BFG's GeForce FX 5900XT OC
Final comparisons with Comanche 4 and Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory
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Due to the CPU limitations, we can see that we're close to maximizing the frame rates at 1024x768 with no AA, as the three GeForce FX cards finished within 0.4 frames per second of each other. We'll need to tax the system a little bit more in order to get some meaningful results. Adding some AA and anisotropic filtering causes the 9600XT to drop off considerably, but has much less of an effect on the rest of the cards, especially the BFG 5900XT OC. At 1600x1200, we can begin to see a major decrease in performance with the 5700 Ultra and 9600XT, especially with the AA being applied. The 5900XTs are still capable of putting up close to 40 fps at 4xAA, and between 32-35 fps with some additional filtering enabled.
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Before we wrap things up, we took another look at a DX8-class engine with Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory. The GeForce FX cards seem to thrive on DX8 games, and we saw no exceptions here. At 1024x768, Nvidia's cards were 1-2-3, from the BFG 5900XT OC down to the 5700 Ultra. The 5900XT OC held it's ever so slight advantage over the e-VGA card in all but the 4xAA test at 1600x1200, where they were more memory bandwidth limited than anything else.
