| Call of Duty 4 Beta GPU Performance |
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| Written by Chris Tom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Friday, 12 October 2007 13:43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jeff has finished his benchmarks of Call of Duty 4 beta. This time around 9 cards are tested with the game, and it certainly is quite GPU intensive.
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It just seems like minutes ago that we published our benchmarks of Portal and Half Life 2 Episode 2. Ok, so it was. Now we bring you something not from Valve with Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare, and almost exactly two years after we first benchmarked Call of Duty 2.. Call of Duty 3 meant nothing for PC gamers as it was console only. Boo!ÂÂ
Here's our test system. We used the Windows XP Professional 32 bit with the beta Nvidia drivers version 169.75 released earlier this week.
Fraps was the only solution for Call of Duty 4 beta as the built in benchmark commands just do not work. We tested near the end of the demo where you are fighting off enemies from a tank. The settings were cranked to the max, and you can definitely see that from the performance. ÂÂ
 It is no surprise to see that the 8800s out on top, but they are humbled at only 53 frames per second. It is clear that like Call of Duty 2, COD4 is going to need some punch behind it. The X1950 Pro does an honorable job at 32 FPS, and it is closely trailed by the 8600GTS and the 7900GTX which each are trying to reach 30FPS. The budget DX10 cards drop further down at the 8600GT manages just 21, and the 2600XT really is hit hard with just 15FPS. That ties it with the older 7600GT. ÂÂ
At 1600X1200 we begin to separate the men from the boys. The 8800s tied again at 41FPS and amount of memory doesn't seem to matter again. A distant third is the 1950 at 25 FPS with the 7900GTX just behind. The only other card that manages to break 20FPS is the 8600GTS. You can see budget cards are not going to be able to cut it at high resolutions, and high settings. We are going to continue to add more results to our tests as games keep coming fast and furious. Stay tuned for more results. ÂÂ
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