Crysis 3 Gaming Benchmark
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 3 is hard on video cards and while we would want to turn the post-processing down a good bit, the XLR8 OC2 does do a respectable job at keeping up with a 780. Both at 1440P are more slideshow than fast paced action, but then again so too is a stock 780s results. At 1080P both do close enough to each other that it would be hard to justify the additional $75 dollars and people would be better served thinking about a XRL8 780 OC – which of course costs even more than this 770 OC2!
Temperature, Noise, and Power Analysis
Video Card Temperature Results
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For all temperature testing the cards were used in an open test bed environment. Ambient temperature was kept at a constant 20°C (+/- 0.5°C) and if the ambient room temperatures rose above 21°C or dropped below 19°C at any time, all benchmarking was stopped until proper temperatures could normalized.
For Idle tests, we let the system idle at the Windows 7 desktop for 25 minutes and recorded the peak temperature.
For Load tests, we ran Unigine’s Valley benchmark for 20 minutes.
Heavy factory overclock or not this dual slot custom cooler does an admirable job at keep the card down right happy. Though we can only imagine how much cooler it would have been, if PNY have been willing to use the 780 XLR8 OC’s three fan cooler. In either case this is still a relatively cool running card.
