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Call Of Duty: Black Ops II

AMD Radeon HD 8790M: Next-Gen Mobile Mainstream Graphics Preview
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II represents a revolution in PC graphics...said nobody, ever. Nevertheless, we had a lot of fun running and gunning through the campaign when it first launched, and imagine many folks continue tearing it up in the multi-player component today.

Fortunately, it looks like an older, mature graphics engine makes this game more accessible to a wider range of hardware. AMD's Radeon HD 7670M is fairly smooth at 1280x720. You could call 1600x900 tolerable, though certainly not ideal for a fast-paced shooter.

The Radeon HD 8790M, however, smokes right through 1280x720, serves up respectable average frame rates at 1600x900, and even fares well enough to call playable at 1920x1080. Overall, the Mars-based ASIC enables around 50% better performance.

Interestingly, the Extra quality preset doesn't really change the performance picture at all. The benchmark results look the same as they did before.

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    aje21 , 21 December 2012 22:57
    So having misnamed products in the past they now have to continue to misname parts to avoid having something named correctly clash with a prior misnamed part!
    Stupid AMD (though the green camp is no better).
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    Anonymous , 22 December 2012 19:29
    Yes! they must or else the world will end!
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    Anonymous , 3 January 2013 05:40
    Hi Andrew,
    I'm curious why you would bother testing mobile graphics cards, and leave out the 1366x768 resolution... it's only the MOST COMMON resolution on "main stream" notebooks... who cares about 1280x720?
    Thanks
    Harison.