How well will this game run on my Graphics Card.

[desiJATT]

Graphics Cards Benchmarks

By - Anmol Sharma

I have seen many people on the forum who are in a dilemma on how well will their newly bought or yet to be purchased Graphics Card, perform in their favourite games. Most of the benchmarks are usually just a Google search away, but i wanted to compile them at one single place, with only those cards, which are being recommended here (more to be added soon).

People who are soon going to buy a new graphics card can be redirected here to check how well their favourite game perform on their card at different settings. This can pretty much give them an idea on what to buy and what not to.

I have not included the Low-End budget cards because they are not meant for gaming in any way and are only for HTPC rigs.

Note
Game performance usually varies with varying Processor, Hard Disk performance, and other factors. What i have done here, is to give an approximate idea on how will a game run on a GPU. It is clear that when they were tested, there was no bottleneck whatsoever and the card was able to perform to it's fullest. So, even if you have different configurations, you results won't vary much as long as you don't bottleneck the card.
/Note

The Game Performance includes benchmarks from games like Battlefield 3, Crysis 2 and Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim. These are mostly GPU Intensive games and performance will NOT vary much with varying configurations.

Note
For those of you wondering, Going Hunting is a Single Player mission in Battlefield 3 and Caspian Border is a Multiplayer Map
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Contributors
topgear || Cilus || Sam || Pramudit

Here are the quick links to all the cards which are included in the list, for which the benchmarks are available -

NVIDIA

GTS 450 1GB GDDR5 6.5K || GTX 560 1GB GDDR5 11K || GTX 560Ti 1GB GDDR5 15k || GTX 680 4GB GDDR5 30-35k

AMD/ATI

HD 7750 1GB GDDR5 6.2K || HD 6790 1GB GDDR5 <8K || HD 6770 1GB GDDR5 7.5K || HD 7770 1GB GDDR5 8.2K ||

HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 9K || HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 11k || HD 6950 1GB GDDR5 14K || HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 15.5k ||

HD 7850 2GB GDDR5 15.5K || HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 21K || HD 7870 2GB GDDR5 22K || HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 27k ||

HD 7970 3GB GDDR5 30-35k

Integrated Graphics Processors

Only a fraction of the available hardware has been included here, will be updating with more benchmarks for other CPUs, APUs and IGPs later on. In the meantime, only 5 are included with Intel HD 2000 and AMD 6550D IGP.

Intel HD Graphics

Intel HD 2000 Graphics || Intel HD 3000 Graphics

Note
Only the following CPUs from Intel use HD 3000 Graphics -

Core i7 2700k
Core i7 2600k
Core i5 2500k
Core i5 2405S
Core i3 2125
Core i3 2105

So if your CPU is not in this list, it supports Intel HD 2000 Graphics (provided it's from second generation).
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AMD APU

HD 6550D || HD 6530D || HD 6410D

Note
AMD APUs supporting different graphics.


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Sources
Tom's Hardware
Techspot
SWEClockers
BitTech
AnandTech
3DMARK
Guru3D
Video Card Benchmark .net
YouTube
Last but certainly, not the least
Google

[desiJATT]

NVIDIA

GTS 450 1GB GDDR5 6.5-6.7k

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3

No Crysis 2 benchmarks were found. I found Crysis 1 benchmarks instead.

Crysis


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

GTX 560 1GB GDDR5 10.2-11k

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

GTX 560Ti 1GB GDDR5 13.3-15.3k

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

GTX 680 2GB GDDR5 35k

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3 Multiplayer


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

[desiJATT]

AMD/ATI

HD 6770 1GB GDDR5 6.3-6.5K

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

HD 6790 1GB GDDR5 8-8.5K

Spoiler:

Couldn't find Battlefield 3 Benchmarks for this card, but people have reported it to play on all High at 1920x1080 at a frame rate of about 30-35 fps.

HD 7750 1GB GDDR5 6.5-7.5K

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim*

HD 7770 1GB GDDR5 8.5-10k

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 8.5-9.5K

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 11k

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

HD 6950 1GB GDDR5 14-15K

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 16.5k

Spoiler:

(More or less same the performance as 1GB variant, 2GB usable only when using multi monitor setup and high AA and AF values)

Battlefield 3

Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

HD 7850 2GB GDDR5 15.5K

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3 Multiplayer


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 20.5K

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

HD 7870 2GB GDDR5 22K

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3 Multiplayer


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 27.5-29k

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3 Multiplayer


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

HD 7970 3GB GDDR5 33.5-35.5k

Spoiler:

Battlefield 3 Multiplayer


Crysis 2


Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim

[desiJATT]

Intel HD Graphics

Intel HD Graphics || Intel HD 2000 Graphics || Intel HD 3000 Graphics

Note
The following CPUs from Intel use HD Graphics -

1. Intel® HD Graphics :
Celeron G5x0
Celeron G530T
Pentium G6xx
Pentium G6x0T
Pentium G8x0

2. Intel® HD Graphics 2000 :
Core i3-2102
Core i3-21x0
Core i3-21x0T
Core i5-2x00
Core i5-2x00S
Core i5-25x0T
Core i7-2600
Core i7-2600S

3. Intel® HD Graphics 3000 :
Core i3-21x5
Core i5-2405S
Core i5-2500K
Core i7-2x00K
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Open Spoiler for benchmark graphs.

