Sapphire HD3870 512MB TOXIC Edition 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.

PLEASE NOTE WE HAVE COMPLETELY CHANGED OUR CoH TESTING. We are now using a single mission (Authie: Boudica's Boys from the British Campaign) since after extensive testing we came to the realization that the in-game benchmark is highly inaccurate and does not reflect in-game performance. Thus, we have taked the Authie mission since it holds a bit of everything the game has to offer: vehicle battles, thundering arty barrages and house-to-house fighting. Record framerates using FRAPS up until the 30 minute mark of the mission.

Please note that there seems to be some issues with the new WHQL drivers and the 8800GTS 512MB at low resolutions in DX10.




Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts DX10


Overall, the Sapphire HD3870 does very well in Company of Heroes by delivering incredibly playable framerates all the way up to the maximum resolution under DX9. However, when DX10 is enabled the card’s performance plummets which seems par for the course with ATI cards and DX10. All in all, we were quite impressed with the TOXIC in this game.