Company of Heroes

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.

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 247

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 248


NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 249

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 250

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 251

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 252

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 253

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 254

Wow, talk about some improvements here!  The GTX 280 simply walks away with this win and even at 1600×1200 the results are impressive.  It is 42% faster than the 9800 GX2, 56% faster than the 9800 GTX and 76% faster than the HD 3870 X2 at 1920×1200!

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NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 256

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 257

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 258

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 259

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 260

The Company of Heroes test points out some additional benefits of the GTX 260 compared to other three cards it’s compared against.  It easily outperforms the HD 3870 X2 as well as the 9800 GX2 in all resolutions.

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NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 262

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 263

NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 264

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NVIDIA GT200 Revealed - GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Review - Graphics Cards 266

Once again the GTX 280 SLI scales fairly well at the top resolution: 2560×1600 tests see a 70% increase in the average frame rate with a 100% boost in the minimum!

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