The Games of Christmas '08: GPU Performance Part 1

Call of Duty: World at War GPU Performance

To benchmark this game, we played through 10 minutes of the second mission (Little Resistance) starting from right after the player calls in the rocket strike on the enemy positions on the beach. This was benchmarked using FRAPS.

1680 X 1050



2560 X 1600


We may all remember that in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the ATI cards reined supreme but this iteration of the CoD series sees the flip side of the coin. Nvidia cards dominate in every price / performance category even though the HD 4870 X2 is able to be the lone ace up the sleeve of ATI. Granted, at anything other than the highest resolution, even the ATI cards are able to deliver acceptable framerates but for this game, Nvidia seems to have the right stuff more often than not.