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ASUS ROG ARES II Radeon HD 7990 - The God of War Returns

By James Lu - 29 Jan 2013
Launch SRP: S$2499

Assassin's Creed 3 & Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Assassin's Creed 3

Assassin's Creed 3 uses Ubisoft's AnvilNext Engine which features improved lighting, reflection and cloth rendering, as well as support for some DX11 features such as DirectCompute. Having said that, Assassin's Creed 3 notably does not support DX11 Ambient Occlusion and Tessellation.

The lack of DirectX 11's more taxing features, mainly tessellation, meant that the ARES II was unable to shine in this game, and as a consequence, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 690 was able to catch up, scoring within 2% of it. Nevertheless, it still outscored both the Devil 13 and 7970 CrossFireX setups by about 13-15%.

 

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Black Ops 2 is running an updated version of Black Ops' IW 3.0 engine and now features reveal mapping (improved texture blending), improved water effects, improved lighting effects, lens flare effects, HDR lighting, bounce lighting, self-shadowing and intersecting shadows.

The ARES II absolutely crushed this game, scoring 219FPS at 1920 x 1200 resolution and 156.7FPS at 2560 x 1600. Unfortunately the Devil 13 was no longer available for testing on this game, but the comparison results are adequate enough to paint the picture. 

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  • Performance 9.5
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The Good
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The Bad
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Plain aesthetics
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