Performance in RPG

Hellgate: London

Overclocked to a GPU frequency of 972MHz, the Radeon HD 3870 wins two out of the three tested resolutions (among the previous-gen single-chip solutions), which would be an excellent result if it were not for the low minimum speed that must be due to the faulty design of the Radeon HD’s texture processors.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

We think TES IV looks best with enabled FP HDR and test it in this mode.

The modified Radeon HD 3870 is about as fast as the Radeon HD 3870 X2 in terms of average performance but shows a higher minimum of speed.

The overclocked card is only second to the GeForce 9800 GTX (the gap is a mere 2-3%) at the first two resolutions in open scenes. At 1920x1200 it is no worse than the Radeon HD 3870 X2 and GeForce 8800 GT 512MB.