Hitman: Absolution

The third game in our lineup is Hitman: Absolution. The latest game in Square Enix’s stealth-action series, Hitman: Absolution is a DirectX 11 based title that though a bit heavy on the CPU, can give most GPUs a run for their money. Furthermore it has a built-in benchmark, which gives it a level of standardization that fewer and fewer benchmarks possess.

Hitman: Absolution - 5760x1200 - Ultra

Hitman: Absolution - 2560x1440 - Ultra

Hitman: Absolution - 1920x1080 - Ultra + 4x MSAA

Hitman: Absolution - 1920x1080 - High + 16xAF

Hitman is another game the 7970GE does fairly well at, leading to it to ultimately nip at the heels of the GTX 780, but ultimately the GTX 780 hits its role as a gap filler, coming in between the GTX sub-$500 class cards and the $1000 class cards. The best news here for the GTX 780 is that it trails the bigger Titan by just 4%, while the lead over the GTX 680 stands at 27%, and the lead over the 7970GE stands at only 7%.

Hitman: Absolution - Min. Frame Rate - 5760x1200 - Ultra

Hitman: Absolution - Min. Frame Rate - 2560x1440 - Ultra

Hitman: Absolution - Min. Frame Rate - 1920x1080 - Ultra + 4x MSAA

Hitman: Absolution - Min. Frame Rate - 1920x1080 - High + 16xAF

Minimum framerates aren’t quite as good for the GTX 780, though they’re still more than respectable. Here the GTX 780 still looks good against Titan, trailing by 10%, but now the lead over the 7970GE stands at just 4%.

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  • EJS1980 - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - link

    If by on par you mean wayyyyyyy better, than yeah.
  • PatriciaBau42 - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - link

    upto I saw the paycheck four $8176, I be certain that my father in law had been realey bringing home money part-time at their computer.. there uncles cousin has been doing this 4 only 22 months and resently cleard the mortgage on their villa and bourt a gorgeous Citroλn 2CV. this is where I went, Exit35.comCHECK IT OUT
  • An00bis - Friday, May 31, 2013 - link

    I really appreciate that the guy who made this article showed us the texel and pixel fill rate in the synthetic benchmarks part of the review, instead of doing what me, and apparently inexperienced guy that isn't hired by one of the biggest tech reviewing websites on the internet and clearly lacks knowledge in this field, would do, which is, INCLUDE RESULTS MADE WITH 3DMARK11 IN PERFORMANCE PRESET (please don't include scores made in extreme preset, not everyone pays like 1000$ to get a license for a benchmark program, have some common sense) or in another popular benchmarking program, like Heaven, or maybe include the normal score for 3dmark vantage (even though nobody uses that anymore, even gpus from the amd 5XXX and nvidia 4XX series had support for dx11).

    I don't want to be rude, you're supposed to do your job, but when a stranger with no experience can do it better at least have the decency of actually caring about what to do, you do get paid for doing this, right?
  • yeeeeman - Sunday, June 9, 2013 - link

    Get a HD7970 and spend those 200$(650-450) on a vacation...
  • Mithan - Friday, June 14, 2013 - link

    Finally, a worthy upgrade for my GTX580.
    Unfortunately, it is priced too much.

    If it was $500, I would probably order one now and be happy for the next 3 years or so, but I will wait for Maxwell.

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