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Almost a Champion: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Gaming Performance Review (page 3)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko, Anton Shilov

[ 05/24/2007 | 03:39 PM ]

Performance in First-Person 3D Shooters

Battlefield 2142

Battlefield 2142 game does not pose a lot of load on geometry/vertex shaders, however, the game itself seems to put pretty heavy load pixel shader units of graphics processors.

All the participators here provide comfortable or nearly comfortable level of performance in resolutions up to 1600x1200. We cannot say that the GeForce 8800 GTS or the Radeon X1950 XTX deliver really good performance in 1920x1200 resolution, though, the speed is still nice.

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT shows pretty illogical results in Battlefields 2142: on the one hand, its minimal framerate per second (FPS) is considerably higher compared to the GeForce 8800 GTS, whereas its average FPS is inline with the more expensive 8800 GTX.

Call of Juarez

Call of Juarez game title is full of high-definition rendering and pixel shaders, however, it does not look like to be full of geometry.

Only the GeForce 8800 GTX and the Radeon HD 2900 XT provide appropriate performance in 1280x1024 resolutions, while no other board tends to offer comfortable framerate neither in this, nor with other resolutions.

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT is indisputably faster than Nvidia’s GeForce 8800 GTS, however it fails against the more powerful GTX model in 1600x1200 and 1920x1200 resolutions.