AMD Radeon HD 7970: 28nm Tahiti GPU Review
Metro 2033 Performance
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Metro 2033 is your basic post-apocalyptic first person shooter game with a few rather unconventional twists. Unlike most FPS titles, there is no health meter to measure your level of ailment, but rather you’re left to deal with life, or lack there-of more akin to the real world with blood spatter on your visor and your heart rate and respiration level as indicators. The game is loosely based on a novel by Russian Author Dmitry Glukhovsky. Metro 2003 boasts some of the best 3D visuals on the PC platform currently including a DX11 rendering mode that makes use of advanced depth of field effects and character model tessellation for increased realism. This title also supports NVIDIA PhysX technology for impressive in-game physics effects. We tested the game resolutions of 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 with adaptive anti-aliasing and in-game image quality options set to their High Quality mode, with DOF effects disabled. |
The performance trend we've seen thus far continued in the Metro 2033 benchmark. In this game, the new Radeon HD 7970 continued to be the fastest single-GPU we've tested, besting the Radeon HD 6970 by about 30%, and the GeForce GTX 580s by 25% to 30.2%, at the highest resolution.
Although the dual-GPU powered cards remained firmly in the top two positions, the Radeon HD 7970 was only a few percentage points behind the GeForce GTX 590 here.
