VGA performance: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (DX9)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2 is set five years on from COD4 and brings a new villain into town: Vladimir Makarov. All the trouble start when Makarov frames the US for a terrorist attack on a Russian airport (yes, the infamous airport level). The rest of the story follows the same intertwined British and US mission format as before, and the missions are all incredible set-pieces that involve storming oil rigs, climbing icy cliffs and, of course, an adrenaline packed snowmobile chase. Visually the 3D engine seems to be the same as the COD4 one, it's tweaked though and nearly abused to push out the very best of its capability. The result is a very decent looking game really, smoke, fog, sun, vegetation detailed texturing of objects building and characters.
Above the GTX 470 vs. R5850 again, now that looks a little weird I know, it's just the dynamic sometimes of one card being stronger in certain areas and slower in others. The cards are very close to each other.
Our selected image quality settings are the most complex you can set in-game. 4xAA, maxed out anisotropic filtering, the best textures, everything is enabled to its maximum capability. Any decent graphics card can run the game, it's that simple. There's no need to give in to lower quality settings.
Image Quality setting:
- 4x Anti-Aliasing
- 16x Anisotropic Filtering
- All settings maxed out
But let's check out the GTX 480 performance.
The GTX 480 on its end takes a clear lead over the R5870, and we'll see this a lot, outside the highest resolutions say up-to 1920x1200, performance is much better for the GTX 480.
Above you can see a performance chart as recently introduced in all our new graphics card reviews. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 however is a new title and we still need to add the results from a handful of GeForce graphics cards for comparison. Anyway, you get the idea. Top notch performance.
