XFX R7750 Black Edition Review

Performance 

The XFX R7750 will easily handle games at resolutions up to 1600 x 900 while more scalable titles such as Dirt 3 and Batman: Arkham City will run smoothly even at Full HD  with everything maxed out. More intense games such as Metro 2033, which has a lot of DX11 Tessellation effects, struggle on this card. Throughout our benchmarks, the card ran whisper quiet even when stressed. The dual fans do a very good job of cooling the card as well as keeping noise levels down to a minimum. We used Furmark to stress the card and log its temperatures. At idle, we managed to get a temperature of 41 degrees Celsius whereas even under load, the temperature would not breach the 54 degree mark.

3DMark 11

3DMark is a computer benchmarking tool created and developed by Futuremark Corporation to determine the performance of a computer's 3D graphics rendering and CPU workload handling capabilities. The latest version makes extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. We used the ‘Performance’ preset for this benchmark.

Battlefield 3

Battlefield 3 is a first-person shooter developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and is based on the new Frostbite 2 game engine. The game only supports DX10 and DX11, which enables enhanced in-game destruction with Destruction 3.0, creating more refined physics than its predecessor and quasi-realtime radiosity using Geometrics' Enlighten technology. The game is a visual treat and a nightmare for graphics cards, which makes it perfect for our test. We used the ‘Ultra High’ preset, Post AA: High, Blur: Full, Field of View: 90, Level: ‘Fear no Evil’.