NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Review - Total War: Shogun 2

This benchmark is included with Total War: Shogun 2. This is the one instance we are not running at full "max" settings with 4xAA/16xAF. The benchmark simply will not run at these settings in Eyefinity on any 1GB card. To enable a consistent benchmark across all cards I've used these settings: "Very High" preset, 2xAA, and all the DX11 options turned on.

The title showcases a number of scenes - both broad views of large scale battles (with large numbers of units), and highlighting the detail in marching columns of soldiers.

This is the one title where the AMD cards are clear winners. The Radeon HD 7950 beats the GTX 670 by more than 10fps in widescreen, and almost 10fps in multi-monitor. Based on our experience with running this benchmark on a range of AMD video cards, we've found that RAM is a major limiting factor in performance and even in allowing the benchmark to run. I believe the extra RAM on the Radeon cards is helping performance here. Additionally Shogun 2 is an AMD "Gaming Evolved" title and has been optimized for their hardware.