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The Quick and the Totaled: ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro Graphics Card Review (page 7)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

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

Call of Juarez

The hero of this review performs well in this one of the most demanding games of today. It outperforms the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB thanks to the architecture that shows its best in computations-heavy tasks. Few graphics cards priced at less than $300 can boast a comfortable speed in Call of Juarez but the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro can do that even at a resolution of 1600x1200, keeping the minimum of speed within acceptable limits. That’s an excellent result.

Unfortunately, we cannot say the same about the Call of Juarez demo that demonstrates new effects created using DirectX 10 capabilities. Well, as we already know, this test is too heavy even for the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX. As you could learn from our reviews, the transition to the new API doesn’t go smooth, and even most expensive graphics cards often fail to provide an acceptable speed in available DirectX 10 applications.