Max Payne 3 Performance Tested, Benchmarked

great article,
but one thing you should really add a Core i3 2xxx to your tests, is a very popular gaming CPU and it adds another interesting CPU to look at, it combines just 2 core BUT 2 cores of higher IPC than the phenoms AND HT,
and while HT might be useless in games like this with 4 core CPUs, it probably isn't with only 2 cores...

I get a memory reading of 1792 mb using 2 x 896 mb gtx 275s in sli... strange...

How come the results for 560Ti on exactly the same settings (1920x1200, Very High, DX11) differ by 20% here vs here?

Well-written and comprehensive review, as always. You guys are the best at this. Thanks for the effort.

I'm not a big fan of third-person shooters. But I must say the graphics on this game look amazing -- and that's just from the screenshots here and the clips I've seen on Youtube so far.

That, plus this review, tells me I should at least give this game a shot. I'm thinking my PC should be able to get 40+FPS from this game, maybe even 50. There are games that are quite playable at those framerates. I'm hoping this is one them.

Thanks.

Indeed, that particular is cheap but pretty fast on games. And about HT. Its not useless. Testing several games with HT enabled and disabled, HT helps a lot for games that are optimized for HT. GTA4 for example, tested Arkham City as well and performance went down when only using 2 threads. Heck even console emulators uses HT and it gives performance benefits

Someone please tell me they still have bullet time.

why no core i3 test ?

Indeed!
core i3 is far more interesting than many of the CPUs tested, it makes no sense!

You can't bench-mark the cut-scenes, they're pre-recorded and played back with Bink.

Have you played the game? Have you checked the section of the game that we tested? I would do that before you tell us we cannot benchmark it.

I'm running 2xGTX 580 in SLI, and another DX11 card as dedicated PhysX..

I have 4gb GPU mem available, BUT the game eats up ALL of it, even when I'm at lower Quality settings.

is this a Game preoblem, og Nvidia Driver problem, or does the game eat memory like there's no tomorrow?

Why all the complains about not including the Core i3? No one with half a brain would pair a Core i3 with a GTX580/670/680/HD7950/7970 which is what's necessary to max this game out at 1080P with 4xMSAA. Above that resolution, the game is mostly GPU limited. If you have an i3, you are probably using a graphics card that's the limiting component in the first place.

wth are you talking about? they even included Athlon II X2 on this tests, so why not?
the slowest Intel CPU on this test is an i7 920!!
why no Celeron G540 or Pentium Sandy Bridge? and why no i3?

you don't need to play games at max settings,

I have 3xGTX 580 in 3-Way SLI, still can't run game at MAX settings :s (I feel that's a bit shocking actually)

And even on lower settings I have Problems with Input Lag, something that can be very frustrating when playing an FPS type game like this.

This is not comprehensive review. Where are ultimate majority of decent budget gaming cpu's - core i3-21xx, any of SandyB Pentiums like popular G860 or G630, Celeron G540, or AMD's apu like A8-3870k. You should definitely update your cpu performance chart to represent probably the bigger half of pc gamers.

You lost me at this is not a comprehensive review, I challange you to find a more complete Max Payne 3 article anywhere on the Internet. Anyway the CPU results are only a very small part of the testing, we do it simply out of interest sake so see how many cores the game will use. It is primarily about the GPU testing.

Steve ignore the haters and thank you for a great review please keep it up man.

how would this game perform on my athlon 64x2 4600 with radeon hd5450 ?

Oy.. I like Techspot reviews but some things really get on my nerves. The Athlon X4 645 provided enough oomph the 'exploit' the 680 yet it was called "gutless". Also, the 680 does not outperform the 7970 with 'ease'. It may post better frames in this particular game but although no glitches were reported here, it is well known that there are AMD driver conflicts with this game that Rockstar blames on AMD. Basically, keep up the good work guys but why don't you cut the anti-AMD BS. And Rockstar, quit ripping people off over seas.