Call of Duty: World at War
We tested the latest Call of Duty title by playing through the first 60 seconds of the game's third mission and recording frame rates via FRAPS. Although testing in this matter isn't precisely repeatable from run to run, we believe averaging the results from five runs is sufficient to get reasonably reliable comparative numbers. With FRAPS, we can also report the lowest frame rate we encountered. Rather than average those, we've reported the median of the low scores from the five test runs, to reduce the impact of outliers. (Jeez, dude, you have a religion degree. Quit talking like that.) The frame-by-frame info for each card was taken from a single, hopefully representative play-testing session.

Since this game isn't too hard on the GPU, we tested with all of its visual quality options at their highest settings and the screen res at 2560x1600. Why such a high resolution? Well, this is a review of video cards that cost upwards of 300 bucks. You don't need an expensive video card for lower resolutions.

Nvidia pretty much cleans up here, with the GeForce 9800 GTX+ outperforming even the Radeon HD 4870 1GB. Both the GTX 285 and 295 perform relatively well.