eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition

Name: eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition - Page 8
Brand: eVGA

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, August 11, 2004, 06:00 PM EDT

Benchmarks / Comparisons With Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

Q3 Engine Based Freebie

Wolfenstein: ET

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 excellent Return to Castle Wolfenstein, that was released a few years back. It uses a heavily modified version of the Quake 3 engine, which makes it a very easy to use benchmarking tool. We created our own custom demo and used the built-in timedemo feature to check each card's frame-rate. The tests below were run at 1024x768 and again at 1600x1200, without anti-aliasing, with 4X AA, wand lastly with 4X AA and 16X anisotropic filtering enabled concurrently.

With Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory running at 1024x768, all of the cards we tested were basically CPU bound in every configuration, except for the AA and Aniso test, where the Radeon X800 XT PE dropped a few frames per second and lost to all three of the GeForce cards. At 1600x1200, without any anti-aliasing, the GeForce cards again outpaced the Radeon, but with 4XAA, and again with 4X AA and 16X Anisotropic filtering enabled, the Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition was sped passed the fastest GeForce (the eVGA 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition) by about 10%.

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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