Performance in Strategies

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

The game having a frame rate limiter, you should consider the min speeds of the cards in the first place. This parameter determines your playing comfort in Command & Conquer 3 .

The difference is smaller than in X3: Reunion even. It is almost missing altogether. And it does not matter whether you run the game on a standard or overclocked GeForce 8800 GTX, or on any GeForce 8800 Ultra, or even on a Radeon HD 2900 XT, as each of these graphics cards will ensure maximum playing comfort in this highly popular strategy game.

Company of Heroes

We tested the game in the pure speed mode with enabled anisotropic filtering only, because it has problems when you turn on FSAA.

The overall picture resembles what we have seen in the open scenes of TES IV: Oblivion . There is no strong need to use such an expensive solution as GeForce 8800 Ultra even for 1920x1200 resolution, but you’ll have some additional reserve of minimum speed if you’ve got this card.

Unfortunately, the Radeon HD 2900 XT still has a very low minimum of speed despite the new version of Catalyst: there is little playing comfort when the game speed occasionally plummets from 75-120fps down to 13fps.

Supreme Commander

The numbers are indicative once again that the formidable processing power of the GeForce 8800 Ultra is not actually called for in resolutions below and including 1920x1200. The best you can achieve is a 9-14% bonus to the average speed. Considering that the average speed is as high as 53-60fps and the minimum is 42-46fps, this bonus doesn’t mean anything for an RTS.