Third-Person Game Benchmarks
Batman Arkham City is regarded as a poor example of DirectX11 performance by end users, as even higher spec machines struggle with it despite a patch. Since this is a popular game, we can use this to our advantage for testing. Despite this we also include test scores at lower details.
If you desire to play with high details or use the Intel graphics, don't bother with Batman unless you can put up with medium or low details. We see a similar situation with GPU-limited and DirectX11 centric Lost Planet 2. When we throw DirectX11 at Intel HD 4600 it does suffer.
The older Resident Evil 5 even takes a hit. Using the fixed benchmark, where the game renders its scene as fast as possible rather than in real-time, the difference between the three year old GTX460 and Intel HD Graphics 4600 is remarkable.
Also remarkable is the scaling between Ivy Bridge and Haswell, almost a 1/3rd.
