Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB OC 2x DVI Video Card Review

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Tomb Raider (2013)

Tomb Raider E3 2012 Trailer Shows New Game Direction

Marketed as a reboot of the Tomb Raider series, it was released in March 2013. It is an action-adventure game with a much younger female lead character, Lara Croft. It establishes the origins of Lara Croft for a second time, putting her on an island where she much save her friends and escape while be hunted. Played in a third person perspective, survival is key, with elements of exploration and combat.

R7950 Tomb Raider Settings

Running Tomb Raider at 19201080 resolution, with the graphics quality set to Ultimate. While TressFX Hair is a new technology developed in partnership between AMD and Crystal Dynamic, it was enabled to show the difference between the AMD cards; however this puts the GTX 560Ti at a disadvantage since it does not support this physics system.
Sapphire R7 260X Tomb Raider

Benchmark Results: Tomb Raider shows it has been optimized for AMD chipsets, the R7 260X came in almost 10FPS faster than the nVidia GTX 560Ti; and a bit slower than the other two video cards.