XFX GeForce 6800 GS Review – NVIDIA’s Mid-Range Monster

Battlefield 2

Battlefield 2 (Direct X)

Battlefield 2 is one of the first games to come along in quite a while that turned out to really push the current and even following generation gaming hardware.  Having the privelege of being the first game that might need 2 GB of memory is either a positive or negative, depending on your viewpoint.  Here are our IQ settings used:

Our map was the Strike At Karkand that turns out to be one of the most demanding in the retail package in terms of land layout, smoke and other shader effects. 

NVIDIA again walks away with this performance benchmark as the 6800 GS walks all over the X1600 XT with a performance edge of 75% with 4xAA enabled.  The 6800 GS SLI setup also sees a fantastic 66% improvement over the single card.