Performance
A 9% GPU clock increase and 5% on the memory side of things should see the EVGA with solid increases over the reference hardware and XFX XXX in our subset of demanding tests. Let's see if that's true.Call of Duty 2
Our CoD2 test is a FRAPS run-through on the tankhunt level. The gameplay takes place during a large firefight in the snow, as the Soviets try and repair a communications cable under heavy attack from the opposing force.
A useful improvement at 1024x768 doesn't really carry over to the other resolutions, although the EVGA is the fastest hardware on test overall. The 600/900 EVGA card struggles to better the 580/865 of the XFX XXX Edition.
F.E.A.R.
The F.E.A.R. single player demo was a big win for Radeon X1800 XT hardware in our run-through, on release. The full release of the game promised to be something different, NVIDIA claiming their hardware did much better in that version. Our run-through switches sections (to an easier one for the HEXUS reviewer, but barely less taxing on the hardware) to an encounter with a few clones.
The clock differences are manifest here, the EVGA scaling to around 8% over the reference hardware overall, at all resolutions. That means faster performance than the XFX at all times, as expected.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is a sneak-em-up that's been a very popular cross platform title for some time now. We use our own benchmarking scripts here, created by Team HEXUS to make it easy to gather SC:CT performance data.
More clock scaling in evidence, the EVGA up on the XFX and around 8% up on the reference hardware again. The EVGA, bar the ASUS N7800GT Dual of course, is the fastest single piece of graphics hardware we've yet tested at HEXUS.
