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The Quick and the Totaled: ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro Graphics Card Review (page 6)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 11/26/2007 | 12:01 PM ]

Performance in First-Person Shooters

Battlefield 2142

The ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro seems to have modest results in this test, but you should keep it in mind that it shares the same price category with the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS. Having a comparable price, the AMD solution is much faster and allows playing at a resolution of 1600x1200 with a speed higher than 36fps. So, the only drawback of the Radeon HD 2900 Pro is its low availability in shops. Otherwise, it is a very good choice for gamers who play this popular multiplayer shooter.

BioShock

BioShock doesn’t support FSAA when running in Windows Vista’s DirectX 10 environment. That’s why we benchmarked the cards without FSAA.

With all its visual splendor BioShock is far from being a killer for today’s graphics cards, at least those of them that are based on the ATI R600 and Nvidia G80 processors. Notwithstanding the highest graphics quality settings all of them gave out a comfortable frame rate for 1280x1024 and an acceptable frame rate for 1600x1200. The GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB can keep the speed above 25fps even at 1920x1200. The Radeon HD 2900 Pro is 20-25% behind the Nvidia card depending on the display resolution.