11 - Game performance: Call of Duty 4

Gaming: Call of Duty 4

Activision recently released Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the next installment in the popular war game series. Moving away from the World War II setting, Modern Warfare instead centers around a conflict involving Russia and the Middle East. And hey, you even get to die ... and then continue the game in the past.

We kick-off with Call of Duty 4; before we dive into the benchmarks a little explanation.

Let's have a look and suit up in our best cloaking gear for COD4. For this benchmark we use disguise ourselves in the Ghillie suit, load up ACT II - All Ghillied up. Not just for the great gameplay, but also the intense and dense graphics utilized are breathtaking. Massive high-quality texturing, shaders and a serious amount of shadows, fog and debris are applied in this level to mask and hide as best as you can.

Both the BFG and NV reference card perform 100% the same, so I decided to make some space in the chart and merge the results.

What you'll see a lot with the latest G92 based products is that they have been optimized a little, this always shows in the lower resolutions, apparently. As you can see the GeForce 9800 GX2 pretty much is on par with two 8800 GTX cards setup in SLI.

What you constantly need to do though is compare the 9800 GX2 with the 8800 Ultra, that is the product it'll be replacing. Suffice to say, but I'll do it anyway - nice !

Image Quality setting:

• 4x Anti Aliasing
• 16x anisotropic filtering
• All settings maxed out

The level where we measure and the image quality settings used