In Game Benchmarks

For my next bit of testing I ran the two 370’s through our in game benchmark suite. This consists of 9 different modern games at their highest settings at both 1080p and 1440p (with the exception of one game). To make the results easier to take in I like to break down the results into three different FPS categories. Anything under 30 FPS is considered unplayable, anything over 60 FPS is ideal, and anything in between is playable but not perfect. Beyond that I also split up the results between the 1080p testing and 1440p. Just to recap how a single 370 performs I saw the following in my individual card testing.

1080p

Under 30 - 2

Over 30 - 5

Over 60 - 1

1440p

Under 30 - 5

Over 30 - 4

Over 60 - 0

As you can see below jumping up to Crossfire did give a nice performance boost, moving most of the games that performed okay up into the great performance category at 1080p. At 1440p most of the games weren’t playable at all but now almost all of them are with a few being up in that 60+ FPS category as well. There were a few issues though, specifically a couple games didn’t have Crossfire support, that is why even with Crossfire a few games were considered unplayable at our test settings. Hopefully AMD continues to work on the crossfire support as it would obviously increase the playability of a few games.

So where did the 370’s fail? Well a big one was in GRID Autosport where the results were considerably lower than even the cards individually. Thief was the same as well with both 1080p and 1440p results falling under 30 FPS. Beyond those two games the cards in Crossfire did perform about where you would expect given the results in 3DMark. Most of the time they fall in between the GTX 780 and the GTX 780Ti. In Hitman:Absolution they performed even better, right up under the GTX 980 and above the R9 390’s.