Gainward GTX560Ti 2GB Phantom Vs Club3D HD6790 CoolStream Edition
8. Far Cry 2, StreetFighter IV, Unigine benchmark
Review Pages
2. Meet the Gainward GTX 560 Ti 2048MB Phantom
3. Meet the Club3D Radeon HD 6790 CoolStream Edition
4. Test setup
5. 3DMark 05, 3DMark 06, 3DMark Vantage and 3DMark 11
6. Crysis Warhead
7. S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call Of Pripyat Benchmark, Left4Dead
8. Far Cry 2, StreetFighter IV, Unigine benchmark
9. Dirt 2, Alien vs Predator, Lost Planet 2
10. Crysis 2
11. Overclocking
12. Final thoughts
- Far Cry 2 (DirectX 9/10)
Far Cry 2 supports both DirectX 9 and DirectX10 and its graphics engine is much lighter than the one the Crysis title is based on.
Under DX9, the Club3D HD 6790 1GB was slower than the GTX 460 and GTX 470.
On the other hand, the Gainward GTX 560 Ti 2GB was very capable of performing better than the HD 6950 and also staying close to heavyweights such as the GTX 580 OC:
Enabling the DX10 shaders, the "Ultra high" quality settings and AA also worked pretty well for the the GTX 560 Ti 2GB. This time, the card was head-to -head with the HD 6950 at 1920 x 1200:
- StreetFighter IV (DirectX 9)
Here are two more benchmarks from the Streetfighter IV and the Unigine Benchmark Engine (DX10) demonstrating the graphic performance of the Club3D HD 6950 1GB graphics card.
At the StreetFighter IV game, the HD 6790 gave less FPS than the GT 460 and the GTX 470 with 16AA enabled, but performed much better under 16AF.
The Gainward GTX 560 Ti 2GB continued its decent performance and stayed close to the GTX 470:
- Unigine benchmark
Unigine is a proprietary cross-platform middleware, developed by Unigine Corp. It is used as either a game engine or as an engine for VR systems. Unigine currently has support for OpenGL 4.0 and DirectX 11 It supports hardware tessellation and Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO), DirectCompute, and Shader Model 5.0.
The Club3D Radeon HD 6790 1GB could not catch up with the rest cards of the test , staying behind the GTX 460. The Gainward GTX 560 Ti 2GB gave a performance close to the HD 6950 1GB: