GeForce GTX260+ vs Radeon 4850 Part 1: Performance

Direct3D (Classic)

These benchmarks cover even older Direct3D games. In fact these games are so old it’s pointless to benchmark them at 4xAA as they’re too CPU limited. Also running TrAA/AAA doesn’t significantly impact the benchmarks’ scores so there’s no reason to not enable it. Even at the tested settings the titles are still quite CPU limited but it’ll be interesting to see if we can detect any performance gain.

Despite being relatively CPU limited with these lightweight titles, the 260+ still manages to post a respectable 19.96% performance gain overall with my E6850 running at 3 GHz.