Battlefield: BC2
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 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
ForceWare 257.15 drivers give the GeForce cards a boost at the lower resolutions, enough to ensure that the GeForce GTX 480 is the fastest single-GPU card around.
Direct comparison
Resolution | ZOTAC GTX 480 AMP! | ASUS HD 5870 MATRIX | Percentage better/worse |
1,680x1,050 | 85.78/73 |
76.82/59 |
11.7/23.7 |
1,920x1,200 | 72.81//60 |
64.39/53 |
13/13.2 |
2,560x1,600 | 47.9/40 |
44.2/35 |
8.3/14.3 |
The baddest GeForce GTX 480 this side of anywhere has enough grunt to make the game playable at 2,560x1,600, yet it still trails the HD 5970 by a significant margin.