In a recent article, AnandTech took a very close look at graphics card performance in Battlefield 2. The article looks at both ATI and Nvidia cards and how both fair out in terms of playing the game at the highest possible resolutions. It does appear that Nvidia has slightly taken the lead, some problems with ATI cards and the higher res modes, perhaps this is a driver issue that ATI can work around? After hearing feedback on the article, we went back and ran tests on the GeForce 6800 GT and the Radeon X800 XL in order to fill in an upper midrange price gap. Note that there are no tests for the X800 XL at 2048x1536 due to difficulties getting the card to run properly at this resolution (it would only render the upper left 1600x1200 of the screen). Though we have alluded to it before, we would like to note that while we have had zero issues running NVIDIA cards at very high resolutions, it has been a constant struggle to get ATI cards to properly render resolutions above 1600x1200 on analog monitors.
As far as performance of this update goes, the X800 XL slightly trails the 6800 GT without AA enabled, but performs much better after all the options are turned up.
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