MSI N460GTX 1GD5 Cyclone 1GB Review

1. Introduction2. MSI N460GTX 1GD5 Cyclone3. Testing Methodology4. Unigine Heaven Benchmark 2.15. 3DMark Vantage6. Alien V Predator7. Far Cry 28. Resident Evil 59. Metro 203310. Tom Clancy HAWX11. Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City12. Left4Dead 213. Crysis Warhead14. HQV Benchmark V2.015. Overclocking16. Thermal Dynamics17. Acoustics Performance18. Power Consumption19. Closing Thoughts20. View All Pages

The makers of Metro 2033 – 4A Games was founded by people who split off from GSC Game World a year before the release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, in particular Oles’ Shiskovtsov and Aleksandr Maksimchuk, the programmers who worked on the development of X-Ray engine used in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. The game utilizes multi-platform 4A Engine, running on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows. There is some contention regarding whether the engine is based on the pre-release X-Ray engine (as claimed by Sergiy Grygorovych, the founder of GSC Game World, as well as users who have seen the 4A Engine SDK screenshots, citing visual similarities, shared resources, and technical evaluation of the pre-release 4A Engine demo conducted at the request of GSC Game World), or whether the engine is an original development (as claimed by 4A Games and Oles’ Shiskovtsov in particular, who claims it would have been impractical to retrofit the X-ray engine with console support). 4A Engine features Nvidia PhysX support, enhanced AI, and a console SDK for Xbox 360. The PC version includes exclusive features such as DirectX 11 support and has been described as “a love letter to PC gamers” because of the developers’ choice to “make the PC version [especially] phenomenal”.

We tested Metro 2033 at the native 1080p resolution of our Panasonic 600hz Plasma Television. DX11, 16af with AAA. We benchmarked with in-game ‘very high’ settings as well as ‘medium’.

Very high settings prove to be too much for this hardware today although it shows how much better the HD5850 is when tasked at these settings with this particular engine.

Moving to NORMAL settings we see a massive increase in frame rates with the HD5850, GTX 465 and MSI 460GTX Cyclone all delivering a very similar performance. This engine is incredibly demanding and many people will probably need to drop this to 1680×1050 to get perfectly smooth rates throughout.

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