R680 Has Landed: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

Name: R680 Has Landed: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 - Page 6
Brand: R680

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, January 28, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT

Performance Comparisons with Company of Heroes

Details: www.companyofheroesgame.com

Company of Heroes

Relic Entertainment's World War II era real-time strategy game Company of Heroes was originally released as a DirectX 9 title for Windows. But recent upates to the game have incorporated support for new DirectX 10 features that improve image quality and enhance the game's finer graphical details. The game features a built-in performance test which which we used to attain the results below. Our Company of Heroes tests were run at resolutions of 1,280 x 1,024, 1,600 x 1,200 and 1920 x 1200 with 4X anti-aliasing and all of the game's image-quality related options set to their maximum values.

The Radeon HD 3870 X2 performed very well in the DirectX 10 Company of Heroes benchmark, but it couldn't quite keep pace with NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTX. It was marginally faster then the dual-card CrossFire setup, and the other single-card setups, however. And perhaps with better CrossFire scaling in this game it may be able to catch the GTX.

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com