What are the specs/benchmarks for Bioshock in-game?

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Commando on 11 July 2008

and what your running them on please.

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Soleron on 11 July 2008

Card name	Lowest price	Performance	Performance/$
Geforce 8800GT	$129	56.9	0.44
Geforce 8800GTX	EOL	58.9	N/A
Geforce 8800GT SLI	$258	107	0.41
Geforce 9800GTX	$197	66.6	0.34
Geforce 9800GTX+	N/A	69.2	N/A
Geforce 9800GX2	$385	116.5	0.30
Geforce GTX260	$330	69	0.21
Geforce GTX280	$499	96.7	0.19
Radeon HD 3870	$99	64.6	0.65
Radeon HD 3870 X2	$339	62.6	0.18
Radeon HD 4850	$165	86.8	0.53
Radeon HD 4870	$299	107.7	0.36

These are the latest I could find.

Here are the lowest prices after MIR (newegg.com), their performance in bioshock, and calculated price/performance.

Bioshock is GPU limited, so any new $100+ dual-core or better CPU will do.

Best choice less than $100: HD 3870

Best choice less than $150: HD 3870

Best choice less than $200: HD 4850

Best choice $250 or above: HD 4870

Best choice $350 or above: 9800GX2

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IllegalPaladin on 11 July 2008

I ran the demo of Bioshock with,

GPU - 7800gt
CPU - e2160 @3.0ghz
RAM - 2gigs DDR2

I had most of the settings turned up and it wasn't a totally pleasant experience. It would be playable and hover around 25-35 FPS (even lower or higher) depending on what was going on. It's getting to be about that time to upgrade the GPU.