AMD Radeon HD 6950 & HD 6970 2GB

One of the more popular Internet memes for the past couple of years has been, “Can it run Crysis?”, but as soon as Metro 2033 launched, that’s a meme that should have died. Metro 2033 is without question one of the beefiest games on the market, and though it supports DirectX 11, it’s almost a feature worth ignoring, because the extent you’ll need to go to in order to see playable framerates isn’t likely going to be worth it.

Manual Run-through: The level we use for testing is part of chapter 4, called “Child”, where we must follow a linear path through multiple corridors until we reach our end point, which takes a total of about 90 seconds. Please note that due to the reason mentioned above, we test this game in DX10 mode, as DX11 simply isn’t that realistic from a performance standpoint.

AMD’s offerings strike back here, which again is to be expected when the trend has been that Radeons have excelled in this particular game since its release. In the HD 6970 vs. GTX 580 argument, both cards perform just about the same. That’s no joke… both cards had the same minimum FPS rating, and were 0.019 apart for the averages at 1920×1080. That’s what I call close.