World in Conflict DX9

This is one stunning game. World in Conflict has provided us with some of my most memorable gaming experiences since the first Homeworld game was released and it has not stopped wowing me. In its DX9 form it provides eye-popping visuals and pushes most modern GPUs to their limits. However, in DX10 mode this game will cause nearly every graphics card to beg for mercy.

For this test we used the in-game benchmarking tool.

1280 x 1024



1600 x 1200




2560 x 1600



It seems that World in Conflict is extremely dependant on high amounts of video memory when AA is turned on. Thus, the 8800GTX surges past the 9800GTX whenever the eye candy is turned up. Other than that, the 9800GTX provides extremely good performance (in many cases almost EXACTLY 10% better than the 8800GTS 512MB) up to the highest resolution but falters in the last test with AA turned on.