GRID
Popular racing game Race Driver: GRID has been introduced to our benchmark suite to offer a little variation from the usual first-person shooters.
We haven't shown the numbers at 2,560x1,600 resolution as the game suffers huge slowdown even loading the menus, and performance is both poor and wholly inconsistent on even the latest and most-powerful hardware, especially if equipped with a <1GB framebuffer.
Should this issue get fixed in an update to the game we may well revisit Race Driver: GRID at the highest resolution, but for the moment only 1,680x1,050 and 1,920x1,200 resolutions are benchmarked.
GRID is most definitely a win for AMD, with the Force3D HD 4870 bettering all others, even the considerably more-expensive BFG GeForce GTX 280.
The EVGA GTX 260 FTW again sits between the reference GTX 260 and GTX 280 in performance, and manages to achieve over 60fps at 1,920x1,200 - but considering performance is only slightly better than the PowerColor HD 4850, a card that costs less than half as much, it certainly wouldn't be the card we'd recommend if Race Driver: GRID performance was your primary concern.
