DX11: BattleForge

BattleForge is free Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) developed by EA Phenomic with DirectX-11 graphics capability. Combining strategic cooperative battles, the community of MMO games, and trading card gameplay, BattleForge players are free to put their creatures, spells and buildings into combination's they see fit. These units are represented in the form of digital cards from which you build your own unique army. With minimal resources and a custom tech tree to manage, the gameplay is unbelievably accessible and action-packed.

Benchmark Reviews uses the built-in graphics benchmark to measure performance in BattleForge, using Very High quality settings (detail) and 8x anti-aliasing with auto multi-threading enabled. BattleForge is one of the first titles to take advantage of DirectX-11 in Windows 7, and offers a very robust color range throughout the busy battleground landscape. The charted results illustrate how performance measures-up between video cards when Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) is enabled.

• BattleForge v1.2
  • Extreme Settings: (Very High Quality, 8x Anti-Aliasing, Auto Multi-Thread)

BattleForge Extreme Quality Settings

Cost Analysis: BattleForge (1920x1200)

• $242 Radeon HD 6870 1GB costs $7.06 per FPS
• $255 GeForce GTX 470 1GB costs $5.62 per FPS
• $324 Radeon HD 5870 1GB costs $6.79 per FPS
• $437 GeForce GTX 480 1536MB costs $7.50 per FPS
• $460 EVGA GTX 460 FTW SLI costs $5.93 per FPS
• $484 Radeon HD 6870 CrossFireX costs $7.11 per FPS
• $520 ASUS ENGTX580 1536MB costs $7.69 per FPS
• $520 ASUS GTX 580 Overclocked costs $6.79 per FPS
• $570 Radeon HD 5970 2GB costs $9.44 per FPS

Test Summary: With BattleForge graphics settings turned to their highest quality and SSAO enabled, the GeForce GTX 580 truly shines as it easily surpasses the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 and matches up to a pair of AMD Radeon HD 6870's in CrossFireX. The irony here is that BattleForge isn't even part of NVIDIA's The Way It's Meant To Be Played initiative; it's actually an AMD co-developed game. Nevertheless, all 512 CUDA cores dance past the others to offer one of the more respectable cost to performance ratios. Compared to the pair of overclocked EVGA GeForce GTX 460's in SLI, it takes an overclocked ENGTX580 to match performance.

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