Very High settings

Notes

Under the greater demands of ARMA II’s Very High graphics settings, the GeForce GTX 275 and 285 boards put up a stronger showing in comparison to the Radeon 4890. Whereas the 4890 generally outperformed the GTX 275 under the demo’s high graphics settings, the opposite is the case under very high.

The very high graphics settings come with a real performance hit too. GTX 285 frame rates are 17% slower at 1920x1200 under very high. The GTX 275 is 15% slower.

The Radeon 4890 takes the biggest hit though – 22% (from 41 fps to 32 fps).

The Radeon 4870 now runs neck-and-neck with the GeForce GTX 260. Under the game’s high settings the card maintained a decisive advantage. Now it only manages to keep up with NVIDIA’s original GeForce GTX 260 with 192 shaders.

ARMA II doesn’t just push GPUs to their knees though. It’s also pretty CPU-intensive. In fact, you may be shocked to see how similar all the cards perform against one another when the game is paired with Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q8400.