Performance in Third-Person 3D Shooters

Devil May Cry 4

It is clear that the GeForce GTX 295 is more than enough even for playing at 2560x1600, yet it is occasionally slower than the Radeon HD 4890 CrossFireX, especially at 1680x1050. Overclocking helps close this gap and put this card in the lead at 1920x1200, but there is no practical reason to overload the device in such a way. Today’s top-performance multi-GPU solutions offer more than enough speed in this game.

Prince of Persia

The first thing we can see in the Prince of Persia results is that the GeForce GTX 295 gets a tremendous performance boost through overclocking. The card is 4-11% slower than the Radeon HD 4870 X2 at the default frequencies but gets from 13% (at 1280x1024) to 35% (at 2560x1600) faster when overclocked. It should be noted, however, that the Radeon HD 4890 CrossFireX tandem delivers a comfortable frame rate at 2560x1600 even without any overclocking.