PC Games Hardware performed a comprehensive set of graphics card benchmarks on the Battlefield 3 Beta, comparing 18 AMD and Nvidia cards in single and multi-card configurations.
With Battlefield 3 the latest PC mega game that's exciting PC gamers worldwide, at least some of them will be looking to upgrade aging hardware to deliver the best performance.
PC Games Hardware noted that EA and DICE already recommend a quad-core CPU with a 1GB modern video card, the site said that "GPU power is everything" and that typical systems would be completely GPU-bound in a firefight.
Nvidia graphics cards took the top three spots by a comfortable margin in both the single and multiple card benchmarks, suggesting that the GeForce GTX 480 570, 580 and the dual-GPU 590 were the best Battlefield 3 graphics cards.
"Nvidia's drivers give their cards an edge over the competition. The Geforce GTX 570 outperforms the similar-priced Radeon HD 6970 by nine percent, even though the AMD card runs faster in our overall benchmark index."
Advertisement
Related Stories
- Diablo III breaks records on PC May 24th 2012 at 10:39AM
- NCsoft creates City of Heroes Summer Blockbuster event May 23rd 2012 at 4:31PM
- EA offers to publish crowd-funded indie games via Origin May 21st 2012 at 1:50PM
- Nvidia's GRID could be the death of consoles May 16th 2012 at 5:01AM
- Diablo III launch day server woes May 16th 2012 at 1:32AM
- AMD launches 2nd-gen A-Series APU May 15th 2012 at 11:27AM
- Nvidia launches GeForce GTX 670 May 13th 2012 at 11:21PM
- Sims 3 adds Diesel-branded Stuff pack May 10th 2012 at 4:46PM
- Google unveils Cube web game Apr 30th 2012 at 11:03PM
- Investment to curb 28nm chip shortage Apr 30th 2012 at 1:08AM
