Should I Upgrade My GeForce GTX 460 to a GeForce GTX 960 Video Card?

By Nathan Kirsch January 24, 2015

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. metro-settings 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. metroll-cpu-utilization

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

Benchmark Results: The ASUS STRIX GTX 960 DirectCU II OC 2GB video card was found to be 2.61x faster than the NVIDIA GeFroce GTX 460 1GB video card in Metro Last Light.