ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Vista Performance
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Max Slowik
Kurtis
ATI
May. 30, 2007
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Testing - Company of Heroes

This amazing WWII real-time strategy game is also very demanding, and will use all the horsepower you can throw at it. We're using the in-game benchmarking utility, with the graphics set to maximum for the first series of benchmarks, and then again with anti-aliasing. For both series of tests, physics is disabled as it seems to introduce a lot of variability in the benchmark results. Patch 1.61 was used.
Between patches and driver revisions, on both ATI and NVIDIA hardware, CoH sometimes displays frame-rate throttling at 60FPS. Until we can find a way to disable the cap, we'll let you know when hardware is running at its limits or if it's just being throttled on the Performance Summary page.
Company of Heroes @ 1280 x 1024
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ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB VISTA
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB XP
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB VISTA
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB XP
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB VISTA
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB XP
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB VISTA
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB XP
Company of Heroes @ 1600 x 1200
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ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB VISTA
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB XP
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB VISTA
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB XP
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB VISTA
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB XP
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB VISTA
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB XP
Company of Heroes @ 1920 x 1200
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ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB VISTA
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB XP
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB VISTA
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB XP
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB VISTA
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB XP
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB VISTA
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB XP
1 - Posted by
Anony
on June 2, 2007 - 10:51 pm
Just a heads up that you might not know but the HD 2900XT does not actually feature any HD hardware acceleration at all. Check up on http://www.techreport.com for the verified word from ATI themselves. Apparently only the lower end versions have it, much like nVidia's situation.
2 - Posted by
Kurtis
on June 2, 2007 - 11:29 pm
3 - Posted by
Max Slowik
on June 3, 2007 - 11:25 am
You're right though, I word that awkwardly, and probably shouldn't say in the conclusion that it has hardware Avivo (which what it doesn't have is HD Avivo). On the other hand, it still uses Avivo, and the video playback quality is far and away better than on the 8800GTS 640, specifically SD playback. I can't vouch for HD content because I don't have HD media yet.
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