Gaming Performance

TweakTown strives to provide our readers with a reasonable expectation of what they can expect in terms of real-world performance in our gaming tests. Instead of testing all systems and titles at, say, 1280x768 with 4xAA and comparing framerates, we determine a particular system's maximum playable settings and report those settings along with the resultant framerates.

Even though this makes direct comparison between systems a bit more difficult, we feel it best reflects how the typical gamer uses a system. Most players aren't interested in getting framerates in the 100s at 1280x768 if the title is still playable at 1680x1050.

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Using Arkham Asylum's built-in benchmarking tool (included in Patch 1.1), we achieved maximum playable settings at 1920x1080 with 16xAA and "Very High" performance settings.

Frame rates were as follows. 106 max, 35 min, with an average of 68.

Far Cry 2

The F131 destroyed Far Cry 2, even with all the settings maxed out at 1920x1080, 8xAA, and Very High detail level.

It averaged 137.49 fps, with a high of 269 and a low of 86.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Another title that hardly caused the F131 to break a sweat.

At 1920x1080, we pulled in an average of 89 fps, with a maximum of 110 and a minimum of 51.

BioShock

No surprise here. The F131 cranked out an average of 329.5(!), with a max of 515 and min of 223 at 1920x1080 and Very High detail level.

For an in-depth review of the capabilities of the NVIDIA GTX 470, see here.