ASUS Matrix Radeon HD 7970 Platinum Review

Metro 2033 Performance

Metro 2033
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Metro 2033

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 thereof, 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 and includes 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 at 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 Metro 2033 benchmark was very competitive. The NVIDIA-powered cards were able to put up much higher peak framerates, likely due to better optimized drivers for this particular game, but the average FPS among all of the cards were quite close. The factory overclocked GeForce GTX 680 put up the best score at the lower resolution, but the ASUS ROG Matrix 7970 Platinum came roaring back and took the top spot at the higher resolution.


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