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- Date:
- Wednesday, June 13, 2007
- Author:
- Brent Justice
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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Radeon HD 2900 XT vs. 320MB 8800 GTS
See how the 320 MB version of the GeForce 8800 GTS compares in games against the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT. If video card value is what you seek, you will want to read this. We have also included some Lost Planet demo DX9 testing with interesting results.
Battlefield 2142
(DirectX 9)
Battlefield 2142, 4th of the Battlefield series games, is a future environment first person shooter. For our gameplay evaluation we found settings that would be playable in single player mode as well as very large player number multiplayer games.
For AF we will force this from the control panel in order to receive higher levels like 16X which there are no options for in-game. We will also force AA from the control panel if the in-game slider does not give us enough options.
Our manual-run through graphed gameplay evaluation will be an entire map on the “Cerbere Landing” single player mission.
There is no mistaking the advantages both GeForce 8800 GTS based video cards bring to Battlefield 2142 over the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT. Even the lowly 320 MB GeForce 8800 GTS is able to smoothly run Battlefield 2142 at 1600x1200 with 16X Transparency Supersampling Antialiasing with full in-game settings. The ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT was able to manage 4X Performance Adaptive AA at 1600x1200. In Performance Adaptive AA mode the Radeon HD 2900 XT operates with fewer alpha texture samples taken than the multisample edge antialiasing. So in this case it is taking the equivalent of 2X AA samples on alpha textures, and 4X AA on edge samples. Compare this to 16X AA samples on edge and alpha textures of both GeForce 8800 GTS based video cards. The performance just simply is not there to go any higher with the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT.
Note that the short downspike to 23 FPS on the 320 MB GeForce 8800 GTS was experienced while standing directly over a grenade while exploding, a situation which results in the character dying, so no loss in the gameplay experience there because of the framerate drop.
Image Quality
Screenshots below are in PNG format to eliminate compression artifacts and can range in file size of 1-3 MB.
The above screenshots illustrate the superior image quality of 16X Transparency Supersampling in Battlefield 2142.