Real World In-Game Benchmarks
In the Real Gaming Benchmarks section we will show a number of timed real world game play results using FRAPS and four popular modern PC games. This will illustrate how much performance the PNY GeForce GTX 780 XLR8 OC has to offer and do so in a way which cannot be unduly skewed by driver ‘optimizations’ which have been included for the sole purpose of improving benchmark results. While not as common as it once was such optimizing is still not unheard of by either AMD or NVIDIA. Once again Unigine’s Valley benchmark was run for 15 minutes to ‘warm up’ the video card prior to testing.
Battlefield 4 Gaming Benchmark
Battlefield 4 is first person shooter video game, published by EA Digital Illusions CE and released in October 2013. Unlike most, this games does not include an in-game benchmark. This makes it perfect for more real world gaming tests. To obtain repeatable results we have used FRAPs and recorded the first 90 seconds of the single player Tashgar level. An average of four runs was taken.
The settings used in the testing below are Ultra pre-set for quality, with VSync disabled and a resolution of 12560×1440 and 1920×1080.
At 1080P the PNY GeForce GTX 780 XLR8 OC came as close to tying the average performance of a 780Ti as we saw. At this level of performance the differences really are academic and we doubt anyone would notice a half frame per second reduction in performance. At 1440P the results were not quite as favourable, but a mere couple frames per second were all that separated the XLR8 OC from a reference 780Ti. Any way you look at it, that really is an impressive showing from this much more budget friendly card.
