BioShock High vs Medium Performance

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Card	Min FPS	Max FPS
GeForce 8600 GTS High	19	41
GeForce 8600 GTS Medium	22	49
GeForce 8600 GT High	16	35
GeForce 8600 GT Medium	19	42
Radeon HD 2600 XT High	13	31
Radeon HD 2600 XT Medium	16	35
Radeon HD 2400 XT High	6	13
Radeon HD 2400 XT Medium	8	15

Notes

Going from high down to medium detail has a profound impact on performance with the cards represented above. The GeForce 8600 GTS sees its performance reduced by up to 15% for instance. The Radeon cards generally see slimmer gains, but we think this is due in part because we conducted these tests under the DX10 path.

We’ve got more performance results with both the high and medium settings (including SLI results and shader model 3.0 cards like the X1950 Pro and X1650 XT) later in this article.