Time to see how the "Ambient Occlusion" feature in the nVIDIA Control Panel affects the performance.

If a game doesn't support Ambient Occlusion by its own, with an nVIDIA graphics card you can force ( enable ) Ambient Occlusion by enabling it at the nVIDIA driver's control panel ( there's a "Performance" oriented setting, and the maximum image quality "quality" setting ).

Let's take a look at 2 games for now:

Ambient Occlusion

NFS Shift ( 1920x1440, 2xAA 16xAF, Max Details )
Off = min 138 - avg 155.617 - max 183
Performance = min 105 - avg 113.608 - max 130
Quality = min 78 - avg 85.533 - max 98

Resident Evil 5 Benchmark - Fixed Benchmark ( 1920x1080, 4xAA 2xTrSSAA 0xAF, Max Details )
Off = min 146 - avg 169.667 - max 220
Performance = min 117 - avg 136.976 - max 189.5
Quality = min 109.5 - avg 129.15 - max 172.5

Have you tryed 3dmark or like heaven ?

I never seen that setting lol

With games I just set everything to max quality

Stock results, benchmark's default settings:

3D Mark11

P = 9271
X = 3304

3D Mark Vantage:
P = 32720
X = 19381

HWbot Heaven Xtreme = 2013.305

The above results taken with the following setup:

i7-2600K @ 4.2GHz
32GB DDR3-1600 10-10-10-24
GTX 680 Stock
Win7x64 SP1
301.10 WHQL Driver

^ Sick ^

Full Screen Anti-Aliasing: Multi-Sampling vs Super-Sampling

Call of Juarez, DirectX 10, Max Details, Ambient Occlusion @ Performance @ nVIDIA Driver

0xAA = min 62.566 - avg 113.533 - max 198
4xMSAA = min 40.266 - avg 98.333 - max 183.5
4xSSAA = min 24.266 - avg 61.7 - max 97.433

holy shit, I'm starting to want one of these :D

How about ~2 hours ( 108 minutes ) of continuous BattleField 3 gameplay ( one map, 1000 tickets haha ) in Caspian Border @ Conquest Mode @ 32 players ?

System specs:
2600K @ 4.2GHz
32GB DDR3-1600
GTX 680 @ 1202MHz ( steady, not moving up or down at all ) GPU Core -- 1778MHz MEM ( GDDR5-7114 )

BattleField 3 Settings:
Everything at max ( Ultra ) EXCEPT: PostAA = Medium
Deferred Anti-Aliasing @ 4x ( MSAA 4x )
Anisotropic Filtering @ 16x
Drivers Set to max quality like shown in a previous post of mine

And the final stats...

Minimum FPS: 46.666 --- Average FPS: 70.426 --- Maximum FPS: 138.444

26 minutes @ Wake Island Conquest Assault Large

1920x1080 2x MSAA 2xTrSSAA 16xAF - All Max except Post AA @ Medium ( HBAO On of course )
4.2GHz 2600K
69GB DDR3-1600 10-10-10-24 1T
GTX 680 @ 1254MHz GPU Core, 1777MHz MEM
301.10 WHQL

http://www.abload.de/img/wake_islandsfukk.png

Here's my short ( yeah right! ) review for the GeForce GTX 680 @ 1080p resolution.

http://www.benchzone.com/page.php?al...gtx_680_review

Contents:

http://www.abload.de/img/1080p_review_summaryrru3h.png

Me too!if it wasn't a paper launch but I do Thank them for bringing down prices of the 7970!!!
I wont buy Team Green brand new again as they gouge the consumers pocket usually for all there worth!!!