Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
If Crysis beats the cards with a heavy stick, Lost Planet takes a chainsaw to them. We've run the DX10 code-path and whacked up the in-game image quality to maximum.
SLI performance was somewhat erratic, again.
It's surprising to see that the MSI GeForce 8800 GT produces nearly double the Radeon HD 3870's average frame rate. A look back at our architecture table would hint that both cards would provide reasonably similar performance, given their underlying credentials.
It seems as if this is another game where NVIDIA's drivers exploit the code better, so it will come as no surprise to learn that Lost Planet is another TWIMTBP-sponsored title. We've consistently mentioned that fact because no matter how good the underlying hardware, it's only one part of the overall equation.
Take a look at the majority of popular titles and AMD's 'Get In The Game' (GITG) devrel support is damned by its absence. AMD and NVIDIA both produce decent hardware but NVIDIA's developer-relations team (read optimisation) is better, frankly.
