Bioshock Infinite

BioShock Infinite is a first-person shooter video game developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. It was released worldwide for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 platforms on March 26, 2013. Set in 1912, the game has the protagonist, former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt, sent to the floating air city of Columbia to find a young woman, Elizabeth, who has been held captive there for most of her life. Though Booker rescues Elizabeth, the two become involved with the city’s warring factions: the nativist and elite Founders that rule Columbia and strive to keep its privileges for White Americans, and the Vox Populi, underground rebels representing the underclass of the city. Wikipedia

For Bioshock Infinite we used the benchmarking tool Adrenaline Action which allows us to select all of the quality settings and resolution and run a standardized benchmark that’s ensured to be consistent across all runs.

• Ultra Quality
  • FXAA – On
  • Texture Detail – Ultra
  • Texture Filtering – 16x Aniso
  • Dynamic Shadows – Ultra
  • Postprocessing – Normal
  • Light Shafts – On
  • Ambient Occlusion – Ultra
  • Level of Detail – Ultra

Despite Bioshock Infinite looking absolutely beautiful when maxed out, the game wasn’t very intensive on the hardware – notice that the scale goes up to 300FPS here.

Despite all of this high frame rates we are still not CPU limited.  Frametimes also look very good though it should be noted that the frametimes are nowhere close to what the FPS was measuring:
Clearly this is a game that the 960 can handle at 1080p.  How about 4k?

Well this result is certainly a surprise – the 960 can handle 4K admirably in Bioshock.  The confusing part is why is the 960 beating a 780 and almost tying the 970?  The answer most likely is due to new drivers.  The 970 and 780 were tested earlier in the year while the 960 used the latest drivers.