Performance in Third-Person Shooters

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

This game is no revelation in terms of quality and complexity of its visuals, but none of the mainstream graphics card can even get close to delivering a playable frame rate at the highest settings. As we learned in our review of DirectX 10 games, you can drop some settings from High to Medium to improve performance and lose but little in visual quality.

The Radeon HD 2900 Pro is slightly slower than the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB and even provides a higher minimum of speed.

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

We try to get the highest possible image quality from each game, and choosing between FSAA and HDR we preferred the latter. The game was tested with anisotropic filtering only.

The Radeon HD 2900 Pro wins this test just too easily. Delivering the performance of a GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, the ATI card offers a more advanced architecture at a lower recommended price. The only problem is that it may just be missing at your local shop.