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Performances Comparisons
With Final Fantasy XI Benchmark 2 v1.01 |
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Chocobos on the PC |
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Final
Fantasy XI
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The
Final Fantasy franchise is well known to console gamers,
but Squaresoft has since made the jump to the PC with a
MMORPG version of this classic. The Final Fantasy XI
benchmark runs through multiple scenes from the game and
displays a final score every time a full cycle of the
demo is completed. Although the demo is meant the check
an entire system's readiness to play the game, the
number of frames rendered scales with different
video cards installed. Lower scores indicate some frames
were dropped to complete the demo in the allotted time.
The scores below were taken with the demo set to "High
Resolution" (1024x768), with anti-aliasing disabled. |
The Radeons scored another
victory in the Final Fantasy benchmark, with the Abit Radeon
9800 XT surpassing the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra by 214 points,
or roughly 3.9%. The 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro also outran the
5950 Ultra here, but its 119 point (2.1%) margin of victory
was much smaller. All of the cards tested should have
no trouble running this game, however. Some mid-range
cards post scores about 50% lower than these, and still
maintain smooth, playable frame rates in this benchmark.
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Benchmarks / Comparison
With
Gun Metal |
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Transformers? Thexder? or is it Gun Metal? |
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Gun
Metal
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We
continued our testing with the pseudo-DX9 based Gun
Metal benchmark developed by Yeti Studios. This
benchmark, like all of the others used in this review,
is based on an actual game engine. Gun Metal uses Vertex
Shader 2.0 and Pixel Shader 1.1 ops in the creation of
the game world. This test is heavily GPU limited, and
because Yeti's intent was to stress all modern 3D
accelerators, anti-aliasing (2X) and Anisotropic
filtering are enabled by default, and can't be
disabled. We ran this test at 1024x768 and then again at
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Abit's Radeon 9800 XT performed
well in the Gun Metal tests, where it nudged past the
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra at 1024x768, albeit by a very slim .83
frame per second margin. At 1280x1024 though, the
GeForce FX came out on top, but it too only pulled ahead by
the tiniest of margins. It's interesting to note that
scores in the Gun Metal benchmark have changed significantly
over time. ATi powered cards have gotten faster with
each new driver release, but NVIDIA's cards have lost some
performance.
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