System Setup

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770

EVGA nForce 790i Ultra SLI motherboard (for GeForce cards)
ASUS P5E3 Premium WiFi AP Edition (for Radeon cards)
4GB OCZ DDR3 @ 1333MHz

GeForce GTX 280
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 8800 GT
ForceWare 177.79

AMD Radeon HD 4850
AMD Radeon HD 4870
Catalyst 7.7

300GB Western Digital Caviar SE

Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit w/Service Pack 1

Notes

We’ve only had NVIDIA’s PhysX driver for a handful of days, so unfortunately we’ll have to resort to testing one common resolution among all the cards. Normally we like to include a couple of resolutions in our benchmarks. We chose a mixture of 1280x1024 (the only resolution supported in Nurien) and 1600x1200. As you can imagine, it takes some time for some of the results with slower hardware to generate, so we also kept the AA in check, but we did test the game’s with their highest settings.