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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Graphics Performance
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The wait is over as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released worldwide this week. Developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision, this is the sixth installment in the series and a direct sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
We expect Modern Warfare 2 to be just as hardware friendly as its predecessor despite the numerous engine enhancements. In our graphics card performance evaluation we'll be testing a large range of previous and current generation GPUs, both mainstream and high-end chips from the GeForce 9600GT and Radeon 3000 series, to the recently launched Radeon HD 5000 GPUs, dual GPU cards from Nvidia and ATI, and even a Radeon HD 5770 Crossfire setup to make up for a total of 19 different GPU configurations.
Needless to say, this should give you a perfect picture of how your current or prospective system will perform in Modern Warfare 2.
Read the complete article.
We expect Modern Warfare 2 to be just as hardware friendly as its predecessor despite the numerous engine enhancements. In our graphics card performance evaluation we'll be testing a large range of previous and current generation GPUs, both mainstream and high-end chips from the GeForce 9600GT and Radeon 3000 series, to the recently launched Radeon HD 5000 GPUs, dual GPU cards from Nvidia and ATI, and even a Radeon HD 5770 Crossfire setup to make up for a total of 19 different GPU configurations.
Needless to say, this should give you a perfect picture of how your current or prospective system will perform in Modern Warfare 2.
Read the complete article.
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User Comments (56)
Post a comment| Guest on November 11, 2009 5:45 AM | Here's a nice video of Modern Warfare 2 on, gtx 295 , i7
920 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4t0XmrgWi0 |
| Puiu on November 11, 2009 7:44 AM | I never expected such low requirements for a game that looks so good. and has so much action. This goes to show that if you put a bit of effort into it you can get outstanding results. (unlike a certain crysis) |
| Kibaruk on November 11, 2009 8:08 AM | Too bad you left the Ati XT2600HD out =( I'm still in love of that video card hehe |
| Kibaruk on November 11, 2009 8:11 AM | I'm wondering, would you make a comparison just for gigs of the old video cards vs the new ones? =) |
| burty117 on November 11, 2009 8:34 AM | I wonder how the 8800GTS handles this?i know soo many people who still use that card, I personally own a GTX260 and I love it! extremely good card considering I got it less than hundred pounds. Nice to see it have a special mention here as its relatively cheap considering the performance of the card. |
| Puiu on November 11, 2009 8:51 AM | burty117 said: 8800GTS is
above 9600GT and below 9800GTX. it should work just fine
with this game at the resolutions that 9600 worked.
I wonder how the 8800GTS handles this?i know soo many people who still use that card, I personally own a GTX260 and I love it! extremely good card considering I got it less than hundred pounds. Nice to see it have a special mention here as its relatively cheap considering the performance of the card. |
| Guest on November 11, 2009 9:09 AM | What a FAIL benchmark. What's the point of doing graphics test when you are running a Core i7 965 @ 3,7Ghz? Seriously it would be better to run the tests with a E8400 or maybe and i7 920. |
| ranger12 on November 11, 2009 9:16 AM | Guest said: Benchmarking
with the i7 965 makes perfect sense. Theyre benchmarking
videocards here not whole systems. They gotta make sure it's
the videocards that are bottlenecking the system not the
CPU.
What a FAIL benchmark. What's the point of doing graphics test when you are running a Core i7 965 @ 3,7Ghz? Seriously it would be better to run the tests with a E8400 or maybe and i7 920. |
| Kibaruk on November 11, 2009 9:55 AM | I still play the most recent games and some on maximum
quality (But low AA filtering) on an ATI 256 mb DDR3
HD2600XT, AMD Athlon x64 5000+ and 2x twin corsairs 1gb ram
667mhz (Which is to be a 2 year old system). With an ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256 mb DDR3, Windows 7 gives my 3D rendering a 6,4 in the windows experience evaluation, what is your score on which video card? |
| Nirkon on November 11, 2009 10:03 AM | Guest said: That's how
ALL the sites do their benchmarking...What a FAIL benchmark. What's the point of doing graphics test when you are running a Core i7 965 @ 3,7Ghz? Seriously it would be better to run the tests with a E8400 or maybe and i7 920. but yeah I somewhat agree that the benchmark should be more about the whole PC and not about JUST the GPUs. I have an HD4850 and a 22" (1680x1050) so here it runs with 4X AA at 60FPS but with 6GB DDR3 and Core I7 at 3.7GHZ... so I'm thinking.. how the heck is it going to run anywhere near that with an E6600 and 2GB DDR2??? But you know what, I'm gonna benchmark it and post it here afterwords for anyone interested. I usually play with 8XAA though, and generally, a 30FPS average is good enough for me. |
| Guest on November 11, 2009 11:41 AM | Hello ! Nvidia 7600 is ok ? What do you think ? |
| burty117 on November 11, 2009 11:57 AM | hey hey! I used to use the 7600! its impressive for its size and age i'll give ya that! and yes, it won't run it in full res without lag and you will need to keep anti-alising off but appart from that, you could run it happily |
| SNGX1275 on November 11, 2009 12:08 PM | What a FAIL benchmark. No.
Having system specs really high is the best way to guarantee
you are card limited in performance and not system limited.
Since this is benchmarking the video cards with this game it
is the ideal way to do it.
