Company of Heroes – HD 3850

Company of Heroes (DirectX 10)


Company of Heroes is another very compute-intense RTS that also has some unique features in it for fans of the genre including a fantastic graphics engine and a real-time physics engine built by Havok.

AMD Radeon HD 3870 and HD 3850 Review - RV670 at 55nm - Graphics Cards 140

AMD Radeon HD 3870 and HD 3850 Review - RV670 at 55nm - Graphics Cards 141


AMD Radeon HD 3870 and HD 3850 Review - RV670 at 55nm - Graphics Cards 142

AMD Radeon HD 3870 and HD 3850 Review - RV670 at 55nm - Graphics Cards 143

AMD Radeon HD 3870 and HD 3850 Review - RV670 at 55nm - Graphics Cards 144

AMD Radeon HD 3870 and HD 3850 Review - RV670 at 55nm - Graphics Cards 145

The latest versions of Company of Heroes have had some performance issues, as you’ll note from our 0, 1 or 2 minimum frame rates. But wow, the average frame rates on the HD 3850 compared to the 8600 GTS and HD 2600 XT are a fantastic improvement. CrossFire performance on the HD 3850 is good at 1600×1200 where the scaling is about 45% but it drops to 15% at 1920×1200.

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