Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is the latest addition to our testing suite. The game is set to maximum detail and a 30-second section is FRAPS'd whilst we run through the trenches, stumbling upon a bunch of enemy soldiers and letting rip.
Benchmarks
GeForce
GTX 480 performs much like the
twin-GPU GTX 295 in Bad Company 2, and it's barely any faster than the
Radeon HD 5870. Drivers are in a constant state of flux with this
gaming title, so don't be surprised to see a 15 per cent increase in
performance with one driver drop.
This gaming title is heavily reliant on the host CPU until we hit GPU-bound settings at 2,560x1,600. For example, testing GTX 480 with a Core i7 920 instead of a 965 EE results in a 12 per cent frame-rate reduction at 1,680x1,050.
What's good, though, is that the minimum frame-rates are very close to the average.
This gaming title is heavily reliant on the host CPU until we hit GPU-bound settings at 2,560x1,600. For example, testing GTX 480 with a Core i7 920 instead of a 965 EE results in a 12 per cent frame-rate reduction at 1,680x1,050.
What's good, though, is that the minimum frame-rates are very close to the average.
| Percentage faster/slower | Radeon HD 5870 |
| 1,680x1,050 | 7.5 |
| 1,920x1,200 | 8.9 |
| 2,560x1,600 | 3.5 |
