The testing setup includes
- Intel E6400
- Biostar P45 Motherboard
- 2 GB PC-6400 DDR2 ram
- Windows Vista w/ Service Pack 1
For comparison, we’ll compare the AMD Radeon HD 4870 with a GeForce 8800GTX and an AMD Radeon HD 4850.
First up is the 3DMark Vantage from Futuremark.
Here's the latest benchmark from the folks at Futuremark. Newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10, it includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware. 3DMark Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft. What is reported below are just the GPU scores at the default settings.
Call of Juarez is a First Person Shooter for PC, inspired from the greatest movies of the Western genre. It is the first 'serious' and the most realistic adaptation of the genre. Developed by Techland Studio, the game draws on the major themes of the American Wild West through confrontation between the two principal emblematic characters. I ran the benchmark program that was done up by Techland and set it to 1600x1200 resolution along with high shadows.
Company of Heroes is an RTS that really pushes video cards. The game by the fine folks at Relic Entertainment is set in WWII and features deformable terrain as well as great physics. The level of detail in the game for an RTS is amazing. For the tests, we set everything at maximum or ultra to ensure that the card was taxed as much as possible and the resolution was set at 1600x1200.
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