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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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Final Fantasy is a title that is well known to
console gamers, but it appears that Squaresoft is ready
to make the jump to the PC, with a MMORPG version of the
classic. The demo version comes bundled with a
benchmark, which displays a final score every time a full cycle is completed. Although
the demo is meant
the check an entire system's readiness to play the game,
the number of frames rendered in the demo scales well
with different video cards installed. Lower scores indicated
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. |
Like the UT2003 tests, the Final
Fantasy XI results were mixed. At the high-end, the
Asus Radeon 9800 XT beat the 5950 Ultra by a margin of about
5%. The 9600 XT, however, couldn't quite catch the
5700 Ultra. The GeForce FX 5700 Ultra outran the Asus
Radeon 9600 XT by 260 frames in this test, or roughly 5.7%.
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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 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. In fact, this game is included
with both of these Asus Radeon XTs! 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 cannot
be disabled. We ran this test at 1024x768 and
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NVIDIA DX9 parts have
traditionally performed very well in the Gun Metal
benchmark, and they didn't disappoint here. At both resolutions, the GeForce FX 5950
Ultra led the pack, but the Asus Radeon 9800 XT was nipping
at its heals the whole time. For all intents and purposes
their performance was identical. The GeForce FX 5700
Ultra on the other hand, looked very strong versus the 9600
XT. At 1024x768 and at 1280x1024, the 5700 Ultra
pulled ahead of the 9600 XT by a hefty 24%.
Next Up: Comanche 4 & Wolfenstein
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