Diablo III graphical video review by GameGPU

Written by cybertron on 07 March 2015. Posted in Game Reviews

Introduction

We continue our cycles of APU video reviews aimed at testing the top AMD and Intel integrated graphics solutions. Diablo III was the next game accepted for testing integrated graphics solutions.

Game Information

Diablo III is a hack and slash video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The game also contains elements of the Action/RPG and dungeon crawl genres.

The game is part of the Diablo series and a direct sequel to Diablo II. The game, as in the previous parts of the series, takes place in a dark fantasy world called Sanctuary. Events develop around the struggle of the army of Heaven with the army of the Underworld for the peace of Sanctuary.

APU test

Test configuration
test stand	Intel Core i7-4770K AMD A10-Series A10-7850K 8 Gb DDR3-2666 Kingston HyperX Predator MSI A88XM-E35 Asus Z87-A
multimedia equipment	Samsung 2333T LS23CMZKFZ
Software configuration
operating system	Microsoft Windows 8.1
Graphics driver	Intel Iris and HD Graphics Driver for Windows 15.36.14.64.4080 AMD Catalyst 14.12
Monitoring program	MSI Afterburner 4.1 FRAPS

The configurations were tested with MSI Afterburner. The purpose of the test is to determine how platforms from different manufacturers behave under the same conditions. The average and minimum FPS were taken as the performance indicator. Below is a comparison video:

Our configurations were tested at 1920x1080 resolutions at low, medium and high game graphics quality settings.

Summary performance 1920x1080

diablo settings

Testing at various quality settings 1920x1080

diablo 3 fps

At all graphics quality settings, AMD's solution stays in the lead and remains playable at low and medium settings.

Loading threads

Loading of processor cores at low quality settings 1920x1080 %

When using integrated graphics solutions, the game is capable of supporting up to 6 computational threads, but in fact Diablo III uses 2 processor cores.