- Assassins Creed (DirectX 10)

Assassins Creed is a new game from Ubisoft that supports the DirectX 10.1 extensions. The graphics are highly demanding, especially with all details maxed out. We tested the graphic cards at 1920x1200 resolution only, since the game has very high frame rates at lower resolutions. Using FRAPS we recorded the same fight scene and the game results are presented below.

We can see that all tested cards have an almost similar performance. There is a 4FPS performance difference between the Asus 9600GT Silent and Gainward 9600GT 1024GS.

- Half Life 2 Episode 2 (DirectX 9)

Half Life 2 is a first person shooter game that everybody has played and loved. The game at Episode 2 has several image quality improvements and hopefully all tested cards will perform very well. By enabling 4xAA and 16AF we have a visual improvement.

The Gainward 9600GT 1024 GS gave the highest frame rates at all tested resolutions.