Dragon Age 2 Benchmarks

Dragon Age 2 Demo Benchmarks

My Configuration:

Code:

M11xR2
Core i7-640UM 2.26 Turbo
4GB RAM
335M GT (Verde 266.58 Driver)
500 GB 7,200 RPM HD

My In-game Settings:

Code:

(1)	Resolution: 1366x768
	Renderer: DirectX 9
	Graphics detail: Medium
	Anisotropic filtering: 16x

(2) 	Resolution: 1366x768
	Renderer: DirectX 11
	Graphics detail: High
	Anisotropic filtering: 16x

BIOS/Settings:

Code:

(a)	TurboBoost: On
	Overclock: Off
	ThrottleStop: On (TPL: 100/100)

(b)	TurboBoost: On
	Overclock: On (166 MHz)
	ThrottleStop: On (TPL: 100/100)

Results (Benchmarks from FRAPS):

Code:

DX9
(1a)
[U]Frames	Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg[/U]
7579         141785	26	53	53.454

(1b)
[U]Frames	Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg[/U]
7805         145288	26	43	53.721


DX11
(2a)
[U]Frames  Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg[/U]
3266         165220	8	35	19.768

(2b)
[U]Frames  Time (ms)	Min	Max	Avg[/u]
2924         158135	8	28	18.491

Comments:
From the benchmarks gathered I was particularly surprised with the results.
DX9 performed considerably better than DX11 (~30 frames). I wish I could enable DX10
but the demo doesn't let you (some features are disabled, like Anti-Aliasing). The
game was barely playable on High DX11, I did not try DX9 on High because the maximum it can go
(at least in the demo) is Medium. Anyways I truely hope these benchmarks give you a good idea
about how this game performs or will perform on March 8th the release date.

 

Ok.. first thanks for a good post. Good graphs and great info. Now, with that said, how can you be sure you are really running DX11? The reason I ask is because the nvidia 335mGT is a dx10.1 card. No higher. The 4xx series nvidia's started Dx11 support. I am wondering if the setting for dx11 in game actually utilized the Dx10 code?

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-335M.24060.0.html

Anyway +rep and thanks again!

 

Yup I was confused by that as well. Before I ran the game I was aware that it supported DX9,10 and 11, so I was assuming 9 and 10 would be the only options but believe it or not, the only options are DX9 and 11. My guess would be they could have messed up and DX11 is actually DX10 (I guess like what you said) but I can't know for sure until release.

 

The DX11 renderer in the demo isn't being correctly implemented for the demo, so I wouldn't be too concerned with the "DX11" results for now.

Source: Choose Language | BioWare Social Network

 

Thank you for that source.
At least we can confirm DX9 is completely playable at ~60 FPS on Medium (btw there wasn't a big texture difference in High and Medium (just like in Sc2 how Medium and High are almost identical) - hopefully Ultra will be a lot more different in the release as well as DX11 issues ironed out. Someone said this is an old demo build too.