The battle of the HTPC cards, Galaxy’s GT 520 vs. HD 6450 (GDDR5 vs. GDDR3)

Lost Planet 2

Lost Planet 2 is the sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition and is also made by Capcom. The events take place ten years after the first game and on the same, now thawed, EDN III. The PC version was released on October 12, 2010 and it runs on the MT-Framework 2.0 engine; an updated version of the engine used in several Capcom games. Campaign mode can have up to 4 players working together over the Internet. Lost Planet 2 allows players to create and customize their own characters which will allow them to unlock more things after leveling up and downloading content.

We are using the retail game’s built-in benchmark in DX11 with maximum settings. As the game is quite demanding, we first test at 1680×1050 resolution with no AA and high details.

Let’s now test at 1280×720 and with low details and no AA.

Our settings are still too demanding although the GT 520 is much faster than either version of the HD 6450 although we would not play this game in DX11 with our target cards.