Spoiler:

[desiJATT]

AMD APU

HD 6550D || HD 6530D || HD 6410D

Note
AMD APUs supporting different graphics.


/Note

Open Spoiler for benchmark graphs.

Spoiler:

The above benchmarks only include HD 6550D and HD 6530D marks. The only score i could find about HD 6410D was the 3DMARK Scores.

Open Spoiler for benchmark scores.

Spoiler:

Processor
AMD A4-3400
Graphics Card
AMD Radeon HD 6410D
Memory512 MB
Core clock700 MHz
Memory clock667 MHz

Detailed scores

Settings
Default settings used Yes
EditionBasic

[desiJATT]

Changelog

16-4-12 Collected lists of various crads under different budgets
17-4-12 Created thread
17-4-12 Added Battlefield 3 benchmarks for all cards.
18-4-12 Added basic benchmarks for AMD APUs and Intel IGPs.
Minor formatting changes.
19-4-12 Added benchmarks for Crysis 2 and Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim for all cards.
Minor formatting changes.
Added benchmarks for HD6410D.
20-4-12 Updated the APU and IGP benchmarks with more relative ones, still missed a few.
Revised the APU and IGP benchmarks with topgear's suggestion and added Intel HD Graphics.
Reformatted some posts.

Upcoming Updates

Will add pricing details and links to the online shops for purchasing the cards.
Will add more game benchmarks.
Will also try to add specifications of each card like TDP, Memory Bandwidth, Texel Rates, Pixel Rates etc.

[desiJATT]

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[pramudit]

nice thread... add some more games and importantly low end gpus like amd 6450, igp...

[amjath]

7850 runs ~20 fps than 6950 in 1920*1080 and other settings??? Can somebody explain Why


BTW Nice thread so helpful

[desiJATT]

nice thread... add some more games and importantly low end gpus like amd 6450, igp...

I have ommited low end GPUs for now, but APUs are definitely on the list. Will add more game benchmarks probably tonight.

7850 runs ~20 fps than 6950 in 1920*1080 and other settings??? Can somebody explain Why


BTW Nice thread so helpful

That's because HD6850 2GB benchmarks are at High quality preset at different resolutions and HD 7850 benchmarks are at MP at both Ultra and High quality.

[dexterz]

nice thread could you add BF3 multiplayer benchmark for 560Ti 1gb or 2gb version? or is there not much of a difference?

[pramudit]

desijatt also add the whole test config(if possible)...

[desiJATT]

nice thread could you add BF3 multiplayer benchmark for 560Ti 1gb or 2gb version? or is there not much of a difference?

The problem is, multiplayer is very variable. It changes a lot. Nothing can be said about the perfect FPS you will get in that game. MP differes by Map, place in a map, like if you are in a dark room you will get high FPS, whereas if there's an explosion, FPS will drop. So, even if there are multiplayer benchmarks for these cards, I don't think they are really consistent. Still, i will try to find MP benchmarks for all cards.

[dexterz]

The problem is, multiplayer is very variable. It changes a lot. Nothing can be said about the perfect FPS you will get in that game. MP differes by Map, place in a map, like if you are in a dark room you will get high FPS, whereas if there's an explosion, FPS will drop. So, even if there are multiplayer benchmarks for these cards, I don't think they are really consistent. Still, i will try to find MP benchmarks for all cards.

no worries then. i just wanted to know if there was big difference between hd7850(stock since no oc card is out) and 560ti 2gb OC benchmarks since im anxious to get a new gpu and my patience is running out

[desiJATT]

desijatt also add the whole test config(if possible)...

Posting test config is not possible Pramudit, as i picked up the benchmarks from around 16 different places. But I have clarifed about this regard in the first post -

Game performance usually varies with varying Processor, Hard Disk performance, and other factors. What i have done here, is to give an approximate idea on how will a game run on a GPU. It is clear that when they were tested, there was no bottleneck whatsoever and the card was able to perform to it's fullest. So, even if you have different configurations, you results won't vary much as long as you don't bottleneck the card.

[Cilus]

desiJATT, really nice thread but I think you can add some more games. Chose couple of CPU bound games (like GTA 4) and some GPU heavy games (Like Metro 2033, AVP, Crysis 2) which will give us a clear idea about different GPUs' performance in different cases.
Rep+ from my side.

