12 - Colin McRae 05

For all you racing fans out there, this test is for you and will represent the Racing game category in our benchmarks.

From the graphics point of view the first thing you'll notice in the game, is the excellent amount of detail on your racing car. High resolution textures on the car and lighting make it quite impressive. All the eye candy, such as the sun reflection in the virtual camera are still the same as the older CM versions but motion blur has been added when your car hits something hard which will happen most often if you're new to the racing simulation world.

To measure performance on the game, we used fraps to get the average fps of the whole 8th stage of UK which is actually the only stage you get to play on the demo.

In this game, the Asus Extreme N6600GT seems to be less affected by higher resolution settings. Even though the X700 can produce more fps under 800x600 and 1024x768, it falls behind the Nvidia card's performance.

Running the game with quality settings, the results change once again and the 6600GT's edge of running better under high resolutions is lost. The HIS X700 pro offers more acceptable framerates and generally greater overall performance in this game.