Battlefield 2

The final game we're having a look at in this review is Battlefield 2. This one year old game is also famous for the taxing of hardware, and if you want tobe immersed in the chaos of a battle, this game gives you the experience you're looking for.
As with CoD2, we played the demo of the game and recorded the minimum and average frames per second using the FRAPS utility.


As this game does not give us the possibility to test at 1280x1024, we're backing down one step to 1154x864 :

This setting does not really put our cards to the test. We're hitting the frame cap of 100fps all the time.


The same resolution with AA and AF enabled :

Still not really stressfull for our guinea pigs, but the minimum frame rates are falling already.


On to 1600x1200 :

This test gives us about the same framerates as the previous one.


Finally, our most stressfull test :


Here we can finally see a serious drop in framerates. Battlefield 2 is known to favor nVidia a bit more than ATI, and here it favours the extra pipelines of the 7900GT a little more. The 7900GT has an advantage about 5% over the standard 7900GS, and about 4% over the XFX 7900GS. What the minimal framerates are concerned, the differences are a bit larger, 6 to 15%. All in all, the advantage of the GT over the GS in this game is hardly worth mentioning.