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Benchmark Results: World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Header Cell - Column 0 | 1680x1050No AA/16x AF | 1680x10508x AA/ 16x AF | 1920x1080No AA/16x AF | 1920x10808x AA/ 16x AF | 2560x1600No AA/16x AF | 2560x16008x AA/ 16x AF |
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Percent Gainfrom 197.41 to 266.58 | -9.15% | -8.58% | -13.37% | -8.33% | -5.78% | -2.88% |
If you are an addict of World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm, these benchmarks should alarm you. Even though we can't benchmark using 197.41, the results speak for themselves. After every update, performance goes down, especially at 1920x1080 without any anti-aliasing. When playing World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm with the latest driver, you lose nearly 15% of the performance achieved in 257.21.
All of the performance losses happen in a very linear direction in every scenario we benchmarked. There is no special case. There is no strange interaction between a driver and a specific resolution or setting.
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-Fran- Heh, now it cooks my steaks 5 secs faster.Reply
Oh wait... I'm using a GT425M on my notebook... Damn!
Cheers! -
dragonsqrrl Impressive results to say the least... well, except for WOW. That has to be a bit of a disappointment for the people who care about that title. But otherwise quite remarkable performance optimizations from the driver team.Reply
I have to agree with the conclusion, due to the recent nature of the Fermi architecture it probably took both Nvidia and developers time to get used to the new hardware. It just wasn't well optimized upon launch. Although I think it's worth noting that it still managed to perform well even on those early drivers. -
ezodagrom In the World of Warcraft page instead of saying "Percent Gain from 197.41 to 266.58" it says "Percent Gain from 9.10 to 11.1". ;PReply -
acku 9512364 said:In the World of Warcraft page instead of saying "Percent Gain from 197.41 to 266.58" it says "Percent Gain from 9.10 to 11.1". ;P
Oops! My motto: Pobody's Nerfect. :kaola:
Fixed! -
gofasterstripes TBH it looks like good work from the green team. Cool, my 470 is getting bumped for freeReply
On second thoughts, maybe 'cool' is the wrong word.....
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