Performance in First-Person 3D Shooters

Battlefield 2142

The MSI RX2600XT is faster than the reference card by 8-10% depending on the resolution. However, this performance growth is insufficient to catch up with the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT in the playable resolutions whereas in the resolutions above 1280x1024 pixels this growth is unimportant due to a too low speed.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

This game has a speed limiter set at 30fps – that’s the rate at which the physical model is being updated on the server. The only mainstream graphics card to achieve this level is the GeForce 8600 GTS. The game engine doesn’t need a high computing capacity from the graphics card, but it favors Nvidia’s GeForce 6/7/8 architectures with their UltraShadow technology. The MSI RX2600XT Diamond 512 has a very small advantage over the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4 in this test. It is less than 5%.