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Performances Comparisons
With Novalogic's Comanche 4 |
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The
Performance Battlefield |
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Novalogic's Comanche 4 Demo is probably the oldest of the tests in our
current suite of benchmarks. This benchmark
uses DX8 class
pixel and vertex shaders to produce some of the
realistic visuals used throughout the demo. Unlike the
previous tests, this benchmark is heavily influenced by
CPU and system memory performance, especially at lower
resolutions. Usually, when the resolution is raised and
AA and Anisotropic filtering are enabled, the
performance of most video cards tends to slow down quite a bit,
however, we won't need to do so here with these two
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At 1024x768,
we
find that the 5200 Ultra is putting up a respectable 41.71
frames per second. Nothing to write home about, but
not too far off the mark with some of the more powerful
video cards we've tested. The Stealth S80 could only
muster up just shy of 24 fames - which is one of the lowest
scores we have seen in this benchmark without AA applied.
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Benchmarks / Comparison
With
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory |
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New
Game, Better Effects, Old Engine |
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We also ran through a
batch of timedemos with the OpenGL game Wolfenstein:
Enemy Territory.
Wolfenstein:
ET is a free, standalone multiplayer game that is based
on the original Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which was
released a few years back.
It uses a modified Quake3
engine yet exhibits plenty of CPU scaling and platform
variation, which also makes it a good benchmarking tool.
We created a custom demo and used the built-in timedemo
feature to check each card's frame rate. The tests
below were run at 1024x768 and 1280x1024, with and
without 2 samples of anti-aliasing. |
As we've
seen in past reviews, Wolfenstein just seems to run better
on GeForce powered cards, but in these two tests the 5200
Ultra outpaced the Diamond Stealth S80 by 200-300%. In
a battle of value-minded cards, we really would have to give
the edge to the 5200 Ultra over a 9200SE based on these
results. The best thing we can say here is that we saw a
minimal loss of performance with the 9200SE, usually a
single frame or less per second, when using 2XAA.
Overclocking & The Conclusion
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