Wolfenstein

Finally among our benchmark suite we have Wolfenstein, the most recent game to be released using the id Software Tech 4 engine. All things considered it’s not a very graphically intensive game, but at this point it’s the most recent OpenGL title available. It’s more than likely the entire OpenGL landscape will be thrown upside-down once id releases Rage later this year.

Wolfenstein is quite easy to run, and as a result even at 1920 the GTX 550 nearly breaks 60fps. It’s also memory bandwidth limited to a degree, which is why the GTX 550 gains 24% on the GTS 450 and only underperforms the GTX 460 768MB by 13%.

AMD’s edge in OpenGL performance does keep it at bay though. The 5770 does fall by 8%, but the 6850 enjoys a lead just shy of 20%. Not that it’s likely to make a huge difference in this game.

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  • vedye - Thursday, March 17, 2011 - link

    Thanks for pointing that out!! But the author will not respond to you. Anantech is already proven pro-Nvidia. If I were them, I would ignore ur post as well. Just keep pretending.
  • Demon-Xanth - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link

    From the consumer standpoint, why would I get a 550 over a 460? I read through this and can't come up with a single reason.
  • Gami - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link

    there's no point in getting it.. they need to eliminate the stock of the 400 series first, from all outlets, so that this thing would actually have a chance to be even thought of being bought.
  • Taft12 - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link

    Soon that reason will be "the GTX 460 768MB is not available", but that is not yet true, and indeed there is no reason to buy this card.
  • qwertymac93 - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link

    how did they get 1GB of memory with a 192-bit bus? Are you sure its not 768MB?
  • Demon-Xanth - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link

    There's a whole page on that. Plus many comments on other pages.
  • z3nny - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link

    Yeah, RTFA.
  • Lolimaster - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link

    So after near 1.5years HD5770 is the better buy for mid value customers. Right now in many places HD6850 costs less than the 460 1GB and performs better (even more with the new 11.4pre and future (mejolnir "driver" updates)
  • qwertymac93 - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link

    never mind, read the next page... And now i wish you guys had an edit function...
  • z3nny - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link

    It would have helped if you RTFA first before posting like a fool.

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