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  • EVGA GTX 460 SuperClocked 1GB Video Card Review

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    Metro 2033

    After a great nuclear war the human race has gone underground in Russia to survive and avoid complete extinction. The game is dark, has plenty of dim lighting effect, dark tunnels, and horrible creatures that go bump in the night.

    This is an amazing first person shooter and happens to be one of the most graphic intensive DirectX 11 games on the market today. Metro 2033 is a game that uses about every kind of technology that has been put into DirectX 11 including heavy tessellation and Direct Compute.  The game also feature full PhysX support. provided your using an NVidia graphics card. 

    All of this gives Metro 2033 an incredible gaming experience, that is rough on about any graphic card.
    The Metro 2033 base settings on this benchmark for both cards are set to DirectX 11, Anti-Aliasing AAA, and Anisotropic 16x. PhysX is disabled for this testing to make it a level playing field and the rest of the settings are below.

    2560x1600 - High Quality
    1920x1200 - Very High Quality
    1680x1050 - Very High Quality
    Metro 2033 is a very demanding game that is coded to use an extensive amount of DX11 features.  The GTX 460 does a great job at holding over 30FPS at the lower resolutions, for which Radeon 5770 cannot do.  With that being said Metro 2033 game is well known for playing better on the GTX 400 series card, so if you 're a Metro 2033 fan and need your gaming fix then the GTX 460 would be a good choice.