ATI HD4870 & HD4850 Crossfire Performance Review

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


World in Conflict is a very, very CPU limited game in DX9 mode and that can be seen here in literally every test until we hit 2560 x 1600 resolution. Then the Crossfire setups can begin to stretch their legs and begin pulling away from the competition.