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Comparative Performance Testing Comparative Performance TestingTo some of you this section may seem to be a bit redundant and it may be just that. However, what we are trying to accomplish here is to give you a quick and easy visual representation of performance across multiple settings without using dozens of charts. In addition, these following graphs can give a user clearer insight about a product’s AA and resolution scaling with just a quick glance. Trust us; there are several interesting and eye-opening charts here that you will want to see. Aliens Versus Predator  The two GTX 460 cards show consistent performance across all resolutions and AA settings in AvP but we can see the 768MB card starting to struggle a bit when the image quality is increased at higher resolutions. The HD 5830 on the other hand is the picture of inconsistency here with absolutely horrible anti aliasing scaling. Battlefield: Bad Company 2  Here we see the two GTX 460 cards doing well at 1680 x 1050 but the GTX 465 is better able to leverage its rendering horsepower above that. Once again the HD 5830 and GTX 460 768MB run neck and neck until the ATI card is able to overtake its rival when playing on a 30” screen. Even the GTX 460 1GB sees a huge performance drop-off above 1920 x 1200. DIRT 2  DiRT 2 repeats what we saw in the previous two graphs but this time things are more clearly defined. The GTX 460 768MB seems to hit its peak performance at 1920 x 1200 without AA which is then followed by a significant hit when anti aliasing is enabled. The GTX 460 1GB on the other hand holds things together until it’s asked to render at 2560 x 1600 where it takes a meteoric plunge. | ||||
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