System Setup

Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition

Intel X58 Smackover Motherboard
3GB Qimonda DDR3-1066MHz

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 w/216 shaders
ForceWare 180.47

ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB
ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB
Catalyst 8.12


300GB Western Digital Caviar SE

Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit w/Service Pack 1

Benchmarks

World In Conflict 1.009
Left 4 Dead
Company of Heroes 1.71
Crysis 1.21
Far Cry 2
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars 1.5

Notes

In the following graphs you’ll see many cases at 2560x1600 where the 512MB cards aren’t able to generate performance results. This is because we ran the majority of our tests with 8xAA and these cards aren’t capable of running with 8xAA at such high resolution.