Zotac GTX 465 Review: Full-on, affordable Fermi?

Tom Clancy HAWX is set in the same universe as Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter; as Captain Scott Mitchell, the Ghost leader, is featured in a few missions of the missions. Plot elements are carried over from other Tom Clancy games such as the missile defense system found in Tom Clancy's EndWar. G4's interview with H.A.W.X's lead designer Thomas Simon reveals that the game takes place in between Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 and Tom Clancy's EndWar.

The player begins the game in 2014 as the player assumes the role of former U.S. Air Force pilot, David Crenshaw, who is part of an elite unit called H.A.W.X (“High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron”), provides fire-support missions for the Ghost team carrying out covert operations in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. However, shortly after the mission, the Air Force decides to deactivate the H.A.W.X squadron and its pilots, including Crenshaw, are recruited into the PMC Artemis Global Security.

We tested DX 10 with shadows high, sun shafts high, ambient occlusion (SSAO) very high. view distance high, forest high, environment high, texture quality high, HDR on, Engine heat on and DOF on.

8XAA and 16af was also enabled.

The HD 5850 comes out on top however the GTX465 delivers a solid frame rate throughout and in real world terms the differences are not even noticeable.

The frame rate varies often as explosions and close encounters with enemy aircraft causes the frame rate to dip. The frame rates of the GTX465 however are always above 40 and this is an excellent set of results. Although the frame rates for both the Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce GTX465 are very close, the nVidia card that just feels smoother with this engine.

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