X-bit labs

DirectX 10 Games vs. Contemporary Graphics Accelerators (page 12)

Category: Video

by Anton Shilov , Alexey Stepin

[ 08/23/2007 | 11:03 AM ]

Entry-Level Solutions Performance

This class includes graphics cards with a recommended price of $79 and higher:

• ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT - $79/$89
• Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT - $89/$99

These graphics cards are targeted at casual gamers, so we benchmarked their performance without FSAA, limiting ourselves to the maximum level of anisotropic filtering. We used three test modes: with maximum, average and minimum graphics quality.

Call of Juarez

The test results show clearly that modern entry-level DirectX 10 compatible graphics cards are only good for slideshows, not for real gaming.

We can see that the ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT is somewhat faster than its more expensive component in the DirectX 10 version of Call of Juarez.