Heaven & Valley

Another benchmark that needs no introduction, both Heaven and Valley are known for the beautiful “journeys” that they take you on. Of the two, Valley is the more recent benchmark, however neither have a preset that allows it to run at 4K and we had to set the resolution manually.

Unigine Valley

First we set it to the highest default settings, Extreme HD, which runs at 1920×1080.

Again we see the 960 performing in between the 750TI and below the 970.  It’s also still lagging behind the 280X.  See the usage/FPS report below:

Next we turned the resolution up to 3840×2160 and left all other settings the same.

As expected 4K is again simply too much for the 960 to handle with only 2GB – memory was maxed out and so it’s no surprise that it’s significantly behind the 970.  The real surprise though was that the overclocked 750 TI was beating it.  However the setups were very slightly different as well as driver versions so it’s not a perfect apples to apples comparison.

Unigine Heaven

First up we ran Heaven at the highest preset available, Extreme.

Usage/FPS Report:

Next we turned the resolution up to 3840×2160 and kept all the other settings the same.

Read on for some gaming benchmarks!