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MSI RX2600XT Diamond 512 Graphics Card: A Jewel of HD 2600 XT Carats (page 16)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 10/19/2007 | 09:16 AM ]

Performance in Strategies

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

This game having a frame rate limiter, you should compare the minimum frame rates in the first place because it is the minimum speed that determines your playing comfort in Command & Conquer 3.

Only three out of six cards can yield over 20fps, and one of them, the Radeon X1950 Pro, is based on an outdated architecture and one more, the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, belongs to a higher class than the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4 and GeForce 8600 GT/GTS. In other words, if you want to have a really comfortable play, you should spend $150-200 and more for the graphics card, and this is true not only for C&C 3.

Supreme Commander

If we don’t count in the rather expensive Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, it is the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro that feels the best in this game. The GeForce 8600 GTS is at the allowable minimum of performance while the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4 has the worst result of all the tested graphics cards and the overclocking doesn’t help it much.