Moving on to DX10 and VISTA (32bit), we maxed all possible visual details for all tested games. This way, we can determine if a graphics card can be used for high quality gaming and therefore greater gaming experience. Starting with Company Of Heroes, under D3D10 shaders, the game is really stunning. We saw that the 8600GTS cards can't get above 17FPS. However, both 8800GT graphics cards had more or less the same performance. Enabling SLI mode didn't show any major increase in performance as we had expected, only a mere 3FPS.

Call Of Juarez is one of the first titles with full DX10 support. The Benchmark gives rather low frame rates with all cards. The two 8800GT cards had similar performance, but enabling SLI really gives a boost in framerate.

Under VISTA and DX10, users can enable Very High details for Crysis. This also implies a massive performance hit, since most cards performed 50% below to what we got with the DX9 benchmarks when all details are set to HIGH. The 8800GT cards produced similar performance, but we can't consider 19.36FPS good performance for a 3D FPS game... Again, SLI does help slightly, but adds only 2FPS...

Lastly, Lost Planet is also affected when all details are maxed out. The HDR and high details mode are playable with the 8800GT cards, and this time with SLI you can experience much higher speeds.