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Almost a Champion: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Gaming Performance Review (page 6)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko, Anton Shilov

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

FEAR Extraction Point

The well-known psychological thriller remains popular even these days, but what hardware do you need to play this game?

Well, you do have to own a nice graphics card to play in 1920x1440: even the GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB cannot guarantee 60 fps here. Nevertheless, we would say that this board can nearly deliver a pleasant level of performance: at least, framerate never drops below 25 fps. Other graphics cards only can guarantee flawless performance in 1280x1024.

Our today’s hero – the Radeon HD 2900 XT – competes nicely against the GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB, despite of the fact that its minimal fps is lower compared even to the Radeon X1950 XTX.

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter

As usual, due to deferred rendering method used in the game’s engine, we cannot enable FSAA here.

The game is full of pixel shader effects, but it also contains quite a number of textures that need to be filtered with only 16 texture filtering units of the Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB. As a result, the novelty can only demonstrate results similar to Nvidia’s GeForce 8800 GTS here: 8800 GTX is incomparable.