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- Date:
- Tuesday , March 21, 2006
- Author:
- Brent Justice
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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CPUs & Real-World Gameplay Scaling
What do different video cards and CPUs mean to gamers in World of Warcraft, F.E.A.R., Battlefield 2, and Call of Duty 2? We played all the games with 6 different CPUs and 4 different video cards to find out the difference in real-world gameplay.
Gameplay Test Data
Before we get started here, lets point out that most of the following sets of graphs will not interest most of you. We would suggest you skip ahead to the Gameplay Summary in order to get the observations that we have pulled together from the 90 graphs that follow. We did however want to include our raw data for those of that wanted to dig deeper and see exactly what we saw in our gameplay testing.
Battlefield 2
(DirectX 9)
For our gameplay evaluation today we are using the full version game using the latest patch and playing through the single player missions in the game.
Intel D975XBX Platform
BFGTech GeForce 7800 GTX OC 512MB
Pentium 4 3.4 GHz EE (Dual Core)
1600x1200 4X TR SSAA/High AF
In-Game Settings: Maximum
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz D (Dual Core)
1600x1200 4X TR SSAA/High AF
In-Game Settings: Maximum
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz Prescott (Single Core)
1600x1200 2X TR MSAA/High AF
In-Game Settings: Maximum
BFGTech GeForce 7800 GTX OC 256MB
Pentium 4 3.4 GHz EE (Dual Core)
1600x1200 4X TR MSAA/High AF
In-Game Settings: Maximum
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz D (Dual Core)
1600x1200 4X TR MSAA/High AF
In-Game Settings: Maximum
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz Prescott (Single Core)
1600x1200 2X TR MSAA/High AF
In-Game Settings: Maximum
BFGTech GeForce 7800 GT OC 256MB
Pentium 4 3.4 GHz EE (Dual Core)
1600x1200 4X TR MSAA/High AF
In-Game Settings: Maximum
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz D (Dual Core)
1600x1200 4X TR MSAA/High AF
In-Game Settings: Maximum
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz Prescott (Single Core)
1600x1200 2X TR MSAA/High AF
In-Game Settings: Maximum
BFGTech GeForce 6600 GT OC 128MB
Pentium 4 3.4 GHz EE (Dual Core)
1024x768 2X AA/High AF
In-Game Settings: Maximum
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz D (Dual Core)
1024x768 2X AA/High AF
In-Game Settings: Maximum
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz Prescott (Single Core)
1024x768 2X AA/High AF
In-Game Settings: Medium
