


Since the 7900 XT’s performance is already well established and the Sapphire Pulse doesn’t come with a fierce overclock, we spot-checked a smaller handful of titles spanning those various APIs to show the performance differences between the Pulse and the reference card. We usually test a variety of games spanning various engines, genres, vendor sponsorships (Nvidia, AMD, and Intel), and graphics APIs (DirectX 9, 11, DX12, and Vulkan), to try to represent a full range of performance potential. Corsair HX1500i power supply (and optional $20 12VHPWR 600 cable for Nvidia GPUs).32GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo DDR4 3800 memory, XMP active.

Most of the hardware was provided by the manufacturers, but we purchased the storage ourselves. Nvidia also recommends turning on the optional “Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling” option in Windows to let the RTX 40-series stretch its legs to the fullest, so we’ve made that tweak as well. We now test with PCIe Resizable BAR (also known as Smart Access Memory on Ryzen systems) active, as most modern gaming PCs released in the last four years support the performance-boosting feature, either natively or via a motherboard firmware update. Table of Contents Preface.1 Contact Information.1 Copyrights.1 Introduction.2 What's New In This Version.2 Loading a Plug−in.2 Browsing and Selecting Presets.2 Editing and Designing Lens Flares and other elements.3 Using the Sapphire Effect Builder.5 Using Mocha in Sapphire.8 Resetting Parameters to Defaults.9 Online Documentation.9 GPU Acceleration.10 About Motion Blur.10 About Matte Inputs.10 About Alpha Channel Processing.11 About Angle Parameters.11 About Pixel Aspect Ratios.11 Customizing Plug−ins.12 Known Problems.12 Acknowledgements.13 Effects.14 S_Aurora.15 S_AutoPaint.19 S_BandPass.22 S_Beauty.25 S_BleachBypass.30 S_Blur.33 S_BlurChannels.36 S_BlurChroma.39 S_BlurDirectional.42 S_BlurMoCurves.45 S_BlurMotion.49 S_BokehLights.53 S_Brush:Chalk.58 S_Brush:Oil.62 S_CardFlip.66 S_Cartoon.68 S_CartoonPaint.71 S_Caustics.74 S_ChannelSwitcher.77 S_ClampChroma.80 S_Clouds.82 S_CloudsColorSmooth.85 S_CloudsMultColor.88 S_CloudsPerspective.92 S_CloudsPsyko.96 S_CloudsVortex.100 S_Convolve.104 S_ConvolveComp.108 S_Crosshatch.113 S_CutToDissolve.117 S_Deband.119 S_DefocusPrism.122 Sapphire Plug−ins v11.0 for After Effects i Table of Contents Effects S_Diffuse.126 S_DigitalDamage.129 S_Dissolve.We test graphics cards on an AMD Ryzen 5900X PC used exclusively for benchmarking GPUs. Sapphire Plug-ins v11.0 for After Effects - Please enable JavaScript to view the full PDF
