StarCraft II and Battlefield 3
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a sequel that improves on the original with an excellent campaign mode, incredible cut scenes and a multiplayer experience that never seems to grow old. Real-time-strategy games don't come much better than this.
Frame-rate doesn't as matter much in StarCraft II, and it felt smooth enough to play.
Battlefield 3
Acting as a bridge between old and new benchmarks, here's how the XFX performs in the 1,920x1,080 Ultra quality test (0x AA and High Post processing). Numbers are reported using the latest AMD and NVIDIA drivers - Catalyst 11.10 and Forceware 285.62, respectively - and a different test system is used.
There are fewer GPUs in this test but the picture is quite clear; XFX's card benchmarks between a GTX 560 and GTX 560 Ti. The average and minimum frame-rate is just about acceptable at the resolution and image-quality setting.
Remember that the preceding games have been tested at 1080p with ultra- or very-high-quality settings, reaffirming our belief that a £150 card is good enough for most modern games.
