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XFX GeForce 7900 GT 256MB PCI-E XXX Edition
Black & White 2
 Black & White 2 may not be a hugely successful PC game in terms of sales, but it does an amazing job of stressing video cards. Since the game does not offer the ability to record timedemos, and since it would be very hard to reproduce a very similar "run' in real game-play time and time again, we resorted to using the game's opening sequence where the Gods fly to the island and the Aztecs attack in conjunction with FRAPS to benchmark. This sequence is rendered in real-time, of course, which is why we're able to benchmark with it. The in-game video settings are all set to High under Custom, and the resolution and AA/AF settings are set as needed. As usual, we test each setting 3 times and average the results. The 1.1 patch was used for testing.
Black & White 2 @ 1024 x 768
40
37
33
30
27
25
21
17
16
11
0
FPS
80
Black & White 2 @ 1600 x 1200
28
23
20
20
17
11
10
9
6
0
0
FPS
80
Black & White 2 @ 2048 x 1536
16
15
14
12
4
4
3
2
0
0
0
FPS
80
In Black & White 2, the 7800 GT froze at 2048x1536. The 7600 GT froze at 1600x1200 and 2048x1536. These cards wouldn't freeze EVERY time at these resolutions, but most of the time, so the scores were recorded as 0. I should also note that there is a new patch out for Black & White 2 (1.2) which apparently makes a huge difference in the performance on ATI cards, making things more even between NVIDIA and ATI - according to a recent article at Anandtech.
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The Card & Bundle Page 3: The HDR+AA Fiasco Page 4: Test Setup Page 5: Benchmarks: Half-Life 2 Page 6: Benchmarks: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Page 7: Benchmarks: Quake 4 Page 8: Benchmarks: X3 Reunion Demo Page 9: Benchmarks: Chronicles of Riddick Page 10: Benchmarks: F.E.A.R. Page 11: Benchmarks: Need for Speed Most Wanted Page 12: Benchmarks: Black & White 2 Page 13: Benchmarks: 3DMark '06 Page 14: Overclocking... and Underclocking? Page 15: Performance Summary Page 16: Conclusion 
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