What's the point of doing graphics test when you are running a Core i7 965 @ 3,7Ghz? Seriously it would be better to run the tests with a E8400 or maybe and i7 920. |
| Guest on November 11, 2009 12:11 PM | Am I the only one that doesn't understand why they benchmarked an entire set of dx10 cards in dx9?? |
| camuss15 on November 11, 2009 12:24 PM | I must have low standards, but I have a 22' monitor running
at 1680x1050 with a 9600GT, and I think that 45 fps at max
settings with 4xx AA on a game that came out this week is
damn good... For a sub $100 video card. I know that I am probably going to average like 25-30 fps with my E4300 and 2 gigs of ram though... |
| Guest on November 11, 2009 12:45 PM | Is that gtx260 the 216 or 192 cores version? Or is the difference between them negligible? |
| yukka on November 11, 2009 1:15 PM | All the benchmark charts for AA/AF enabled show AA at 4x and AF at zero which is a bit confusing - did you test with anisotropic filtering off but antialiasing on full? |
| Guest on November 11, 2009 1:36 PM | i'm using 5870, i benchmarked the game in Windows XP and Windows 7 64 bit, the result was that i got at least 25% more frames in Xp than in 7, ATI should work on that in their next driver. |
| Guest on November 11, 2009 1:40 PM | I say again, why no dx10 benchies??? |
| [-Steve-] on November 11, 2009 4:34 PM | Too bad you left the Ati XT2600HD out
=( Given the range of graphics cards included you
can work out the performance of pretty much any graphics
card.I'm still in love of that video card hehe I'm wondering, would
you make a comparison just for gigs of the old video cards
vs the new ones? =) Anything slower than the GeForce
9600 GT or Radeon HD 3850 is going to struggle using maximum
in-game quality settings based on what we
saw.What a FAIL
benchmark. What a FAIL
post, please take a time out to educate yourself before
making the mistake of sharing your
thoughts.What's the point of doing graphics test when you are running a Core i7 965 @ 3,7Ghz? Seriously it would be better to run the tests with a E8400 or maybe and i7 920. Am I the only one
that doesn't understand why they benchmarked an entire set
of dx10 cards in dx9?? When they make a DX10 version
of the game I promise we will test it for you
 I say again, why no dx10
benchies??? Again, the game is still only
DX9…Is that gtx260 the
216 or 192 cores version? Or is the difference between them
negligible? We only use the 216-SPU version these
days but the performance difference is
minimal.All the benchmark
charts for AA/AF enabled show AA at 4x and AF at zero which
is a bit confusing - did you test with anisotropic filtering
off but antialiasing on full? That is 100% correct,
there is no in-game setting for AF, only AA. At this stage
we did not want to force these settings in the drive panels
as it can skew the results.i'm
using 5870, i benchmarked the game in Windows XP and Windows
7 64 bit, the result was that i got at least 25% more frames
in Xp than in 7, ATI should work on that in their next
driver. I never noticed that but it is interesting,
having said that the 5870 still kicks some serious ****.
Also you weren’t testing DX9 in XP and DX10/10.1 in 7
were you?
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| klepto12 on November 11, 2009 6:02 PM | i absolutely love this game and it runs full tilt on my
current system which makes me happy 
|
| Guest on November 11, 2009 6:53 PM | The message of that this Performance Test test gives is somewhat skewed because it doesn't take into account CPU scaling. I am running a GTX 295 on a E8400 @3.7GHz and am getting an average of only 70fps (1920x1200 @4x AA) at the same Bridge Level in this test. Nowhere near the 124fps in the Techspot benchmark. So yeah, this article is somewhat useful but doesn't paint a full picture at all at giving a reasonable expectation of performance on lower class CPU's as some graphic cards scale better than others. |
| [-Steve-] on November 11, 2009 7:05 PM | I would make sure you are using the latest drivers. This
game is not CPU limited, we did test the CPU scaling side of
things but there was little difference between a Core i7
processor and a Core 2 Duo processor. Having said that if anything the results are not skewed, your system is imbalanced. So what you are suggesting is that we assume that everyone with a high-end graphics card uses an affordable dual-core CPU and limit the performance of the really fast cards so they perform more like mainstream cards? These graphics card articles are not about how “your” system performs. They are about how certain graphics cards perform and if we wanted to skew the results we would use a lower powered CPU. |
| Guest on November 11, 2009 7:59 PM | "These graphics card articles are not about how “your”
system performs." Huh? In the article you clearly state:
"Needless to say, this should give you a perfect picture of how your current or prospective system will perform in Modern Warfare 2" But how is my system imbalanced? What determines a balanced system? CPU, RAM, and GPU. Cpu is E8400 @ 3.7Ghz, Gpu is GTX 295 and Ram is DDR2 4GB. How is that imbalanced? That sounds pretty balanced to me. Building a comp isn't rocket science. Other benchmarks fall right in line with it. If the game is not CPU limited, why point your finger at my lesser dual-core CPU? I never said your article was intentionally skewed. My complaint is that it doesn't tell the full story. While you say it does, I am not in a position to test that statement. But if what what you say is true, why not at least provide the evidence for comparison sake in the article? Or at least mention it. Without it, it gives the casual observer a false impression of expected performance. |
| [-Steve-] on November 11, 2009 8:06 PM | Honestly I have no idea why your system is performing so
poorly and I suggest that you check your drivers if you have
not already done so. Your performance is similar to that of our GeForce GTX 275 which leads me to believe that for whatever reason SLI is not working in Modern Warfare 2 for you. Having no idea how your system is set up I cannot determine if this is a matter of the processors being different or a problem with the graphics card or some other piece of hardware. On a side note if the title of the article was “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 System Performance” rather than “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Graphics Performance” then yes I would agree with everything you have said. |
