Review-MSI R6970 Lightning: MSI’s best in Radeon Flavor

Now, let’s move on to performance testing! Here’s a list of the hardwares used in our tests:

Test Platform

Test Results

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Vantage

Setting : Performance Preset; PPU Off

3DMark 11

Setting : Performance Preset

Unigine Heaven 2.1

Setting : 1920×1080; DirectX 11; High; AF x16, No-AA

First-person Shooter Games

Alien VS Predator

Setting : 1920×1080; DirectX 11; Texture Quality-Very High; Shadow Quality-High; SSAO-On; AF x16; No-MSAA

Crysis Warhead

Setting : 1920×1080; DirectX 10; Enthusiast Mode; No-AA

LEFT4DEAD 2

Setting : 1920×1080; Maximum Quality; AF-Trilinear; No-AA