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EVGA, Palit and XFX GeForce 9600 GT Video Card Review

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512MB GDDR3 Graphics Cards
Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Call of Duty 4

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision for Xbox 360 , Playstation 3 and PC. It is the fourth installment in the Call of Duty video game series. It was announced on April 25, 2007 and was released on November 6, 2007 in North America. The single player game can be completed in well under seven hours, but the graphics are awesome.  Click the image below to see Call of Duty 4 at 1920x1200 resolution with 4x AA enabled on the ATI Radeon HD 3870 graphics card.

Call of Duty 4 Benchmarking

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare runs on a proprietary graphics engine, and has features such as true world-dynamic lighting, HDR lighting effects, dynamic shadows and depth-of-field. "Bullet Penetration" is calculated by the engine, taking into account things such as surface type and entity thickness. Certain objects, such as cars, and some buildings are destructible. This makes distinguishing cover from concealment important, as meager protection such as wooden fences, thin walls and such no longer provide sufficient protection. The bullet's speed and stopping power are decreased after penetrating an object, and this decrease is calculated realistically depending on the thickness and surface of the object penetrated. The game also makes use of a physics engine, which was not implemented in previous Call of Duty titles for the PC. Death Animations are a combination of pre-set animations and ragdoll physics. Some mistook the game's graphics to be DirectX 10 based, but it is stated that the graphics use DirectX 9.

Call of Duty 4 v1.2 Benchmark Results

Results: Call of Duty 4 is still one of the top 10 best selling games in America this month and it is pretty tough on the latest and greatest graphics cards. The GeForce 8800 GT 512MB and the GeFOrce 9600 GT 512MB scored right about the same in our FRAPS benchmarking results, which wasn't expected.

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Review Index
Page 1 - GeForce 9 Series Cards Arrive
Page 2 - EVGA e-GeForce 9600 GT SSC
Page 3 - Palit 9600 GT Sonic
Page 4 - XFX GeForce 9600 GT (PV-T94P-YDF)
Page 5 - The Test System
Page 6 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Page 7 - Company of Heroes
Page 8 - World in Conflict
Page 9 - BioShock
Page 10 - Crysis
Page 11 - Call of Duty 4
Page 12 - 3DMark 2006
Page 13 - Lightsmark 2007
Page 14 - Temperatures
Page 15 - Power Consumption
Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions