Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising Benchmarks

The RTS Dawn of War 2 is based in the Warhammer 40.000 Universum and offers decent graphics and a good single player story. In the following article we will present benchmarks of various laptops and desktop systems.

Editorial Team, Published 11/06/2011

How We Test

We use the integrated benchmark test and the graphics presets to test the game. The benchmark shows a massive battle and should give a good impression of the gameplay.

Analysis of the Benchmarks

To play Dawn of War II you need at least a modern integrated graphics card like the Intel HD Graphics 3000. However, the lowest detail setting are not very appealing.

For good looking high settings you should at least have a mid range graphics card in your laptop, like the GeForce GT 540M.

To play in the highest settings and resolutions fluently, a mobile high-end graphics card like a GeForce GTX 560M or a mid range desktop card like the GeForce GTS 450 are needed.

The benchmark itself is not very CPU bound, as the old GeForce G210M with a slow 1.7 GHz Core 2 Duo manages to keep up in low details.

An overview of the games we have tested can be found here.

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Pos	Model	< Prev Next > Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising (2010)
Pos	Model	low 1024x768 low onAA	med. 1366x768 medium offAA	high 1366x768 high onAA	ultra 1920x1080 ultra onAA
299	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680	137	93	85	78
317	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590				83.4
345	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580	137	96	86	80
399	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI	124	89	80	72
421	AMD Radeon HD 6870			90	76.4
422	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470				72.8
438	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M	118ⁿ²	83ⁿ²	84	59.5ⁿ²
585	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450	136	90	79	40.8
594	ATI Radeon HD 4850		101	79	39.5
613	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M	88	61	51.2	27.2
673	AMD Radeon HD 6770M			55.4	26.5
720	NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M	118	64.4	47.4	21.42
752	NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M	55	42.6	31.8	14.2
797	AMD Radeon HD 7660G	57	37.7	30.3	19
807	AMD Radeon HD 6630M	71	50
881	Intel HD Graphics 4000	78.8	34.18	19.4	8.15
895	AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5	82	38	26.3	12.1
953	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M	64	31	21.6	8.9
1010	Intel HD Graphics 3000	39ⁿ³	16.3ⁿ³
Pos	Model	< Prev Next >Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising
Pos	Model	low	med.	high	ultra
1013	NVIDIA GeForce G210M	39	18.9	12.9	4.8
1058	Intel HD Graphics 2000	26.4	10.38
1066*	Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)	18.75ⁿ²	8.05ⁿ²
1132	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD	6.14

Legend
5	Stutters – This game is very likely to stutter and have poor frame rates. Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, average frame rates are expected to fall below 25fps
	May Stutter – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, stutters and poor frame rates are expected.
30	Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 25fps
40	Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 35fps
60	Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 58fps
	May Run Fluently – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, fluent frame rates are expected.
?	Uncertain – This graphics card experienced unexpected performance issues during testing for this game. A slower card may be able to achieve better and more consistent frame rates than this particular GPU running the same benchmark scene.
	Uncertain – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game and no reliable interpolation can be made based on the performances of surrounding cards of the same class or family.
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