ASUS MARS 760 4GB Video Card Review

Far Cry 3

Far Cry 3 is an open world first-person shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It is the sequel to 2008’s Far Cry 2. The game was released on December 4th, 2012 for North America. Far Cry 3 is set on a tropical island found somewhere at the intersection of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.[11] After a vacation goes awry, player character Jason Brody has to save his kidnapped friends and escape from the islands and their unhinged inhabitants.

Far Cry 3 uses the Dunia Engine 2 game engine with Havok physics. The graphics are excellent and the game really pushes the limits of what one can expect from mainstream graphics cards. We set game title to 8x MSAA Anti-Aliasing and ultra quality settings.

Benchmark Results: In Far Cry 3 with our aggressive test settings of Ultra preset image qualities and 8X MSAA. We test with 8x MSAA enabled on this benchmark as it was one of the first game titles that we found used more than 3GB of frame buffer and higher resolutions and would highlight the difference in memory capacities on video cards. The ASUS MARS 760 falls down from the top spot of the chart, but is able to hang with the GeForce GTX 780 and the GeForce GTX Titan at 1920×1080 and 2560×1600. It’s only when you get to the triple-monitor setup at 5760×1080 that you see where the 2GB of frame buffer for each GPU (4GB total) shows the Achilles heel of this video card. The ASUS MARS 760 is a solid card for 2560×1600 gaming, but over that you might run into frame buffer issues. Scratch this card off your list if you plan on owning a 4K monitor soon.