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Seven Friends of a Gamer: GPUs vs. Games Spring 2007 (page 3)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko, Anton Shilov

[ 03/30/2007 | 12:55 PM ]

Performance in Battlefield 2142

This sequel to the popular Battlefield series debuted on the list of our benchmarks in our article called 25 Signs of Perfection: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX in 25 Benchmarks. The player finds himself in the future, right in the heat of a battle between two superpowers – the European Union and the Pan Asian Coalition. The game’s visuals are top quality, yet are not far better than those of Battlefield 2, to tell you the truth. The gameplay will please any fan of sci-fi shooters because the player is offered a variety of exciting ways to pass away the time, particularly piloting and controlling various battle machinery.

Premium/High-End Class

The Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX is superior in Battlefield 2142 and is going to remain such until the arrival of a new flagship graphics card from ATI/AMD based on a new-generation GPU. Nvidia’s card provides enough performance for you to play with enabled full-screen antialiasing in any resolution, including 1920x1200 and, perhaps, even 2560x1600 pixels.

The ex-leader GeForce 7950 GX2 is somewhat faster than the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX, but not by much. These graphics cards can both be used to play at a resolution of 1280x1024, 1600x1200, and even 1920x1200 pixels. You should be aware, however, that the ATI Radeon solution offers a much higher quality of anisotropic filtering than graphics cards from Nvidia on G7x GPUs which do not support angle independent anisotropic filtering algorithms.

The choice is obvious in the Premium class. The GeForce 8800 GTX is unrivalled. None other graphics card available can challenge it. In the High-End class you choose between the Radeon X1950 XTX and the GeForce 8800 GTS. Nvidia’s card supports DirectX 10, which does not matter much at this time, and performs faster, which balances the scale in favor of 8800 GTS.

The Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 features out-dated technologies and would only make an appealing option if there were a total lack of other alternatives. Well, if you already own such a card, you shouldn’t hurry to replace it. It will be delivering high enough performance until there is choice between the GeForce 8800 GTX and the new-generation flagship solution from AMD.