World in Conflict

World In Conflict Performance 1600x1200x32
Card	Min FPS	Max FPS
GeForce 8800 Ultra DX10	17	79
GeForce 8800 Ultra DX9	19	85
GeForce 8800 GTX SLI DX10	17	97
GeForce 8800 GTX SLI DX9	16	86
GeForce 8800 GTX DX10	17	70
GeForce 8800 GTX DX9	16	81
GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB SLI DX10	13	63
GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB SLI DX9	13	78
GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB DX10	11	59
GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB DX9	12	72
GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB SLI DX10	9	57
GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB SLI DX9	16	72
GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB DX10	8	44
GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB DX9	13	74
Radeon HD 2900 XT CrossFire DX10	2	12
Radeon HD 2900 XT CrossFire DX9
Radeon HD 2900 XT DX10	5	13
Radeon HD 2900 XT DX9	15	50
Diamond 2900 XT 1GB DX10	4	14
Diamond 2900 XT 1GB DX9	16	51

Notes

Since the open beta in August Massive has been working hard on improving the performance of the DX10 code path and it shows. DX9 still runs a little faster than DX10 though. We should mention that this game is extremely CPU-bound, even with a Core 2 Extreme X6800, and as such the SLI setups don’t scale as well as they did in previous games earlier in this article.

You can also see that while AMD’s DX9 performance is competitive to NVIDIA, DX10 performance is nowhere close to being optimal. Under DX9, the GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB outruns the 2900 XT by 10% at 1600x1200. CrossFire doesn’t work in this game either.

The GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB SLI config performs similarly to what we saw with CoH.