VGA performance: Call of Duty 5: World at War (DX9)
Call of Duty 5: World at War
The raid of Makin Island, one of the first levels, starts with you tied to a chair, faced with a smug Japanese general. He puffs cigar smoke in your face, before turning to one of your comrades and shouting appropriately phrased Japanese at him. The scene is set, and trust me, you'll be focused. World at War throws out the rulebook of war to transform WWII combat through a new enemy, new tactics and an uncensored experience of the climatic battles that gripped a generation. As U.S. Marines and Russian soldiers, players will employ new features like cooperative gameplay, and weapons such as the flamethrower in the most chaotic and cinematically intense experience to date.
Call of Duty 5: World at War uses the exact same 3D engine as Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It does have some new graphics tweaks. We have chosen the level most badass on the GPU, which boils down to the Blood and Iron Tank level.
Our image quality settings are the most complex you can set in-game. 4x AA, maxed out anisotropic filtering, the best quality textures, everything is enabled to it's maximum capability. I do like to note that we did spot a petit AA quality difference between the Radeon series 4000 and GeForce 9000 series, as explained and shown prior to these benchmark sessions.
Any decent graphics card can run the game, it's that simple. There's no need to give in to lower quality settings.
Image Quality setting:
- 4x Anti Aliasing
- 16x Anisotropic Filtering
- All settings maxed out
Again extremely similar behavior, the RV740 surpasses a 4830 and crawls close (~10%) to the 4850. As a result you can again play this game up to 1920x1200 (with our applied image quality settings).
See, the nice things about a "single card chart" (I should register that as a brand - sounds so funky) is that you can flawlessly observe what performance level you get returned (on average) versus monitor resolutions. And that is nothing short from amazing performance, up-to 1920x1200.
