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Review: ATI rolls out Catalyst 9.3 with official Windows 7 support: HEXUS benchmarks high-end graphics

by Tarinder Sandhu on 18 March 2009, 05:00

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), XFX (HKG:1079), BFG Technologies

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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty 4: MW (high-end) 1,680x1,050 4xAA 16xAF
BFG GeForce GTX 295XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 *Win7*XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 *Win7*
145.4142.23145.3142.3


Call of Duty 4: MW (high-end) 1,920x1,200 4xAA 16xAF
BFG GeForce GTX 295XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 *Win7*XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 *Win7*
128.43120.8127.65122


Call of Duty 4: MW (high-end) 2,560x1,600 4xAA 16xAF
BFG GeForce GTX 295XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 *Win7*XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 *Win7*
91.4380.790.581


Graphics cards/performance difference Win7 vs. Vista XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 2,048MB BFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
1,680x1,050  0.07
-0.06
1,920x1,200 1
-0.52
2,560x1,600 0.37
-0.95

There's really not a lot in it between Vista and 7 in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on both cards, and the differentiation is well within the standard deviation of the test.