March 12, 2006
2560x1600 Gaming Performance Benchmarks
Firingsquad has the skinny on 2560x1600 gaming goodness. It looks like you really need an SLI solution to have playable first person shooter frame-rates. I think 30 inches is over-kill for gaming as I like my 2001FP gaming just fine. 1600x1200 with better graphic detail is fine for me.
If you saw our GeForce 7600 and 7900 articles yesterday, you’re probably not too surprised by our final results at 2560x1600 – the overall winners and losers didn’t change much at the higher res, just the margin of victory. For instance, NVIDIA clearly dominates in Quake 4 and Pacific Fighters.
