Gigabyte GTX 950 Xtreme Gaming 2GB Review

Grand Theft Auto V is an action-adventure game played from either a first-person or third-person view. Players complete missions—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story.

Outside of missions, players can freely roam the open world. Composed of the San Andreas open countryside area and the fictional city of Los Santos, the world of Grand Theft Auto V is much larger in area than earlier entries in the series.

The world may be fully explored from the beginning of the game without restrictions, although story progress unlocks more gameplay content. (Wikipedia).

We set all of GTA V's primary settings to the Very High level (ambient occlusion was High). MSAA was turned off as it deals a harsh blow to the graphics cards' frame rates. The built-in benchmark is used to gather performance data.

These are quite demanding settings for a lower cost graphics card – however we can see that the frame rates are playable. While there is much debate over what people consider ‘smooth' – over 25fps is considered by many to be acceptable. (It is the same frame rate for instance as PAL video playback). Image quality could be reduced a little to improve this further.

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