Crysis 3 is a first person shooter video game, published by Electronic Arts and released in February 2013. While older than some of the others it is one of the most visually stunning games released to date and puts a lot of demands on the GPU. This makes it perfect for more real world gaming testing. To obtain repeatable results we have used FRAPs and recorded 90 seconds of the single player ‘Post Human’ level, starting as soon as soon as prophet is handed a Hammer II pistol by Psycho. An average of four runs was taken.
The settings used in the testing below are highest settings for quality, VSync disabled and a resolution of 2560×1440 and 1920×1080. Texture Quality, Game Effects, Objects, Particles, Post Processing, Shadows, Shading, Water, and System Specs all set to Very High. Motion Blur was set to High and Lens Flare was set to On. Anti-Aliasing was set to MSAA 8X and Antistrophic Filtering was set to 16x.
Crysis three may be a tad long in the tooth but it’s still darn hard on video cards. However, it obviously is a game that prefers cards with the most memory bandwidth…and it is hard to get better than a 512-bit wide bus like the R9 390X!
MSI R9 390X Gaming 8G – Witcher 3 (RWB)
Witcher 3 is an action role-playing video game set in an open world environment, developed by Polish video game developer CD Projekt RED and released on May 2015.
Our test uses a real world timed benchmark that consists of three minutes of game play during the ‘Beast of the White Orchard’ quest. This section of the game incorporates everything from grass, to water, to hair, to numerous NPCs. An average of four runs was taken.
The settings used in the testing below are Ultra display settings, but with HairWorks off and Vsync disabled, at a resolution of 2560×1440 and 1920×1080.
Even after disabling the obvious AMD hobbling HairWorks ‘features’, Witcher 3 is still a game that prefers NVIDIA over AMD cards. This is why it was here that we saw the largest variance between what this factory overclocked R9 390X could do and what a factory overclocked GTX 980 can do. Of course if such a card like the PNY Elite OC is outside your budget the MSI Gaming 8 will post better results than what you can expect to get from a GeForce GTX 970.
