Asus AX800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro)

Name: Asus AX800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro) - Page 11
Brand: Asus

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 10:30 PM EDT

Benchmarks and Comparisons With Far Cry

DX9 effects galore.

Far Cry

If you've been on top of the gaming scene, you probably know that Far Cry is one of the most impressive game and to be released on the PC to date. While we peer at leaked versions of Doom 3 and video clips of Half Life 2, Far Cry gives us a taste of what is to come in next generation 3D Gaming on the PC. We benchmarked the graphics cards in our test, with a custom recorded demo run taken in the "Catacombs" area checkpoint, at various resolutions without AA or Aniso Filtering enabled and then with 4X AA, with 4X AA and 8X Aniso and lastly with 4X AA and 16X Aniso enabled.

The benchmark results using our custom FarCry demo look much like what we saw with Unreal Tournament 2004. In half of the tests (No AA and 4X AA, at both resolutions), the 16-Pipeline GeForce 6800 GT cards held onto sizable leads, hovering around 10%. In the remaining, more taxing, half of the tests (4X AA + 8X Aniso and 4X AA + 16X Aniso), however, the Asus AX800 Pro pulled way ahead of the competition. In some cases outperforming the second place BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC by as much as 40%.

Tags: Asus, Radeon, pro, X8

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com