[desiJATT]

desiJATT, really nice thread but I think you can add some more games. Chose couple of CPU bound games (like GTA 4) and some GPU heavy games (Like Metro 2033, AVP, Crysis 2) which will give us a clear idea about different GPUs' performance in different cases.
Rep+ from my side.

Thanks a lot Cilus. I am working on the benchmarks of other games like Crysis 2 and Metro 2033, will add them soon. About GTA4, i am still unsure about this as the test bench for these cards are highly varying (as different sites use different test bench). Will see to it.

Thank you for Rep

[topgear]

Intel HD Graphics ain't limited to these cpus only

Core i3 2100T 2.5GHz || Core i3 2120 3.3 GHz || Core i5 2500 3.3 GHz

which may create confusion and misconception - so you better mention the Intel HD Graphics series names like this :

Second Generation ( Released ) :
HD Graphics 2000
HD Graphics 3000

now many more celeron, pentium, core i3/i5/i7 SB cpus ( not only just 3 cpus you mentioned ) have second generation of Intel HD gfx and HD2000 and HD3000 have major performance difference between them.

Coming to the AMD APUs section there's some more ( apart from HD6550D ) more IGP series exists like HD6530D ( A6 3600 and 3500 series APUs ), HD6410D (A43400 and 3300 series APUs ) which varies a lot in performance front.

[desiJATT]

^^ See that was the main reason i was skeptical on including IGPs and APUs. Will try to add these too, but not sure.

EDIT - I have decided to remove the IGP section for now. Will research on that and will update when i will be ready.

If you have any comments, let me know

EDIT 2 - All Benchmarks added. Topgear's suggestion taken, and re revised the APU and IGP benchmarks. It should be more clear and informative now.

Any more changes you wanna see, just post here

[Anorion]

good work ty for the ready reference

[desiJATT]

Thank you . This was the main aim of this thread, to provide ready reference to different graphics cards performances in different games. Will keep this thread up-to-date

Also, i would like to request you guys, to redirect those people here asking for game benches and performance on their graphics card. This will help achieve the proper aim of this thread. Thank you all.

Updated all the Posts with Benchmarks from Crysis 2 and Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim. Also Re-re-revised the APU and IGP benchmarks.

More updates coming soon.

[sam]

try including Hybrid Xfire score. only for AMD 6 series.

And also try to include more direct bench pics for Anandtech or HardOCP. this allows for direct comparison. One more thing, give pics under spoilers. Mobile users won't have to scroll infinitely.

Nice job till now. And check the Intel IGP thing. you have mentioned it twice.

[desiJATT]

1. try including Hybrid Xfire score. only for AMD 6 series.

2. And also try to include more direct bench pics for Anandtech or HardOCP. this allows for direct comparison.

3. One more thing, give pics under spoilers. Mobile users won't have to scroll infinitely.

4. Nice job till now. And check the Intel IGP thing. you have mentioned it twice.

1. Very daunting task. I considered it earlier, but dropped the idea. Not only A6, but an A4 and A8 can also be used with a Hybrid Corssfire setup. The problem is, these setups are not really practical, and i have seen no one on TDF looking up for these. (The main task of this thread was to provide benches to those cards which are recommended here, not for every thing. That would be like packing the whole internet in a thread )

Also, there are many possible combinations for this mode, and not all of them could be tested. So i am afraid, that might not be possible. Still if the need arises, I may look into it.

2. Direct comparison will make the thread very confusing and difficult for me to manage. Not all charts have same cards to compare with. Comparison can be done just by looking up for benchmarks of different cards, no big deal.

3. That, I'll update. Thanks for suggesting, i totally forgot about our mobile users friends

4. Thank you, and fixed that part.

Anything else you would like me to look into? Do tell me

[topgear]

^^ if possible add my name into the Contributors list

now here' some more info on and benchmark on Intel HD gfx and AMD apu :

actually there's 3 Intel HD graphics series exists for SB cpus :

1. Intel® HD Graphics :
Celeron G5x0
Celeron G530T
Pentium G6xx
Pentium G6x0T
Pentium G8x0
2. Intel® HD Graphics 2000 :
Core i3-2102
Core i3-21x0
Core i3-21x0T
Core i5-2x00
Core i5-2x00S
Core i5-25x0T
Core i7-2600
Core i7-2600S
3. Intel® HD Graphics 3000 :
Core i3-21x5
Core i5-2405S
Core i5-2500K
Core i7-2x00K

now all three HD gfx has same clock speed and spec and performance wise Intel HD Graphics and Intel HD Graphics 2000 is almost same ( both has 6 Execution units ) expect Intel HD Graphics don't has Quick Sync, InTru 3D , Intel Insider and Clear Video HD features. In all three Intel HD Graphics 3000 is the best.

