Need for Speed Carbon delivers the next generation of adrenaline-filled street racing and will challenge players to face the ultimate test of driving skill on treacherous canyon roads.

What starts in the city is settled in the canyons as Need for Speed Carbon immerses you into the world's most dangerous and adrenaline-filled form of street racing. You and your crew must race in an all-out war for the city, risking everything to take over your rivals' neighbourhoods one block at a time. As the police turn up the heat, the battle ultimately shifts to Carbon Canyon, where territories and reputations can be lost on every perilous curve.

Lets race...

Need for Speed Carbon delivers the next generation of customization giving you the power to design and tweak your crew's cars in every way using the ground-breaking new Autosculpt technology. Represent your car class, your crew, and your turf in Need for Speed Carbon, the next revolution in racing games.

In order to benchmark the graphics cards, we created the same two rounds on the same track with the same car. By using FRAPS, we recorded all 2 minutes of driving.

Black and beautiful...

Keep in mind that all test results were done with "Blur Effect" and "Rain" disabled, since enabling them produces a huge performance hit with all cards. In any case, all other detail settings are maxed out. As usual, the AA/AF modes are set from each card's 3D control panel. Without enabling AA/AF, we can see the performance of each card at 1280x1024 resolution.

NFS Carbon is a no-go for Nvidia based cards. It seems as if the driver for the game needs a tune up. The PowerColor X1950Pro provided excellent performance producing 56FPS average, resulting in really fast yet smooth gameplay.

Enabling AA/AF in NFS Carbon is...taxing on all VGA cards, except for the PowerColor X1950Pro. The card maintained its very good performance, even at 16xAF/4xAA (40FPS), while at 16xAF/6xAA it produced 16/35FPS (lowest/average), which makes it quite playable.