Assassins Creed: BF is an historical action-adventure video game, published by published by Ubisoft and released in October 2013. Like Battlefield 4 this games does not include an in-game benchmark. This makes it perfect for more real world gaming testing. To obtain repeatable results we have used FRAPs and recorded a custom run through Havana’s marketplace. 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. Environment quality was set to very high, Anti-Aliasing was set to TXAA 4X, Ambient Occlusion set to HBAO+ (high), Shadow Quality set to ‘soft shadow’, Motion Blur and Volumetric Blur both set to On. Texture Quality, Reflection Quality, and God Rays all set to High.
The huge number of things that happen during our normal run through in Assassins Creed Black Flag certainly favors the higher speeds of the PNY 960 Elite OC over that of a reference 960, but it also shows that the 128-bit bus is still too small for higher resolutions. Just by changing the resolution the PNY 960 Elite OC goes from being within grasping distance of a Asus R9 280X Top to lagging nearly 5% behind it. If only PNY had overclocked the ram and increased the memory bandwidth.
