The battle of the HTPC cards, Galaxy’s GT 520 vs. HD 6450 (GDDR5 vs. GDDR3)
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. is an air combat video game developed published by Ubisoft. It was released in United States on March 6, 2009. You have the opportunity to fly 54 aircraft over real world locations and cities in somewhat realistic environments that are created with satellite data. This game is a more of a take on flying than a real simulation and it has received mixed reviews.
The game story takes place during the time of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. H.A.W.X. is set in the year 2014 where private military companies have replaced government-run military in many countries. The player is placed into the cockpit as an elite ex-military pilot who is recruited by one of these corporations to work for them as a mercenary. You later return to the US Air Force with a team as you try to prevent a full scale terrorist attack on the United States which was started by your former employer.
H.A.W.X. runs on DX10.1 faster and with more detail than on the DX10 pathway. Let’s check out H.A.W.X. with our top cards at 1920×1200 with fully maxed out in-game settings and 8xAA:
Here are our results at 1680×1050 resolution with maxed settings and 2xAA:
Let’s drop the resolution to 1280×720 but leave our maxed DX10.1 settings on with 2xAA.
The stock GT 520 Ti sits well ahead of the GT 220 and HIS HD 6450 although all of our cards still can not give playable frame rates. The GDDR5 version of the HD 6450 does not catch the GT 520.