Call of Duty 2Call of Duty is perhaps one of the most demanding games on your computer hardware. Some real differences can be measured here from one card to the next.
We used
FRAPS to monitor the minimal and average frame rate as we played through a section of the game demo of CoD2.
Let's start again at 1280x1024, without optimisations :
Adding some AA and AF is definately taxing :
Moving over to 1600x1200 :
Final test with optimisations enabled :
In Call of Duty 2 the missing pipes come into play : not counting the 1280x1024 4/16 test, the 7900GT is 30-50% faster than a standard 7900GS. But what a difference the factory OC of the XFX makes : the extra speed on core and memory really plays out now and makes for an exellent performance boost, closing the gap with the GT to 10-20%.
For a final game test, let's have a look at Battlefield 2 ->