Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

One of the biggest game releases of last year was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. With a huge cross-platform multi-player following, we have decided to include Modern Warfare 2 because despite its hardcore appeal to FPS players, it handles low detail settings very well.

We set Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to its lowest settings, with V-Sync disabled and the resolution was set to 1,280 x 800. We manually ran the first part of the Special Ops Alpha campaign for 90 seconds, three times over with FRAPS 3.03 and took an average result.

AMD 880G Graphics Performance Review AMD 880G Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 AMD 880G Graphics Performance Review AMD 880G Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

1280x800 0xAA 0xAF, Lowest Settings

  • Nvidia GeForce 9400 (Core 2 Duo E8500)
  • AMD 880G (Phenom II X2 550 BE)
  • AMD 785G (Phenom II X2 550 BE)
  • Intel GMA HD (Core i5 661: 900MHz IGP)
  • Intel GMA HD (Core i3 530: 733MHz IGP)
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  • Minimum FPS

There's very little difference between the IGP of the 880G and that of the previous-generation 785G; we saw the minimum frame rate hit the exact same level, although those extra 60MHz on the core generate a couple more FPS on average. We surmise that the CPU is limiting the minimum frame rate and that the extra 60MHz of speed has given the Radeon HD 4250 of the 880G a 2fps advantage over the Radeon HD 4200 of the 785G chipset.
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