- S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call Of Pripyat Benchmark

The ' S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call Of Pripyat Benchmark' provides detailed information about a system's performance on various graphical modes. This benchmark is based on one of the in-game locations – Pripyat . The testing process includes four stages, those utilizing various weather and time of the day settings (day, night, rain, bright sun). In order to test the system thoroughly the benchmark is provided with a number of presets and options including different versions of DirectX (9.0 10.0, 11), screen resolutions, anti-aliasing etc.This makes it another one of the highly demanding games in our benchmark suite.

For our tests we set the visual details to the highest level and tested the Club3D HD 6790 1GB graphics card under DX10 and DX11 at the resolution of 1920x1200:

- DX9

- DX10

- DX11

In this game, the performance of the Club3D HD 6790 could be comparable to the the GTX 460 768MB, with the latter to be slightly less powerful. The card also clears the 5770 by almost 10%.

At the same game, the Gainward GTX 560Ti 2Gb came up short, staying behind AMD's 6950 1GB.  On the other hand the GTX 560 has an advantage over the GTX 460 1GB.

- Left4Dead (DirectX 9)

Introduced in 2004, Valve’s Source engine continues to live on in new Valve games. Although this game is not very GPU limited to a significant degree we are using it in our testbed.

We used a custom time demo and measured the performance of the Club3D HD 6790 and Gainward GTX560 Ti 2GB graphics cards for the resolutions of 1280x1024, 1650x1080 and 1920x1200, with 16xAF enabled and all visual settings maxed out.

The specific game is not as demanding as other so at lower resolutions, we see all the cards that appear in the graph above to perform well. As we increase the resolution and the quality settings, the Gainward GTX 560 Ti 2Gb seems to be powerful enough to keep it up with the high performance, leaving behind Nvidia's GTX 460, 470 and AMD's HD 6950.

The Club3D HD 6790 1GB also appeared to be able to cope with the specific game, at least until 1920 x 1200 x 16AF. What it gave was a performance close to a GTX 470 and GTX 460 1GB OC.