Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising Benchmarks

Editorial Team, 11/06/2011

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.

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.

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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.

	Model	Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising (2010)
	Model	low 1024x768 low onAA	med. 1366x768 medium offAA	high 1366x768 high onAA	ultra 1920x1080 ultra onAA
113	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680	137	93	85	78
130	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590				83.4
151	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580	137	96	86	80
193	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M SLI	124	89	80	72
212	AMD Radeon HD 6870			90	76.4
213	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470				72.8
227	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M	118ⁿ²	83ⁿ²	84	59.5ⁿ²
328	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450	136	90	79	40.8
337	ATI Radeon HD 4850		101	79	39.5
356	NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M	88	61	51.2	27.2
410	AMD Radeon HD 6770M			55.4	26.5
457	NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M	118	64.4	47.4	21.42
487	NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M	55	42.6	31.8	14.2
511	AMD Radeon HD 7660G	57	37.7	30.3	19
521	AMD Radeon HD 6630M	71	50
591	Intel HD Graphics 4000	78.8	34.18	19.4	8.15
605	AMD Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5	82	38	26.3	12.1
657	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M	64	31	21.6	8.9
705	Intel HD Graphics 3000	39ⁿ³	16.3ⁿ³
	Model	Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising
	Model	low	med.	high	ultra
708	NVIDIA GeForce G210M	39	18.9	12.9	4.8
753	Intel HD Graphics 2000	26.4	10.38
761*	Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)	18.75ⁿ²	8.05ⁿ²
826	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.
The value in the fields displays the average frame rate of all values in the database. Move your cursor over the value to see individual results.