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Review: ATI rolls out Catalyst 9.3 with official Windows 7 support: HEXUS benchmarks high-end graphics

by Tarinder Sandhu on 18 March 2009, 05:00

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), XFX (HKG:1079), BFG Technologies

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Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 1,680x1,050 4xAA MaxAF
BFG GeForce GTX 295XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 *Win7*XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 *Win7*
90.0989.679.5891.81


Far Cry 2 1,920x1,200 4xAA MaxAF
BFG GeForce GTX 295XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 *Win7*XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 *Win7*
84.4982.4867.0484.63


Far Cry 2 2,560x1,600 4xAA MaxAF
BFG GeForce GTX 295XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 *Win7*XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 *Win7*
63.8256.4246.857.17


Graphics cards/performance difference Win7 vs. Vista XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 2,048MB BFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
1,680x1,050  2.45
-11.65
1,920x1,200 2.55
-20.71
2,560x1,600 1.42
-26.64

ATI's performance is pretty much where you would expect it to be in Far Cry 2. NVIDIA's, however, is poor, with the GTX 295 losing more than one-quarter of the average Vista frame-rate at 2,560x1,600 - enough to put it behind the Radeon HD 4870 X2.