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MSI RX2600XT Diamond 512 Graphics Card: A Jewel of HD 2600 XT Carats (page 8)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

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

Call of Juarez

It’s like in the previous test, but Nvidia’s mainstream solutions are on the losing side as they have a smaller computing capacity than ATI Radeon HD 2600 cards.

Anyway, this is a very demanding application and the best result the RX2600XT Diamond 512 can deliver is only 27fps at 1280x1024. This is far from being comfortable. To have a better result you’ll need at least a GeForce 8600 GTS 320MB, but even its performance may drop below 25fps in scenes with lots of objects, characters and special effects.

Talking about the upcoming DirectX 10 version of Call of Juarez, even Nvidia’s GeForce 8800 GTS doesn’t look good in it. We didn’t test the resolutions above 1280x1024 as it doesn’t make sense considering that you have a frame rate of only 4-17fps in it. We should note, however, that the MSI product is almost 20% ahead of the reference card.