Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 550 Ti: Coming Up Short At $150

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Now approaching a year old, Bad Company 2 remains as one of the cornerstone DX11 games in our benchmark suite. Based on the Frostbite 1.5 engine, it will be replaced in complexity by the DX10+ only Frostbite 2 engine (and Battlefield 3) later this year. As BC2 doesnt have a built-in

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Now approaching a year old, Bad Company 2 remains as one of the cornerstone DX11 games in our benchmark suite. Based on the Frostbite 1.5 engine, it will be replaced in complexity by the DX10+ only Frostbite 2 engine (and Battlefield 3) later this year.  As BC2 doesn’t have a built-in benchmark or recording mode, here we take a FRAPS run of the jeep chase in the first act, which as an on-rails portion of the game provides very consistent results and a spectacle of explosions, trees, and more.

Whether Bad Company 2 favors AMD or NVIDIA cards seems to have more to do with phases of the moon than logic. In this case though it works against NVIDIA, leading to another poor showing for the GTX 550. Here we’re looking at the GTX 550 falling to the 5770 by 2%, meanwhile there’s a 25% gap to close versus the 6850. Compared to NVIDIA’s other cards however we see a sizable 23% pickup versus the GTS 450, and a smaller 17% gap against the GTX 460. We don’t normally use AA on this game at 1680, so the GTX 550 should have enough power to run it with 4x AA at the cost of a bit of the silky-smooth 68fps, or alternatively going up to 1920 without any AA.

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