AMD Radeon 6990 Review - Aliens vs. Predator

Submitted by skipclarke on 8 March, 2011 - 21:07

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Review

Aliens vs. Predator

Aliens vs. Predator (AvP) is an FPS title from Rebellion Studios. It allows players to take on the role of either an Alien, a Predator or a human space marine. While the title received mixed reviews, it is a DX11 graphics powerhouse that can bring many machines to their knees.

The demo follows a number of Alien creatures, and makes extensive use of shaders and tessellation. Hitting 60fps in Eyefinity is not possible on a stock Core i7-920 (at max quality settings in-game), even with the Radeon HD 6990 or Radeon HD 6970's in CFX. However, dropping to 3x1600x900 produces a noticeable increase in fps.

AvP basically requires 2GB for any Eyefinity setup. There is an odd disconnect with the benchmark tool. Everyone of the 1GB cards would crawl at 1-2 fps when running 5760x1080. However, the benchmark report would show 5-7 fps as the result. At no point did the FRAPS counter on the screen ever go beyond 2fps.

Below is a table that outlines the performance difference between the Radeon HD 6990 and the comparable SKUs. For example, the Radeon HD 6990 provides a 8fps improvement over an Eyefinity6 CFX configuration in 5x1600x900, and that represents a 36% increase over that Eyefinity6 CFX configuration.

  % improvement of an HD 6990 vs... % improvement of an HD 6990 vs...
E6
CFX
E6 5970 6970
CFX
6950
CFX
E6
CFX
E6 5970 6970
CFX
6950
CFX
5x1 1920x1080 3 10       19% 111%      
1600x900 8 18       36% 150%      
3x1 1920x1080 10 21 37 4 7 37% 131% N/A 12% 15%
1600x900 17 30 26 4 9 50% 143% 104% 9% 21%
WS 1920x1080 21 49 30 -3 7 34% 144% 57% -3% 9%
1600x900 26 63 37 -2 10 32% 143% 53% -2% 10%



AMD 6990 AvP 5x1


AMD 6990 AvP EF


AMD 6990 AvP WS