Battlefield 4

Publisher: EA

With DICE's newest GPU crippler having been released this past Friday, we quickly took the opportunity to benchmark the game on both the R9 290 and R9 290X, as well as Nvidia's GTX 770 and GTX 780, since these are the most relevant cards. We'll be adding new data to these charts for all current generation cards soon in our in-depth performance analysis of the game.

We chose to run the game at its most demanding 'ultra' preset so as to fully stress the cards in every way possible, except in our 4K test where we disable anti-aliasing as at so sharp a resolution we've found it to be almost unnecessary.

We run a 60 second benchmark on the game's sixth campaign level, Tashgar, during the on rails section at the level's start. We begin the recording as soon as the subtitle for the first line of dialogue appears on screen. Please note that we may use an alternative benchmark in our full performance analysis, but the excellent repeatability and highly demanding nature of this section of the game makes it suitable for our purposes here.