Here's the performance difference :

Intel Pentium G620 [Intel® HD Graphics]
Intel Core i3-2120 Processor [Intel® HD Graphics 2000]
Intel Core i3-2105 Processor [Intel® HD Graphics 3000]
Intel Core i7-2600K Processor [Intel® HD Graphics 3000]
AMD A6 3650 [HD6530D]
AMD A8 3850 [HD6550D]

[sam]

1. Very daunting task. I considered it earlier, but dropped the idea. Not only A6, but an A4 and A8 can also be used with a Hybrid Corssfire setup. The problem is, these setups are not really practical, and i have seen no one on TDF looking up for these. (The main task of this thread was to provide benches to those cards which are recommended here, not for every thing. That would be like packing the whole internet in a thread )

yes true. actually hybrid graphics makes sense only got laptops with AMD APU.

^^ if possible add my name into the Contributors list

instead he added my name when i didn't contribute anything

[desiJATT]

Spoiler:

^^ if possible add my name into the Contributors list

now here' some more info on and benchmark on Intel HD gfx and AMD apu :

actually there's 3 Intel HD graphics series exists for SB cpus :

1. Intel® HD Graphics :
Celeron G5x0
Celeron G530T
Pentium G6xx
Pentium G6x0T
Pentium G8x0
2. Intel® HD Graphics 2000 :
Core i3-2102
Core i3-21x0
Core i3-21x0T
Core i5-2x00
Core i5-2x00S
Core i5-25x0T
Core i7-2600
Core i7-2600S
3. Intel® HD Graphics 3000 :
Core i3-21x5
Core i5-2405S
Core i5-2500K
Core i7-2x00K

now all three HD gfx has same clock speed and spec and performance wise Intel HD Graphics and Intel HD Graphics 2000 is almost same ( both has 6 Execution units ) expect Intel HD Graphics don't has Quick Sync, InTru 3D , Intel Insider and Clear Video HD features. In all three Intel HD Graphics 3000 is the best.

Here's the performance difference :

Intel Pentium G620 [Intel® HD Graphics]
Intel Core i3-2120 Processor [Intel® HD Graphics 2000]
Intel Core i3-2105 Processor [Intel® HD Graphics 3000]
Intel Core i7-2600K Processor [Intel® HD Graphics 3000]
AMD A6 3650 [HD6530D]
AMD A8 3850 [HD6550D]

Thank you topgear for your investing in your time and providing me with this exhaustive list of benchmarks for Intel Graphics. I have updated my Intel HD Graphics post with your suggestion and have added your name to the contributors list (Sorry for doing this late, frankly I forgot about it, but I earlier thought of doing that)

Spoiler:

yes true. actually hybrid graphics makes sense only got laptops with AMD APU.



instead he added my name when i didn't contribute anything

True.
Sam helped me manage the thread, by editing and adding posts and stuff. Cilus gave me the full list of Graphics Cards we recommend here. Pramudit gave me suggestions about how can I improve. And then it's you topgear, who provided with these benches, hence the contributors list is justified.

[saswat23]

1. Surprised to see that GTX-550Ti is not in the list. Its the intermediate card between GTS-450 and GTX-560. Add it. Also add GTX-460 if possible.

2. Also you have added HD 6850 inside the spoiler of HD 7770, get it rectified.

3. Give some extra space betwwen the spoiler of one and the headline of the next, that will make it look better.

4. HD 6770 sells for ~7k now, and add HD 6790 after HD 6770 (you have added befor it).

5. Also add a spoiler for that one line info of (HD 6790) too, that will make the page look uniform.

[desiJATT]

1. Surprised to see that GTX-550Ti is not in the list. Its the intermediate card between GTS-450 and GTX-560. Add it. Also add GTX-460 if possible.

2. Also you have added HD 6850 inside the spoiler of HD 7770, get it rectified.

3. Give some extra space betwwen the spoiler of one and the headline of the next, that will make it look better.

4. HD 6770 sells for ~7k now, and add HD 6790 after HD 6770 (you have added befor it).

5. Also add a spoiler for that one line info of (HD 6790) too, that will make the page look uniform.

1. GTX 550Ti and GTX 460 are old generation Fermi cards and are known power hogs. They are not recommended here. Instead, their AMD counterparts, HD7770 and HD6850 respectively are much better choices, which i have already included.

2. Done, thanks for pointing out

3. Done.

4. The prices are approximate in nature, and are not intended to be taken as a reference for now. Will be updating the thread with latest prices and links to them tonight.

5. Done, it should look better now.

[thetechfreak]

Nice. The CENTER tag on all the tables should make page even better imo