Sleeping Dogs started development as an original title, but was announced in 2009 as True Crime: Hong Kong, the third installment and a reboot of the True Crime series. As a result of the game’s high development budget and delays, it was canceled by Activision Blizzard in 2011. Six months later, it was announced that Square Enix had picked up the publishing rights to the game, but the game was renamed Sleeping Dogs in 2012 since Square Enix did not purchase the True Crime name rights.
This game is still a system killer at these maximised settings. We test at 1920×1080 and 2560×1600.
All of the graphics cards on test today can maintain smooth frame rates at 1920×1080 with these settings, but they all drop below 25 fps at 2560×1600. The enhanced overclock of the Sapphire HD7970 6GB Toxic Edition places it right behind the GTX780 at 1920×1080, but it claims the top position at 2560×1600. As we would expect the R9 280X is slightly slower than the HD7970 Toxic Edition.