Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 5 provides some extra test material for our look at how anti aliasing can affect performance. We are happy to report that 4x AA is something you should turn on in this title as the impact does not kill frame rates enough for you to not enjoy the extra picture quality. This game is completely playable and smooth with any of the three candidates tested here. Here, we see the GTX 460 take the middle spot in DX9 as eluded to earlier by some of our benchmarks, but takes off again in more modern DX10 scenarios.
STALKER – Call of Pripiyat
Like Crysis, this game is not only a decent, but it also represents one of the most punishing tests a GPU can go through. We refrained from hitting the EXTREME setting and just settled for Ultra High while running the gamut of tests. The emphasis on newer DX10 and DX11 APIs should bring out the best in the GTX 460…
The HD 5830 and GTX 460 seem to trade blows throughout the DX10 test scenarios. It is great to see that both cards do offer enough power to play this game smoothly. Even the HD 5770 can make a go of it with the exception of a couple scenarios. While the GTX 460 does have some impressive average frame rates, it’s worth noting that the HD 5830 has higher minimum frame rates which translates into fewer situations where things just seem to stutter and get stuck, translating into an overall smoother game play experience.
The DX11 side of this benchmark however, shows that GTX 460 is the GPU of the future and mostly comes up on top in both important minimum and average frame rates. It’s also nice to see here that all three cards provide very playable frame rates above 30 fps, even min frame rates.
Alien Vs Predator
Alien vs Predator or AvP is another benchmark that is based on DX11 where we expected the GTX 460 to do well. While it does provide us with playable frame rates above 30 fps, it doesn’t beat out the HD 5830 in this game. nVidia did provide us with tweaked config files to use, but we decided to just use the default settings and go where the benchmark took us. Although the GTX 460 doesn’t win, all three cards win for being $200 (or under) cards that can play this game.