Sleeping Dogs is an open world action-adventure video game developed by United Front Games in conjunction with Square Enix London Studios and published by Square Enix, released on August 2012. Sleeping Dogs has a benchmark component to it that mimics game play and an average of four runs was taken.
The settings used in the testing below are the Extreme display settings and a resolution of 2560×1440 and 1920×1080. World density is set to extreme, Vsync disabled, high-res textures are enabled, and shadow resolution, shadow filtering, screen space ambient occlusion, and quality motion blur are all set to high.
At both resolutions the PNY 960 Elite OC is about 9% faster than a reference GeForce 960. This is a very nice boost and means that a factory overclocked R9 280X is less than 3% faster. Even more impressive is that at 1080P the PNY 960 Elite OC is only 6% slower than a reference GeForce 970. Of course, at higher resolutions the PNY 960 Elite OC does quickly fall back from the likes of the 970 – its nearly 25% slower – so highly overclocking the GM206 core only gets you so far.
