NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Affordable DX11 GPU
Futuremark 3DMark Vantage
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The latest version of Futuremark's synthetic 3D gaming benchmark, 3DMark Vantage, is specifically bound to Windows Vista-based systems because it uses some advanced visual technologies that are only available with DirectX 10, which y isn't available on previous versions of Windows. 3DMark Vantage isn't simply a port of 3DMark06 to DirectX 10 though. With this latest version of the benchmark, Futuremark has incorporated two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, in addition to support for the latest PC hardware. We tested the graphics cards here with 3DMark Vantage's Extreme preset option, which uses a resolution of 1920x1200 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. |
The ATI Radeon HD 5770 outpaces the reference GeForce GTS 450 in 3DMark Vantage, but the overclocked Asus and EVGA cards manage to overtake the Radeon by a few percentage points. Keep in mind, however, that overclocked Radeon HD 5770 cards are available as well, which will negate the performance delta seen here.
