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Starcraft II Wings of Liberty GPU graphics performance

Our test setup:

Intel Core i7 965 @ 3750 MHz
eVGA X58 Classified
6144 MB (3x 2048 MB) DDR3 Corsair @ 1500 MHz
Power Supply Unit 1200 Watt BFG
Monitor Dell 3007WFP - up to 2560x1600
Windows 7 RTM 64-bit (fully patched up)
DirectX 9/10/11 latest End User Runtime
ATI Catalyst 10.6
NVIDIA GeForce 258.96 WHQL

The cards tested:

GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB
GeForce GTX 260 SP216 896MB
GeForce GTX 285 1792MB
GeForce GTX 460 1024MB
GeForce GTX 460 768MB
GeForce GTX 470 1280MB
GeForce GTX 480 1536MB

Radeon HD 4770 512MB
Radeon HD 4870 1024MB
Radeon HD 5770 1024MB
Radeon HD 5830 1024MB
Radeon HD 5850 1024MB
Radeon HD 5870 1024MB

Final words

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty seems to be a huge title with a lot of potential. We loved playing the beta and can't wait for the final product.

We do wish it would have used a next-gen DX11 engine and some more eye-candy, but none the less it still is a very attractive game to observe alright. Performance wise if you stick to 0xAA then any reasonable graphics card will do just fine. Value for money wise if you are in the market right now then you should hunt down a Radeon HD 5770, 5830 or GeForce GTX 460 768 / 1024MB. We hope that ATI will update their drivers soon so that AA can be tested on their end as well.

Izvor:guru3d