Call of Duty 2

The increase of the GPU clock rate from 625MHz to 700MHz brings certain dividends in Call of Duty 2 . The ASUS card manages to outpace the Radeon X1900 XT two times here, and one time by as much as 20%! Yes, the Radeon X1900 XT carries as many as 48 pixel processors on board and supports the Fetch4 feature for a faster rendering of dynamic shadows using the shadow maps technique, but the boosted frequencies of the ASUS EAX1800XT TOP easily make up for all that.

Here, it is the higher speed of the raster operators (ROPs) that seems to contribute a lot to the overall result. The memory frequency, on the contrary, doesn’t matter much as is indicated by the negligible difference between the Radeon X1900 XT, Radeon X1800 XT and ASUS EAX1800XT TOP in the hardest test mode (1600x1200, 4x FSAA + 16x AF). By the way, this is the single mode in which the EAX1800XT TOP cannot give you a frame rate of 60fps which is necessary for smooth and comfortable play.