The Shroud Falls - VGA Card Test with Battlefield 2
A trial version of Battlefield 2, released by EA Games, with a level barely released, has already been tested with various graphics cards. Appearance doesn’t cheat, it’s really a resource-intensive game.
Az AMDZone staff conducted a test where the freshly appeared Battlefield 2 speed values while running a trial version of a game program were measured on different VGA cards.
The test machine is one Gigabyte K8NXP SLI motherboard as well as a Athlon 64 It had a 3800+ processor, 1024 MB Corsair XMS in the company of memory. Subjects were selected from the card families of both major manufacturers for testing. The ATI was present by BBA ATI Radeon X850 XT, Sapphire Radeon X800 XL 512 MB. The NVIDIA participants were: They sold 6800 GT, EVGA 6600 GT video cards.
The result is interesting, but it is clear that the game is extremely resource-intensive. Here are some test results from the full article with multiple resolutions:
At this resolution, the GeForce 6600 GT VGA card, which is now absolutely mid-range, pushes the limits of gameplay without any image quality improvement. The higher-end GeForce 6800 GT and Radeon X800 XL frames per second aren’t too much.
In the second table, the same resolution was captured, but now used in conjunction with 4 × edge smoothing and 8 × anisotropic filtration. The smallest video card will bleed when the visual enhancers are turned on, as the display speed, reduced to nearly 30 frames per second, seems low for enjoyable gameplay. For more powerful cards, 256-bit memory bandwidth has a beneficial effect on performance, as the speed is barely noticeable or not at all lower.
Finally, a resolution that is also a problem for the big ones:
The result of less than 30 per second is a good example of the case when the nearly 100 forint video cards also fall to their knees before the task.
