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Max Slowik
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May. 30, 2007
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
(Show All Graphs)
NoAA Full
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB VISTA
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB XP
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB VISTA
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB XP
59
124
59
59
0
FPS
150
 
 
NoAA Full
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB VISTA
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB XP
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB VISTA
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB XP
59
121
59
59
0
FPS
150
 
 

Company of Heroes @ 1600 x 1200
(Show All Graphs)
NoAA Full
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB VISTA
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB XP
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB VISTA
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB XP
57
98
56
57
0
FPS
150
 
 
NoAA Full
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB VISTA
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB XP
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB VISTA
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB XP
57
89
56
57
0
FPS
150
 
 

Company of Heroes @ 1920 x 1200
(Show All Graphs)
NoAA Full
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB VISTA
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB XP
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB VISTA
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB XP
55
58
51
53
0
FPS
150
 
 
NoAA Full
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB VISTA
ATI HD 2900 XT 512MB XP
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB VISTA
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640MB XP
55
58
51
53
0
FPS
150
 
 

 
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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: About the HD 2900 XT, the Card, and the Bundle
Page 3: Test Setup
Page 4: Testing - HL2 Episode 1
Page 5: Testing - F.E.A.R.
Page 6: Testing - Company of Heroes
Page 7: Testing - Prey
Page 8: Performance Summary
Page 9: Conclusion


3 User Comments
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

Yup, we posted news about that, linking to Tech Report as a matter of fact. :)

http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/11599/Radeon+HD+...

Thanks for the heads up, in any event. :)

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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