AMD Never Settle Game Bundle & Catalyst 12.11 Driver Performance

By Nathan Kirsch

Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham City PC Game

Batman: Arkham City is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by Rocksteady Studios. It is the sequel to the 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum, based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. The game was released by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The PC and Onlive version was released on November 22, 2011.

Batman: Arkham City Game Settings

Batman: Arkham City Game Settings

Batman: Arkham City uses the Unreal Engine 3 game engine with PhysX. For benchmark testing of Batman: Arkham City we disabled PhysX to keep it fair and ran the game in DirectX 11 mode with 8x MSAA enabled and all the image quality features cranked up. You can see all of the exact settings in the screen captures above.

Batman: Arkham City Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 Vapor-X was able to average 3% higher in Batman: Arkham City at 1920×1080 with the new Catalyst 12.11 drivers. The performance increase at 2560×1600 was just shy of 2%. Not a significant difference, but any performance gain is nice to see for free.

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