Radeon HD 3870 X2 Round-Up: Asus, HIS

Name: Radeon HD 3870 X2 Round-Up: Asus, HIS - Page 5
Brand: Radeon

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, February 25, 2008, 12:00 PM 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 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP's increased GPU and memory clock speeds gave it a small edge in the Company of Heroes DX10 benchmark. At the lower resolutions, all of the Radeon HD 3870 X2 cards performed similarly, but once the resolution was increased the EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP was able to pull ahead by a couple of frames per second.

Tags: Asus, Radeon, HD, X2, round-up, HIS, Radeon HD

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