Written by Gradius |
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 21:18
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StarCraft II
LegionHardware has recently benchmarked the
StarCraft II beta for most graphics cards, as well as showing how the game scales on Core i7 CPUs.
StarCraft II is not nearly as demanding as I imagined it might have been, and despite looking quite impressive, it was very playable on mid-range graphics cards using maximum in-game quality settings at extreme resolutions such as 2560x1600. Although we have only given you a preview of the performance that is to be expected from StarCraft II by using a beta copy, this should give gamers a good idea of how their gaming system will handle this new title.
At this stage we are not going to discuss the ATI vs. Nvidia comparison in detail, as we feel the drivers are not quite up to speed, particularly on ATI’s behalf. Still, the Radeon HD 5870 was the fastest single GPU graphics card available when testing with StarCraft II, while the GeForce GTX 285 was able to match the Radeon HD 5850.
The GeForce GTX 260 was on the other hand much faster than the Radeon HD 4870, and it was a similar case when comparing the GeForce GTX 275 to the Radeon HD 4890. The Radeon HD 4850 was slightly slower than the GeForce 9800 GT, while the Radeon HD 5670 was also slightly slower than the GeForce 9600 GT.
The article includes many charts and figures of all the latest hardware, showing StarCraft fans just what hardware they need to run the game well. Read the rest here.
Source:
LegionHardware - StarCraft II Wings of Liberty Beta Performance
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