Bioshock Infinite
“BioShock Infinite is a first-person shooter like you’ve never seen. Just ask the judges from E3 2011, where the Irrational Games title won over 85 editorial awards, including the Game Critics Awards’ Best of Show. Set in 1912, players assume the role of former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt, sent to the flying city of Columbia on a rescue mission. His target? Elizabeth, imprisoned since childhood. During their daring escape, Booker and Elizabeth form a powerful bond — one that lets Booker augment his own abilities with her world-altering control over the environment. Together, they fight from high-speed Sky-Lines, in the streets and houses of Columbia, on giant zeppelins, and in the clouds, all while learning to harness an expanding arsenal of weapons and abilities, and immersing players in a story that is not only steeped in profound thrills and surprises, but also invests its characters with what Game Informer called “An amazing experience from beginning to end.” From Bioshockinfinite.com
Despite being older technology, the card performs well. Although it’s just not hitting the 60fps sweet spot at 1440p.
Something’s not right here… how can a chip which is essentially the same as the one in the 285 (although clocked a bit higher) deliver over twice the average framerate at 1080p and 1440p in Metro Last Light? I thought the VRAM was the problem while reading the review of the sapphire 380, but here the VRAM is 2GB – same as the 285… the only difference is about a 100MHz higher core clock. How can that result in such a large difference in performance?
Guess these cards are more of a refresh than a rebadge then, I was thinking this when I saw my first 390x review yesterday, which seems to gives pretty impressive results similar to a 980, from what is apparently an old 290x core.
Maybe When everyone was reporting about this rebadge being scandalous etc they were wrong? I guess that’s also why AMD got fed up and pulled loads of reviewer’s samples? Who knows, but so far all these “rebrands” have been pretty surprising and I was expecting them to suck – colour me surprised
my thought exactly !
I was blocked from kitguru for posting that video on vimeo haha
my video was removed too 😛
Whatever useless website.
😛
In this case, it’s more likely that there was something wrong with the tests on that game, because in other games the difference is small, and in other reviews of the card the difference between it and 285 on Metro Last Light is a couple of frames per second, nothing nearly as bad as this. I guess it could be a driver problem or something…
It’s really weird seeing this good results. I have much lower both averages and minimums on my 280X in BF4. Minimum can go even to 35ish, but only on death cam, and average is about 55-60 on big maps.
If you remember, this is all Hawaii architecture, since HD7970 everything is almost 100% the same chip. All R7 and R9 200 and 300 series, and now this fps results, like what the hell? 🙂
But, it’s good to see that it’s not just a name changer, cause, that would be silly of AMD.
Even Fiji is not a new architecture, it’s Hawaii with “tweaks” -> GCN 3.0 to work with HBM.