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DirectX 10 Games vs. Contemporary Graphics Accelerators (page 7)

Category: Video

by Anton Shilov , Alexey Stepin

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

Company of Heroes

Like with the DirectX 9 version of the game, you can’t normally turn FSAA on in the DirectX 10 version, so we benchmarked the cards without FSAA.

The DirectX 10 version being much alike to the DirectX 9 original, all of the graphics cards, except for the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS, deliver acceptable performance in it.

Here, the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT is an obvious winner, but considering that the game itself differs much from the integrated performance test, we can assume that the GeForce 8800 from Nvidia is capable of ensuring a comfortable frame rate as well.

Lowering the quality settings from Maximum to High/Medium, we can see a considerable performance growth for each graphics card from both ATI and Nvidia.

The ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 1GB GDDR4 still enjoys an impressive lead over the others in terms of minimum frame rate. It amounts to 100% in comparison with the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX in the first test mode and increases to 200% in the second test mode.