Performance in First-Person 3D Shooters

Battlefield 2

Having obtained 256 megabytes of fast memory, the new incarnation of GeForce 6600 doesn’t look as bad against the RADEON X1300 PRO as the older one. The GeForce 6600 GDDR2 is even faster than the X1300 PRO as well as the RADEON X700 in 1600x1200 resolution, but the frame rate of 27fps may not be enough for comfortable play. The XFX card is faster than the reference sample due to the higher GPU clock rate, but not too much in applications (Battlefield 2 is among them) that mostly load the graphics memory subsystem. Graphics cards from this price range do not allow playing Battlefield 2 in resolutions above 1024x768 because there’s a very small speed reserve in high resolutions and the frame rate may bottom out below comfortable level in some very complex scenes.