BattleForge

Up next is BattleForge, Electronic Arts’ free to play online RTS. As far as RTSes go this game can be quite demanding, and this is without the game’s DX11 features.

Most of the time BattleForge is a balanced game, and this situation proves it nicely with the GTX 590 and Radeon HD 6990 returning the exact same score of 99.6fps at 2560. Against the GTX 570 SLI however there’s nearly a 10% gap, almost perfectly matching the difference in shading performance between the two setups.

Unusually—and had we not run this multiple times we would not have believed it—our overclocked GTX 590 underperforms the EVGA GTX 590 with its mild factory overclock. This is one of the reasons we believe we’re blindly triggering OCP, as even if Battleforge were largely memory bandwidth limited our overclock still has a nearly 5% increase in memory bandwidth. The fact that scores are going down means something is amiss.

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  • Cali3350 - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link

    Last Page you have a seeming paragraph that says "Quickly, let's also..." and then stops.
  • tipoo - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link

    Also "Unlike AMD isn’t using an exotic phase change thermal compound here" on the meet the card page
  • tipoo - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link

    Another one "This doesn’t the game in any meaningful manner, but it’s an example of how SLI/CF aren’t always the right tool for the job." on the computation page.
  • ahar - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link

    Page 2
    "...NVIDIA’s advice about SLI mirror’s AMD’s advice..."

    mirrors
  • beepboy - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link

    "Quickly, let's also"

    Nice review.
  • slickr - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link

    For $700 I'd rather buy a whole new PC.

    Whats the point of playing games at larger resolutions than 1600x1050.

    In fact I'd say that 720p resolution is probably the best to play games at, because it tends to be easier to follow since pixels kind of move faster and you have more precision and smoother gameplay experience.

    I'd be keeping my AMD 6870 that is for sure!
  • HangFire - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link

    I've once heard that the secret to happiness is learning to like the taste of cheap beer.
  • nyran125 - Sunday, June 19, 2011 - link

    did you know thats actually true lol. If you can have your coffee black, then if milk runs out you still get to enjoy life......
  • cjl - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link

    That depends entirely on your GPU. Several can push high resolutions at >60fps, and it's just as smooth. Gaming at 2560x1600 is just an awesome experience.
  • Azethoth - Sunday, March 27, 2011 - link

    Exactly, some of us have panels with native 2560x1600. I _could_ game at some miserable 1600x1050 resolution, or I could play at my native resolution. I choose 2560x1600 and ignore all review results at inferior resolutions. Damn you Crysis, damn you!

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