Performance in First-Person 3D Shooters

Call of Duty: World at War

Starting with version 1.3 we used built-in game options that allow recording the original demo. Unfortunately, this approach doesn’t allow registering the minimal performance.

The budget Radeon HD 4770 CrossFireX tandem yields just a little bit to Radeon HD 4850 X2 (and obviously to Radeon HD 4850 CrossFireX configuration), but it is considerably ahead of all single-processor solutions participating in our today’s test session, including GeForce GTX 285. Moreover, it ensures pretty sufficient performance even in 2560x1600. Not bad, let’s see if this extremely interesting ATI solutions proceeds at the same pace.

Crysis Warhead

But in the second test already the above described ATI tandem slows down, yielding to single-processor cards and falling considerably behind Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 SLI. Unfortunately, the performance of Radeon HD 4770 CrossFireX tandem is too low even in 1280x1024, so there is no practical value in it here. However, Nvidia solutions look just as good, because they can barely reach 20fps. There is hardly any difference between 15 and 20 fps: in both cases the gaming experience will be equally uncomfortable.