Deus Ex: Human Revolution Performance Test

Time for an upgrade I'm assuming.

Firstly thanks for all the positive feedback guys, we really appreciate it!

I have a Radeon HD 5850 but we dumped the card some time ago along with quite a few other cards to help make the graphs easier to follow. The 5850 is a previous generation card that performs very similar to the 5870 as you pointed out so by providing the 5870 data most can easily work out how the 5850 should perform.

If you look at our article it really depends on the resolution. I am not sure what resolution your friend is gaming at but it’s certainly not 1680x1050 with a GT 240M graphics card. With maximum quality settings at 1680x1050 the GTX 550 Ti averaged just 44fps and a GT 240M is significantly slower than this graphics card.

There is no way to easily test this as the data for one platform is completely irrelevant for the next. I can tell you that the LGA1156, LGA1155 and LGA1366 platforms are not heavily dependent on memory bandwidth. If you look at the results here you will see the Core i7 2600K delivers very much the same performance with 1600MHz memory as it does with 2129MHz memory.

http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_pages/ddr3_memory_roundup,11.html

Well, he's not exactly a "gamer." He did play the first Deus Ex, so he had to get this one. The laptop he uses is not a gaming laptop, although it has somewhat decent specs for what it is (it's an Acer Aspire). I'm not sure what resolution he's running, but I do know his laptop is 15.6". With that screen size then I must assume he's playing the highest resolution that such screen size allows, which would then be--usually, that is--1366 x 768.

And, of course, frame rate is irrevocably dependent on resolution; but the main point is, that the game is not really as demanding (specially with multi-core setups, which are the norm nowadays), and still provides the eye-candy of most modern games. Not to mention it is very stable.

And NONE of this is bad at all.

A bit off topic but....

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/180?vs=164

In fact the 5850 beats the newer 460 in quite a lot of benchmarks.
Bear in mind that many of the 6xxx cards from AMD are just re-branded model numbers even though they were based on a new core(can't remember but think this was around the time of AMD switching ATI branded products to AMD) and don't offer performance increases at all. For example If I remember correctly the 5850 often beats the 6850 card. After checking it isn't far off the performance of the 6870 offering ( http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/295?vs=290 ). Also keep in mind that the performance of Nvidia and AMD products varies across games as often they are TWIMTBP (The way its meant to be played), i.e. developed closely with support from Nvidia. And sometimes they are games developed closely with support from AMD. This usually results in those games running slightly better on the cards from the company that is partnered with the game (optimized coding, insider knowledge allowing for optimized driver releases from AMD/Nvidia).

Yeah, basically realised this by the time I'd finished typing my reply

Hmm, My Asus G73 with a GTX460M runs this game at 55-60fps without issue (that's at 1920x1080 with everything on full including tesselation etc). To me, that does not really seem like a DX11 title that is going to fully utilize the power high-end hardware at all.

You do realize that the 5870 is actually faster than the 6870 a lot of times? This game included. Take a look at the graphs again. The same can be said for 5850 often enough. Also, you didn't say which i5 your friend has.The 2500k is 15% than the 750 in this game with a 580 GPU.

Dear Techspot reviewer,

Was wondering, under system Testing Notes & Methodology you mention what drivers for NV and ATI but no mention if you installed/used catalyst application profiles (CAP). 11.8 CAP 2 was released on 8/21/2011. That CAP release was aimed specifically at deus ex crossfire performance. ie

Nice overview, but before jumping to the conclusion that dual core processors w/o hyperthreading will struggle running Deus Ex on highest quality, it would have been nice to actually measure the impact on framerates. I doubt that dual core processors will "perform poorly". Worse than quad cores? Yes, of course. Poor, game breaking performance? Not likely.

The latest CAP2 11.8 were used.

But we did measure the impact on frame rate performance?

Did you read the article?

*CPU Scaling and Performance* [Page7]

http://www.techspot.com/review/436-deus-ex-human-revolution-performance-test/page7.html

Yes and head was slightly tilted to one side.