GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS SLI Performance Update

Name: GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS SLI Performance Update - Page 9
Brand: GeForce

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, December 18, 2006, 11:59 PM EDT

Performance Comparisons with F.E.A.R XHD

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F.E.A.R

One of the most highly anticipated titles of 2005 was Monolith's paranormal thriller F.E.A.R. Taking a look at the game's minimum system requirements, we see that you will need at least a 1.7GHz Pentium 4 with 512MB of system memory and a 64MB graphics card in the Radeon 9000 or GeForce4 Ti-classes or better, to adequately run the game. Using the full retail release of the game patched to v1.07, we put the graphics cards in this article through their paces to see how they fared with a popular title. Here, all graphics settings within the game were set to their maximum values, but with soft shadows disabled (Soft shadows and anti-aliasing do not work together currently). Benchmark runs were then completed at resolutions of 1920 x 1200 and 2560 x 1600 with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled.

Although the framerates are somewhat lower, the results of the built-in F.E.A.R. benchmark essentially mirror those of the HL2: Episode 1 results on the previous page. Once again, the GeForce 8800 GTX and 8800 GTX SLI configurations are simply in a league of their own, outpacing all of the other configurations by wide margins at both resolutions. The GeForce 8800 GTS and GTS SLI rigs also put up some good numbers, but the Radeon X1950 XTX's superior amount of memory bandwidth allowed it to pull ahead of the GTS at 2560x1600 in both single and dual-card configurations.

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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