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The Second Encounter: DirectX 10 Games vs. Contemporary Graphics Accelerators (page 15)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko, Anton Shilov

[ 10/26/2007 | 02:20 PM ]

PT Boats: Knights of the Sea demo

Here, the problem we had with the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB affects the GeForce 8600 GTS. The ForceWare 163.69 driver needs to be polished off better. The ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro is the only card to pass the test successfully, having a good enough result at 1280x1024. It doesn’t mean the speed is playable, though, especially considering the behavior of the faster Radeon HD 2900 models. Perhaps there’ll be improvements in the next version of ATI Catalyst.

The results of the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4 speak for themselves – the card won’t suit for playing PT Boat.

World in Conflict demo

The ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro enjoys a small lead, yet neither it nor the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, let alone the graphics card based on mainstream GPUs, offer an acceptable speed World in Conflict at the maximum graphics quality settings.