast
by Ryan Smith on May 3, 2012 9:00 AM ESTThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Bethesda's epic sword & magic game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is our RPG of choice for benchmarking. It's altogether a good CPU benchmark thanks to its complex scripting and AI, but it also can end up pushing a large number of fairly complex models and effects at once, especially with the addition of the high resolution texture pack.
Unfortunately for AMD, Crossfire isn’t just broken with Batman, as it’s also broken here. If they could scale they’d be CPU limited like the GTX 600 series, but instead we’re getting negative performance. Furthermore at 2560 that’s a very choppy 58.8fps for the 7970CF.
In any case, even though we’re CPU limited it’s interesting to see that the GTX 690 still can’t quite catch the GTX 680 SLI. At 2560 it trails by 2%, which is on the edge of experimental variability.
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CeriseCogburn - Sunday, May 6, 2012 - link
It's a very pertinent topic because despite the protestations the vast majority of readers are likely to have a 1080p monitor, and apparently they all have amnesia as well since this came up in a very, very recent article - one of the last few on the video cards - where it was even pointed out by Anand himself that one should extrapolate the fps data with the 11% pixel difference, something every last one of you either never read or completely forgot or conveniently omitted.Unfortunately Anand isn't correct, period. He should know it, but of course has to have an answer for the complainers - so he gave one.
What should be clear, even by just looking at the 1920X benches here is that below that resolutin and above it don't always jibe with it - and personally I've noticed nVidia has issues with 1600X1200.
So, all the hundreds of readers with 1080p monitors can thank me deep down in their hearts, as they now know Nvidia is supreme at that resolution, by 17%+ on average, more so than at 1200p, and thus "saving money" on an amd card using this sites 1920 1200p stats is for many, incorrect.
Makaveli - Thursday, May 3, 2012 - link
no one is mad or raging I think most are just amused at your stupidity! and sad attempt at trolling.Trololol
CeriseCogburn - Sunday, May 6, 2012 - link
Yet my point is absolutely prescient and helpful to anyone whom isn't a raging fanboy fool.Doesn't appear you've risen above that category.
InsaneScientist - Sunday, May 6, 2012 - link
And yet they specifically called out the fact that the patch broke performance on nVidia cards, went out of their way to state what performance was like before the patch (which is clearly better than any of the other cards), and finally stated that they're pretty sure that the game is at fault, not nVidia or their drivers...Yeah, they really must have it out for nVidia... *sigh*
CeriseCogburn - Sunday, May 6, 2012 - link
Except in the 680 tests all you fools ignored S2TW, which I had to repeatedly point out was the hardest game in the bunch, not Crysis or M2033 - over and over again I had to tell all the fools blabbering, and now suddenly the game is "broken". ROFL - it's beyond amazing.CeriseCogburn - Sunday, May 6, 2012 - link
Oh look it's not broken, TPU can handle it with nearly 100% single card SLI scaling with the 690http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_...
Gee I guess it was "harder" here.
blackened23 - Thursday, May 3, 2012 - link
you appear to be using an old version of Batman without the latest patch.blackened23 - Thursday, May 3, 2012 - link
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/340746/batman...You are using an outdated version, the newest version released in March enhances both SLI and CF performance.
Ryan Smith - Thursday, May 3, 2012 - link
We're on the latest version. I triple checked.blackened23 - Thursday, May 3, 2012 - link
Are you using the Steam version? Your results differ from that of HardOCP, hardwareheaven, and hardwarecanucks. They get scaling you don't. Your version should be dated March 2012, thats when the patch was released.