Call of Duty 4

For Call of Duty 4, we max out all the settings we are able. Our benchmark is the cutscene directly before the first mission: flying over the sea in a hellicopter on a rainy night. We used FRAPS to record the data for this test.

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While NVIDIA has been the reigning Call of Duty champion for quite some time, the 4850 really changes things up. The gap between the 9800 GTX and the 4850 gets smaller as resolution increases, but even at 2560x1600 the previously more expensive 9800 GTX loses out.