We've switched over to AMD's Phenom quad-core processor for our video card benchmarks and also exchanged out a few games. Here's our current test system.

Our test system was Windows XP Professional SP2 with 7.12 revision of ATI's Catalyst drivers and 169.21 for Nvidia's.

Let's start things off with Crysis, the most advanced game engine on the market currently.

Here we see it is incredibly close with the 8800 GT 256MB against a 3870 with the new and improved GeForce 8800 GTS 512 coming out on top. This isn't too surprising as they are almost equa

Not much change in World in Conflict although the 3870 comes out ahead by a few frames per second over the 8800 GT 256MB.