PowerColor PCS+ AXR9 390X 8GB 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 PowerColor PCS+ AXR9 390X averaged of 40.42 FPS versus the 39.41 FPS of the GeForce GTX 980 and the 35.51 FPS of the AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB video card.

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Benchmark Results: No big performance dips or spikes that are out of the ordinary here! We were happy to see the PowerColor PCS+ AXR9 390X stay above 30FPS for the entire benchmark run!