AMD Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 GPU Previews
Batman: Arkham City Performance
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Batman: Arkham City is a sequel to 2009’s Game of the Year winning Batman: Arkham Asylum. This recently released sequel, however, lives up to and even surpasses the original. The story takes place 18 months after the original game. Quincy Sharp, the onetime administrator of Arkham Asylum, has become mayor and convinced Gotham to create "Arkham City" by walling off the worst, most crime-ridden areas of the city and turning the area into a giant open-air prison. The game has DirectX 9 and 11 rendering paths, with support for tessellation, multi-view soft shadows, and ambient occlusion. We tested in DX11 mode with all in-game graphical options set to their maximum values, at various resolutions. |
The Radeon HD 7870 offered identical performance to the Raedon HD 6970 in the Batman: Arkham City benchmark, and significantly trailed the GeForce GTX 570. The Radeon HD 7850, however, was significantly faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti and Radeon HD 6950.
