Deus Ex: Human Revolution Performance Test

Nice testing Steven.
Happy to report I haven't even bothered to check my FPS in this game on my i7 2600K, 2 x 5850 system as it's running smooth as silk with everything maxed and using MLAA. Do you guys not have a 5850 available for benchmarking? Find it strange the old 460 GTX is included in the benchmark from Nvidia camp while the 5850 equivalent AMD card isn't. I guess the 5870 is fairly close in performance level so it's not a genuinely worrying omission.

Great review I loved it.

I love these articles with all the graphs and stuff. Good work, TechSpot!

I found this game not to be demanding at all. Pretty much any decent, and even somewhat decent card can handle it just fine. My friend has a laptop which he uses for homework, and has an Nvidia GT240M, and he has played this little gem without much of a problem. I assume any self respectable desktop can also handle this game.

For such a big, complex game, I found it to be quite stable too. And its great because it is accessible to almost any gamer. Also, great job on the review, really liked the little background of Adam on the graphs.

I am playing this game on my laptop (i5-450m, Radeon Mobility 5850) and the graphics / performance ratio is awesome ! I dont see how people could complain about the graphics

Very impressed with the performance and stability of this game. Obviously they released the final product (which is saying something these days...)

Ouch. I'm running a GTX 460 1gb model OC to 900mhz combined with my i5 2500k at stock settings and I'm pulling framerates that are either equivalent or greater than my friend's 6870 with an i5. I don't think the 5870 is quite in the ballpark of the "old" 460.

LOL..."old" 460?? That card only came out in July of last year. Barely a year old.

Great review - very thorough. I especially loved your intro line: "...most of the games we have run performance tests on this year have been shameful console ports that would struggle to max out a tablet PC." That's a sad statement, but truer words have never been spoken.

I'm running the game maxed out at 1920x1200 with two 460's 1GB in SLI, 12GB RAM and an i7-960 and it's moving along without a hitch. I'm not sure what the graphics complaints are - the game looks great. From what I've experienced so far, it's all indoors stuff though. I think people are trying to compare it to games like Witcher 2 where there are a lot of outdoor scenes with a ton of fauna and that makes any game look "better." I personally have no complaints about the graphics...

You're not, and he's completely wrong. The 5870 is at least 25% more powerful than the 460. I'd say closer to 30-35% even.

lol

I'm running a 25% OC on my GTX 460, that's on top of the factory overclock. 715/1430/1800 to 920/1840/1915. An OC'd 460 can easily beat a stock 5870. However, an OC'd 5870 is a different story. I'd also hazard a guess that most people here overclock so the performance they see in the benchmark isn't what they get themselves.

I was a little worried about how well my system would handle this game ( 8800GTX 1gig with a E8400 C2D CUP) but it runs very nicely. Right afterload scenes I sometimes get a bit of FPS lag for a few seconds but nothing terrible. I haven't had any issues during intense action scenes where you REALLY don't want any lag.

As far as the game goes I'm having fun with it. I like the exp system for the augmentations where it looks like theoretically I could get everything instead of having to pick one and locking yourself out of the other like the first on did.

Does it run on Linux too?

Insert "not sure if serious" meme here.

I have 2 580's in SLI mode but in nvidia's control center when I enable the option to display the SLI bar while in Sli it doesnt appear in the game.

Am I missing something?

It appears even with 2 cards it only uses 1 card

great work! thanks

Great review and invaluable! TS is my goto site for game performance reviews.

The game was fun, but nothing to write home about honestly. Please don't get your panties in a bunch if you disagree. The bottom line for me is that it was indeed fun... nothing less, nothing more.

Any chance of memory bandwidth benchmarks? I know it doesn't matter to some folks, but It'd be interesting to see if faster memory makes any difference in modern games.

Otherwise, good analysis and I particularly enjoy the wide variety of CPU's tested.