Batman: Arkham Asylum: GPUs, CPUs, And PhysX Performance
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Benchmark Results: High Detail, PhysX On Normal
Here is where things get interesting. We'll set hardware-accelerated PhysX to Normal and see what happens:
The Radeons are now limited to an average of 15 FPS across the board. The GeForces are faring much better, but only the GeForce GTS 250 and GTX 260 are really delivering smooth performance above 1280x1024. At 1920x1200, only the GeForce GTX 260 is maintaining a minimum frame rate close to 30 FPS, and at 2560x1600, there are no viable solutions here.
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Kohlhagen I just bought an ATI 5000 series card.. can i use my second PCI-E slot with the nvidia 220 to support physX? (i doubt it because AMD/Nvidia GPUs together cause driver issues)Reply -
curnel_D Don--it's almost as though the game is artificially capping performance at a set level, and is then using only the CPU resources it needs to reach that level. On the Core i7, PhysX is using fewer resources than it does on the Phenom II. This would make sense if there was an artificial performance cap, as the i7 has shown to outperform AMD's architecture.With Nvidia pushing proprietary API's like CUDA and PhysX, they're at a point where these things are some of the largest selling points of their products.Reply
With this in mind, and given Nvidia's past Anti-Consumer business practices, I think we can all expect to see a lot more of this kind of thing in the future with TWIMTBP games.
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2shea @ kohlhagen: with an ati 5000 card you probably won't need that second card if you don't play on the highest resolution.Reply -
nzprogamer im a big fan of amd and im planing to buy the xfx 4850 in the weekend but the gts250 just add another $5-10 i think i will buy the GTS-250. come on ATIReply -
noob2222 Interesting find on the CPU useage with ATI cards. It would appear that Nvidia programmed Physix not to unload programming to the cpu, instead forcing it to the GPU only. Just a speculation since it is thier option.Reply -
sohei this game runs great on any hardware but but , nvidia is just nvidiaReply
why you sell a game to all the people when is just for nvidia cards ?
that.s why i love google.... google sell free things, nvidia is the opposite -
JeanLuc NPD numbers show this game as currently being one of the least popular PC games - 92nd in fact.Reply
Nice article BTW, it's sad that the developers were paid off by Nvidia to drop support of AA on AMD cards (in game menu AA support that, there is a work round for ATI cards) as this shows just how morally bankrupt Nvidia is these days.
And just for the record this isn't a case of AMD not 'supporting developers' as Nvidia would lead you to believe. Never mind the fact it can be enabled via a hack, Richard Hubby from AMD has uploaded an email he got from the developers of Batman Arkham Asylum saying there would be lawsuit if they changed to games code to enable game menu support of AA on ATI cards.