MSI Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Review

Lost Planet 2

Lost Planet 2 is a game that uses a lot of DirectX 11 features, like tessellation (to round out the edges of polygonal models), displacement maps (added to the tessellated mesh to add fine grain details), DirectCompute soft body simulation (to introduce more realism in the “boss” monsters), and DirectCompute wave simulation (to introduce more realism in the physics calculations in water surfaces; when you move or when gunshots and explosions hit the water, it moves accordingly). We reviewed the video cards using Lost Planet 2 internal benchmarking features, choosing the “Benchmark A” (we know that “Benchmark B” is the one recommended
for reviewing video cards, however, at least with us, results were inconsistent). We set graphics at “medium,” anti-aliasing at “2x” and DX11 at “full.” The results below are the number of frames per second generated by each video card.

MSI Radeon HD 6870

Lost Planet 2 1680×1050 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 63.10 4%
Radeon HD 6870 60.60  
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 55.30 -9%
GeForce GTX 465 54.80 -10%
Radeon HD 6850 52.90 -13%
Radeon HD 5850 50.90 -16%
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 47.70 -21%

MSI Radeon HD 6870

Lost Planet 2 1920×1200 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 55.00 9%
Radeon HD 6870 50.40  
Radeon HD 5850 47.10 -7%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 46.30 -8%
GeForce GTX 465 42.60 -15%
Radeon HD 6850 40.20 -20%
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 39.40 -22%

MSI Radeon HD 6870

Lost Planet 2 2560×1600 Difference
Radeon HD 5870 39.80 8%
Radeon HD 6870 36.90  
Radeon HD 5850 31.80 -14%
Radeon HD 6850 29.60 -20%
GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) 28.90 -22%
GeForce GTX 465 27.60 -25%
GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) 24.80 -33%

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