NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570

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.

AMD has a slight edge with Just Cause 2, and that’s evident in our results here. As a result of that, the GTX 570, which is technically more capable than an HD 5850, churns out the same amount of average FPS. Still, good performance for a card of this pricepoint.

Though 31 FPS might be playable for some, it’s not going to be for many. To achieve playable framerates, we had to drop both the objects and water detail down to high, and then disable both anti-aliasing and SSAO. I had expected to be able to retain SSAO, even at a low setting, no cigar. Disabling it netted us an additional 8 FPS… too high of a number to ignore. That changed helped us reach an average of 46 FPS… much better.