AMD Radeon R9 Nano 4GB Video Card Review

By Nathan Kirsch

Metro Last Light

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Metro: Last Light is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ukrainian studio 4A Games and published by Deep Silver. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world and features action-oriented gameplay with a combination of survival horror elements. It uses the 4A Game engine and was released in May 2013.

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Metro: Last Light was benchmarked with very high image quality settings with the SSAA set to off and 4x AF. These settings are tough for entry level discrete graphics cards, but are more than playable on high-end gaming graphics cards. We benchmarked this game title on the Theater level.

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We again found around 20% CPU usage on Metro: Last Light.

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Benchmark Results: In Metro: Last Light the GeForce GTX 970 averaged 37.1 and the Radeon R9 Nano averaged 44.9 FPS, so the AMD Radeon R9 Nano had a 21% performance lead over the GTX 970 Mini-ITX card!

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Benchmark Results: Here is a look at our manual FRAPS benchmark over its entirety! We are proud that we were able to run through the level with such precision and give you a look at how the cards stack up to one another over time.