The story begins as an unidentified paramilitary force infiltrates a multi-billion dollar aerospace compound. The government responds by sending in Special Forces, but loses contact as an eerie signal interrupts radio communications. When the interference subsides moments later, the team has been literally torn apart. As part of a classified strike team created to deal with threats no one else can handle, your mission is simple: Eliminate the intruders at any cost. Determine the origin of the signal. And contain this crisis before it spirals out of control.

For all tests, we used the latest available patch that updates game engine to v1.08. The game offers 1280x1024 resolution, which was used for all tests. We maxed all details for CPU and for VGA card, except for Soft Shadows and AA/AF. We used Nvidia's 3D Control panel to enable AA/AF, as indicated in each graph.

Below are the results after using the built-in benchmark test:

The difference in framerates between the three cards is minimal. The EVGA 7950GT managed the highest at 90FPS on average, while Gainward 7950GT and XFX 7950GT managed 89 and 88 FPS respectively. It would be interesting to see which card would be least affected after enabling AA/AF. That is the aim of our next test.

As was expected, enabling AA/AF creates a performance hit on all our tested cards. Both the EVGA 7950GT and Gainward 7950GT are very close, while the XFX 7950GT is the slowest of the three, since it has the lower core/memory clocks.