BFG 9800GTX 512MB Review

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts DX9

Company of Heroes has always been one of our favorite RTS games with visceral firefights and a gripping campaign. Opposing Fronts is the expansion to this great game and it introduces players to British campaign to liberate France from German occupation in the weeks and months following D-Day.

In this test we ran the in-game benchmarking program and pegged all the graphics settings to their highest levels. This was done for both DX9 and DX10 modes and the framerates were averaged after 4 runs.



It looks like in DX9 mode this card is the fastest Nvidia single GPU solution and it provides playable framerates right up to the highest resolution. It isn’t quite able to outmuscle the HD3870X2 but it comes pretty damn close on a number of occasions.


Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts DX10



In these tests it once again looks like the 9800GTX is on-upped by ATI’s more expensive flagship card. That being said, the increased memory speed seems to be paying dividends for this card since it stays ahead of the perennial favorite 8800GTX at 1600x1200 with AA tuned on.