PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Cards Tested
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Absolute Benchmark Results
Radeon HD 3850
Clearly, Microsoft Flight Simulator X requires a lot of graphics bandwidth to provide high-detail textures in the system memory. A decrease of PCI Express bandwidth has a tremendous impact on frame rates here.
The new PCMark Vantage is mostly unimpressed by the bandwidth changes. Obviously, this test is mostly GPU bound, working out of the local frame buffer.
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