Call Of Duty: Ghosts Graphics Performance: 17 Cards, Tested

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It's already a commercial blockbuster. But does Call of Duty: Ghosts improve the first-person shooter genre, or simply rehash it? We look at this series' newest installment and test to see what kind of hardware you'll need for smooth play on the PC.

Results: High Quality, 1680x1050

Let's kick the details up a notch with settings that deliver a more attractive output. First, image quality is set to Extra, ensuring that the game is rendering at full resolution, and not upscaling. Depth of field, distortion, and shadows are turned on, while screen space ambient occlusion is enabled at the Low setting. We also turn on FXAA to get rid of the jaggies.

Even the lowest-end cards we're testing manage around 30 FPS at minimum and 40 FPS on average. So, we'll call the Radeon HD 7770 and GeForce GTX 650 Ti good baseline boards for 1680x1050 at this detail level.

One of the settings we turned on exacts a big latency penalty compared to the previous page. Faster boards like the Radeon R9 270X tend to be alright, but there's still something going on that affects the consistent performance.

Don Woligroski
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Don Woligroski was a former senior hardware editor for Tom's Hardware. He has covered a wide range of PC hardware topics, including CPUs, GPUs, system building, and emerging technologies.