Need for Speed Carbon delivers the next generation of adrenaline-filled street racing and will challenge players to face the ultimate test of driving skill on treacherous canyon roads.

What starts in the city is settled in the canyons as Need for Speed Carbon immerses you into the world's most dangerous and adrenaline-filled form of street racing. You and your crew must race in an all-out war for the city, risking everything to take over your rivals' neighbourhoods one block at a time. As the police turn up the heat, the battle ultimately shifts to Carbon Canyon, where territories and reputations can be lost on every perilous curve.

Lets race...

Need for Speed Carbon delivers the next generation of customization giving you the power to design and tweak your crew's cars in every way using the ground-breaking new Autosculpt technology. Represent your car class, your crew, and your turf in Need for Speed Carbon, the next revolution in racing games.

In order to benchmark the graphics cards, we created the same two rounds at the same track with the same car. By using FRAPS, we recorded all 2 minutes of driving.

Black and beautiful...

Keep in mind that all tests results were done with "Blur Effect" and "Rain" disabled, since enabling them gives a huge performance hit on all cards. In any case, all other detail settings are maxed out. As usual, AA/AF modes are set by using Nvidia's 3D control panel.

Without enabling AA/AF, we can see the performance of each card at 1280x1024.

The EVGA 7950GT KO had the highest performance with 41FPS average and 31 FPS lowest frame rate. The Gainward 7950GT GS continues to be behind by only 1 FPS as has been the case with almost every benchmark to date.

Enabling AA/AF in NFS Carbon is...difficult for all VGA cards to handle. We assume that an acceptable frame rate would be something above 25~30FPS, so stay with 16xAF/2xAA, even with your newly bought 7950GT card. Adding a second 7950 (SLI) will probably boost NFS Carbon's overall performance.