Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider is a 2013 action-adventure video game published by Square Enix. Tomb Raider is the fourth title developed by Crystal Dynamics in the Tomb Raider franchise. As the first entry in a new Tomb Raider continuity, the game is a reboot that emphasizes the reconstructed origins of the culturally influential lead character Lara Croft. TombRaider was released on 5 March 2013 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and on 23 January 2014 for Mac OS X. Tomb Raider is presented in third-person perspective. Players take control of the series lead character Lara Croft. The game uses an interconnected hub-and-spoke model that combines action-adventure, exploration, and survival mechanics.[8] Players can traverse between the camps and across the island using footpaths, improvised or already-available ziplines and climbable tracks. Wikipedia

For Tomb Raider 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.

• Ultimate
  • AA – FXAA
  • Texture Quality – Ultra
  • Texture Aniso – 16x Aniso
  • Hair Quality – TessFX
  • Shadow – Normal
  • Shadow Resolution – High
  • SSAO – Ultra
  • Depth of Field – Ultra
  • Reflection Quality – High
  • LOD Scale – Ultra
  • Post Processing – On
  • High Precision RT – On
  • Tessellation – On

Tomb Raider is a beautiful game that has been quite well optimized for a console port.  The 960 can max it out with an almost perfect 60FPS:Usage plots look great and we see FPS dropping into the low 40’s:Frametimes show this – but the 99% is still only at 38FPS so performance really isn’t suffering:
Interestingly performance at 4K seems very poor indeed:
Judging by the logs VRAM isn’t even close to being maxed out so it’s quite strange that the 960 was suffering so badly when it should be in the teens and twenties.