nVidia Geforce GT430 Review

Stone Giant is a 3rd party Direct X 11 benchmark developed by BitSquid and FatShark to demonstrate the benefits of pervasive tessellation in a game setting. BitSquid is a start up formed in 2009 from the lead engineers at GRIN, who were the developers of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (and others). Their publisher, FatShark, is based in Sweden and recently released ‘Lead and Gold” on Steam.

This benchmark uses tessellation extensively and DirectCompute to render high quality depth of field with soft bokeh.

We run this benchmark at 1280×720.

The GT430 outperformed the HD5670 in this tessellation heavy benchmark, by around 5 frames per second. It was noticeably smoother in specific points, but both cards were clearly struggling to maintain smooth frame rates, even at 720p.

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