ASUS MARS 760 4GB Video Card Review

Battlefield 3

Battlefield 3 (BF3) is a first-person shooter video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released in North America on October 25, 2011 and in Europe on October 28, 2011. It does not support versions of Windows prior to Windows Vista as the game only supports DirectX 10 and 11. It is a direct sequel to 2005’s Battlefield 2, and the eleventh installment in the Battlefield franchise. The game sold 5 million copies in its first week of release and the PC download is exclusive to EA’s Origin platform, through which PC users also authenticate when connecting to the game.

Battlefield 3 debuts the new Frostbite 2 engine. This updated Frostbite engine can realistically portray the destruction of buildings and scenery to a greater extent than previous versions. Unlike previous iterations, the new version can also support dense urban areas. Battlefield 3 uses a new type of character animation technology called ANT. ANT technology is used in EA Sports games, such as FIFA, but for Battlefield 3 is adapted to create a more realistic soldier, with the ability to transition into cover and turn the head before the body.

Benchmark Results: The ASUS MARS 760 was able to own Battlefield 3 with the Ultra image quality preset at all of the resolutions. We are talking about 1920×1080 with an average of 129 FPS and 2560×1600 at 80 FPS! BF3 doesn’t use up a ton of frame buffer, so even at 5760×1080 on our NVIDIA Surround setup we were seeing very respectable performance with an average FPS nearing 50. The ASUS MARS 760 easily performed better than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti and the AMD Radeon R9 290X, so this is a serious high-end gaming card.