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.

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Here's a nice video of Modern Warfare 2 on, gtx 295 , i7 920

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4t0XmrgWi0

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)

Too bad you left the Ati XT2600HD out =(

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? =)

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.

8800GTS is above 9600GT and below 9800GTX. it should work just fine with this game at the resolutions that 9600 worked.

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.

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.

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?

That's how ALL the sites do their benchmarking...

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.

Hello ! Nvidia 7600 is ok ? What do you think ?

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

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.

Am I the only one that doesn't understand why they benchmarked an entire set of dx10 cards in dx9??

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...

Is that gtx260 the 216 or 192 cores version? Or is the difference between them negligible?

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?

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 say again, why no dx10 benchies???