Performance in Strategies

Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War

Dawn of War is very sensitive to the number of pixel pipelines the graphics card has. The 16-pipelined GPUs run this game at the maximum speed, the 12-pipelined GeForce 6800 is a little slower, and the mainstream 8-pipelined cards like RADEON X700 XT and Leadtek WinFast PX6600 GT TDH share the third place. Overclocking the latter ensures a nice performance gain that helps the Leadtek card to challenge the GeForce 6800.

When full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering are enabled, the cards with more than 8 pipelines and a 256-bit memory bus find themselves far ahead of the rest of the participants. As for the WinFast PX6600 GT TDH, its performance is on the same level with the RADEON X700 PRO. When overclocked, this card leaves the X700 PRO behind, but cannot catch up with the top-end solutions, although the overclocking gain amounts to 20% and more here.