Performance

Premium/High-End Category

I can’t say that the game is very resource-hungry: in 2560x1600 pretty modest Radeon HD 4890 provides sufficiently high minimal and average performance for comfortable gaming experience, so it makes no sense to invest into more expensive graphics solutions. Looks like the gaming engine favors Nvidia solutions, so if you want to be a little more certain that the performance won’t drop below the acceptable minimum, then you should probably go for a GeForce GTX 285, which is about 12% ahead of the Radeon HD 4890 in average performance, and about 32% ahead – in minimal performance. Yes, GeForce GTX 295 type solutions provide even higher performance levels, but they are expensive, noisy and energy-inefficient. As for ATI solutions of similar type, they simply don’t know to use more than one graphics core in Call of Juarez at all.

So, if you have quite a bit of money at your disposal, we would recommend to get a GeForce GTX 285, but if you decide to save a bit, then Radeon HD 4890 will be just as good even if you have a 30-inch monitor.