GeForce GT 430 1024MB review

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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 and nearly abused to push out the very best of it's capability. The result is a very decent looking game really, smoke, fog, sun, vegetation detailed texturing of objects, buildings and characters. 

Our image quality settings selected are the most complex you can set in-game. 4x AA, maxed out anisotropic filtering, the best textures, everything is enabled to it's 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:

  • Level Contingency
  • 4x Anti-Aliasing
  • 16x Anisotropic Filtering
  • All settings maxed out

We'll do two charts per test session / game today. Above, the GeForce GT 430 1024MB, then the reference Radeon HD 5570 and the Radeon HD 5670.

As you can see, all cards can play this game with 4xAA up-to a monitor resolution of 2560x1600 perfectly fine. And that's with every possible in-game quality setting maxed out for the best image quality. We were a little shocked to see the GT 430 performing at the level of the 5570 to be honest. We expected at the very least a little more.

And as you are used to, a performance chart that was recently introduced in all our graphics card reviews. Dark orange is the card tested today. Price wise the GT 430 will cost roughly 75 EUR, similar to the Radeon 5670. So game performance simply does not look good at all. But let's reserve judgments for later and throw some more game titles at it.

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