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Performances Comparisons
With Final Fantasy XI v2.0 |
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Chocobos finally make it to the big screen |
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Final Fantasy is a title that is more well known by
console gamers, but it appears that Squaresoft has made
a successful jump to the PC, with a MMORPG version of
the classic. The demo version is equipped with a
built-in benchmark, which displays a score every time it
makes a full cycle. 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. |
The results
were much closer in the Final Fantasy benchmark, where only
258 points separated
the top performer, the 5900XT from the lowest performer,
that being the 9600XT. The AA5700U fell evenly between
the two: 122 points behind the 5900XT and 136 points ahead
of the 9600XT. Price-wise, however the e-VGA 5900XT we
used for testing was usually found for less than Chaintech's
Apogee AA5700U, which would make it not only better, but
cheaper. One almost wonders if it might have served
Chaintech better to have come out with a remodeled 5900XT
rather than a 5700 Ultra.
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Benchmarks / Comparison
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Gun Metal |
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Well,
he's got guns, and he's metal...let's call it 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
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Anybody who
has regularly checked in with our reviews should not be
overly surprised by the results we found with Gun Metal.
The AA5700U's numbers were respectable, usually falling in
about 10-15 percent behind the 5900XT. The 9600XT was
nowhere to be found, easily spanked by both of the GeForce
FX based cards. The AA5700U may have scored one
against ATi here, but it's real competitor may be one
already found in NVIDIA's own ranks.
Next Up: Comanche 4 & Wolfenstein: ET
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