AMD Radeon HD 6950 & HD 6970 2GB

Just Cause 2 might not belong to a well-established series of games, but with its launch, it looks like that might not be the case for long. The game offers not only superb graphics, but an enormous world to explore, and for people like me, a countless number of hidden items to find around it. During the game, you’ll be scaling skyscrapers, racing through jungles and fighting atop snow-drenched mountains. What’s not to like?

Manual Run-through: The level chosen here is part of the second mission in the game, “Casino Bust”. Our runthrough begins at the second-half of the level, which requires us to situate ourselves on top of a car and have our driver, Karl Blaine, speed us through part of the island to safety. This is a great mission for benchmarking as we get to see a lot of the landmass, even if some of it is at a distance.

Both Dirt 2 and Just Cause 2 tend to favor AMD’s cards over NVIDIA’s, but while AMD fell slightly behind where we expected it to be with Dirt 2, it came ahead in Just Cause 2. Here, rather than NVIDIA’s GTX 570 coming ahead of AMD’s HD 6970, the latter came ahead of NVIDIA’s flagship, the GTX 580.