BattleForge: DX10
Up next is BattleForge, Electronic Arts’ free to play online RTS. As far as RTSes go this game can be quite demanding, and this is just at DX10.



Until we get to 2560x1600, the 5850 and the GTX 465 are virtually in a dead-heat. The 5850 always maintains a slight advantage, but not enough to make a practical difference. At 2560 the GTX 465 finally cracks some, and falls behind by 8%. As for the GTX 465 in comparison to the GTX 470, it’s effectively always 20% behind.
Moving on to load temperatures, we can begin to see the price of using a GPU with a higher core voltage. Under Crysis that 2C advantage over the GTX 470 holds, with temperatures peaking at just 91C. This still makes it the 3rd hottest single-GPU card we have tested, tying with the Radeon HD 3870 and coming in 24C hotter than the 5850, a card it underperforms in this game.