Few games do dark and moody like the Batman series. We ran both Batman: Arkham City and Hitman: Absolution with graphics settings at or near the max, including tessellation.
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Batman: Arkham City
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DX11 Gaming Performance
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Batman: Arkham City
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Batman: Arkham City is the second in the trio of Batman: Arkham games.
Released in 2011, it continued the dark narrative themes created by the
2009 Batman: Arkham Asylum game and added new gameplay mechanics, as we
as a bigger environment. A newer title, Batman: Arkham Origins was
launched in late October. For this test, we turned on Nvidia PhysX and
cranked the detail to Very High.
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By now, you know what to expect from a system armed with two R9 290X cards: the Maingear EPIC RUSH blew the roof off this benchmark. At 1920 x 1080, it averaged 247 frames per second.
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Hitman: Absolution
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DX11 Gaming Performance
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Hitman: Absolution
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Our final game benchmark of the review is of Hitman, the blockbuster
series that follows an assassin as he finds himself go from hunter to
prey. The benchmark routine makes use of Hitman: Absolution's support
for Global Illumination, which provides realistic lighting, but also
hammers on NVIDIA-based graphics cards. The benchmark shows a throng of
people watching fireworks in crowded city square.
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The EPIC RUSH nearly broke 100 frames per second at 1920 x 1080, putting it well out of reach of the systems we’ve recently reviewed. There’s no doubt the RUSH is a performance beast.
