Race Driver: GRID
| Race Driver: GRID (high-end) 1,680x1,050 4xAA 0xAF | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XFX HD 4890 OC 1,024MB | BFG GTX 260 896MB | NVIDIA GTX 275 896MB | BFG GTX 285 1,024MB | Sapphire HD 4890 XT 1,024MB | Sapphire HD 4870 1,024MB |
| 109.18 | 81.88 | 75.63 | 103.26 | 105.22 | 92.14 |
| Race Driver: GRID (high-end) 1,920x1,200 4xAA 0xAF | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XFX HD 4890 OC 1,024MB | BFG GTX 260 896MB | NVIDIA GTX 275 896MB | BFG GTX 285 1,024MB | Sapphire HD 4890 XT 1,024MB | Sapphire HD 4870 1,024MB |
| 94.69 | 69.46 | 61.07 | 86.9 | 86.25 | 80.51 |
| Race Driver: GRID (high-end) 2,560x1,600 4xAA 0xAF | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XFX HD 4890 OC 1,024MB | BFG GTX 260 896MB | NVIDIA GTX 275 896MB | BFG GTX 285 1,024MB | Sapphire HD 4890 XT 1,024MB | Sapphire HD 4870 1,024MB |
| 61.4 | 43.1 | 41.18 | 53.3 | 60.44 | 50.11 |
If Company of Heroes has historically run well on NVIDIA cards, the EGO engine underpinning Race Driver: GRID has run creamily-smooth on ATI hardware. That's still true today, as the HD 4890 XT is between 15-20 per cent faster than HD 4870.
Interestingly, there seems to be some driver-related quirkiness with the GTX 275, because its scores are lower than the GTX 260's - something that should never happen once you factor in the architecture. We observed that the FRAPS-recorded benchmark would display extremely erratic frame-rates, being perfectly playable one moment and practically a slide-show the next, lowering the average frame-rate.
