Final Thoughts

Every bit had to be expected, calculation DirectX 11 support made Telephone call of Duty: Black Ops Two a more demanding championship, just not to an extreme by any means. Compared to our tests conducted 2 years agone on the original Black Ops title, the second installment saw graphics cards such as the Radeon HD 6770 drop around 35% in performance, while the 6870 suffered a 29% operation reduction. Information technology was a similar story for Nvidia cards, the GeForce GTX 480 was 44% slower and the GTX 580 was 38% slower.

As far as the visuals go, the updates made to the game engine accept improved things, giving this Call of Duty game a fresher, more than detailed look. This is certainly not the situation nosotros faced last twelvemonth when going from Mod Warfare 2 to MW3, which left united states of america with no visual enhancements over its ii-year sometime predecessor.

If the comparison serves any purpose, Black Ops 2 remains a less demanding game than the recently reviewed Medal of Laurels: Warfigher which uses the Frostbite 2.0 engine. The GeForce GTX 660 Ti was 15% faster in Black Ops II, while the Radeon HD 7870 was 13% faster.

If you plan to game at the popular 1920x1080 resolution (1080p) -- which is virtually the aforementioned as the 1920x1200 we tested at, for performance purposes -- you will only require a Radeon HD 5870 or GeForce GTX 480, both of which are two generations one-time at present. Looking frontwards at something more current the Radeon HD 7770 managed 39fps while the GeForce GTX 650 Ti was more than impressive with 46fps.

Those looking for serious operation need not look farther than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti or Radeon Hard disk drive 7950, both of which managed just over 80fps, while the Radeon HD 7870 made a compelling argument with 76fps.

Even at 2560x1600 gamers volition be happy with the performance the GeForce GTX 660 Ti and Radeon Hard disk drive 7950 have to offer.

When we looked at processor scaling and performance, it became clear that similar previous Telephone call of Duty titles, Black Ops 2 is predominantly a GPU-bound game. Providing you have at to the lowest degree four threads to play with, it should be possible to become the most out of today's high-terminate GPUs.

Overall, Call of Duty Black Ops Ii looks like an heady start person shooter with an immersive single role player campaign, though I have to acknowledge to only playing the offset few missions. The graphics are improved when compared to previous Call of Duty titles though they are nowhere near they could exist for a belatedly-2012 PC game.