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So with the release of the games on the Christmas season I decided to give a look at performance across five games with the XFX GeForce GTX 260 Black Edition card and the nearest competition the ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB card. To round out the performance look I also have included performance compared with the Palit HD 4870 512MB Dual Sonic card and the EVGA GeForce GTX 280 card.
All games were tested with 4x AA and 16x AF on our standard video card test platform. All settings were set to the maximum that the game would allow with graphics options set in the in-game menu when possible. Far Cry's built-in benchmark utility was used for this game but a walkthrough was also performed which gave frame rates in the same neighborhood.
Test System
- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 running at 3.2GHz
- DDR3-2000 Crucial Ballistix DDR3 memory running at 1333MHz
- XFX GeForce GTX 260 216 Black Edition running at 666/1.15 core /memory using Forceware 180.47 Big Bang II drivers
- EVGA GeForce GTX 280 running at reference clock speeds using Forceware 180.47 Forceware Big Bang II drivers
- ATI HD 4870 1GB reference clocked video card running Catalyst 8.11 drivers
- Palit Dual Sonic 512MB HD 4870
- Cooler Master 1250W PSU
- XFX nForce 790i Ultra SLI motherboard running latest drivers
- Windows Vista 32-bit with SP1 installed
Tests
- Far Cry 2 1280X1024, 1920X1200, 4X AA 16X AF, Max settings Custom FRAPS walkthrough of Jungle
- Fallout 3 1280x1024, 1920x1200, 4x AA 16X AF, Max Settings, Custom FRAPS walkthrough of Vault 101
- Left 4 Dead 1280X1024, 1920X1200, 4X AA 16X AF, Max settings Custom FRAPS walkthrough of Subway level
- Dead Space 1280x1024, 1920x1200, 4x AA 16x AF, Max Settings, Custom FRAPS walkthrough of first level
- Call Of Duty World at War 1280x1024, 1920x1200, 4x AA 16x AF, Max settings, Custom FRAPS walkthrough of first level
Game screenshots
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