Also notice how badly the GTX 770 does at the Ultra settings, which appears to be due to the 2GB of VRAM I logged system usage for the GTX 770 at QHD Ultra and found that the game was trying to allocate nearly 3GB of VRAM use, which on a 2GB card means there's going to be a lot of texture thrashing. I tested just one GPU with the slower CPU configuration, the GeForce GTX 980, but this should be the best-case result for what you could get from a Core i3-4330.ĭid I mention that Assassin's Creed: Unity is a beast to run? Yeah, OUCH! 4K gaming is basically out of the question on current hardware, and even QHD is too much at the default Ultra settings. I didn't run a full suite of tests with a second 'virtual' CPU, but I did configure the i7-4770K to run similar to a Core i3-4330 (3.5GHz, 2C/4T) – the main difference being the CPU still has 8MB 元 cache where the i3-4330 only has 4MB 元.

One final note is that thanks to the unlocked nature of the i7-4770K and the Gigabyte motherboard BIOS, I'm able to at least mostly simulate lower performance Haswell CPUs. No mention is made of improvements for ACU with the driver, so it should be the same as the 14.11.2 driver we used. AMD also released a new beta driver for Far Cry 4 and Dragon Age: Inquisition ( 14.11.2B), but I have not had a chance to check performance with that yet. (I also ran a couple sanity checks with the latest 344.75 drivers and found no difference in performance.) On the AMD side, testing was done with the Catalyst 14.11.2 driver that was released to better support ACU. We're testing with NVIDIA's 344.65 drivers, which are 'Game Ready' for Assassin's Creed: Unity. GeForce GTX 870M ( MSI GS60 Ghost 3K Pro)

GeForce GTX 880M ( MSI GT70 Dominator Pro) GeForce GTX 980M ( MSI GT72 Dominator Pro) Underclocked to 3.5GHz with two cores ('i3-4330')Ģx8GB Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3-1866 CL9

Most of the hardware was purchased at retail over the past year or so, and that means I don't have access to every GPU configuration available, but I did just get a second ZOTAC GTX 970 so I can at least finally provide some SLI numbers (which I'll add to the previous Benchmarked articles in the near future). As usual, the test system is what I personally use, which is a relatively high-end Haswell configuration. With that introduction out of the way, let's just get straight to the benchmarks, and then I'll follow up with a discussion of image quality and other aspects at the end.

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