Need for Speed Most Wanted is one of the latest in a long series of NFS titles. This game is extremely taxing even on some of the highest-end hardware available today if you crank up the video settings. And of course, we do crank up the settings for benchmarking. Unfortunately this game does not support a demo recording feature and there is no built-in benchmarking utility so we play a few circuits and record them with FRAPS.
All of the in-game video settings are maxed out and the only variables are AA, AF, and resolution. Since the AA and AF sliders represent different values on ATI and NVIDIA cards we just test AA and AF at their minimum and maximum respective settings at each resolution.
Need for Speed Most Wanted @ 1280 x 1024 (Show All Graphs)(Collapse Graphs)
No AA / No AF
Full AA / Full AF
ATi X1950XT 256MB
Foxconn 8800GTS 320MB
72
70
0
FPS
120
No AA / No AF
Full AA / Full AF
Foxconn 8800GTS 320MB
ATi X1950XT 256MB
67
65
0
FPS
120
Need for Speed Most Wanted @ 1600 x 1200 (Show All Graphs)(Collapse Graphs)
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