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Why not get our
Quake 3 Arena on? This dinosaur of a game engine still
looks decent at high resolution, with all the eye candy turn
up to max. This is exactly how we tested with Q3, of
course.
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Quake 3 and Serious Sam SE Testing |
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Old
Game Engines Die Hard |
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There is a very
interesting story being told here in these Quake 3
benchmarks. The NV35 is on top by small margins,
without AA or Aniso enabled. This is indicative of a
more CPU limited condition than anything else.
However, turn on 4X AA and the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra surges
past the R9800 Pro by 16 - 27%, depending on the resolution.
Yet when we enable Aniso Filtering, the gap closes
dramatically, with the GFFX 5900 U losing out to the R9800
Pro at 1024 and pulling ahead by only a small percentage at
1600X1200. This is indicative with the struggle NVIDIA
is still having with respect to performance optimizations in
their Anisotropic Filtering techniques.
Even at high res,
Serious Sam SE just isn't taxing enough on these high end
graphics cards. However, turn on AA and you begin to
separate the men from the boys, where the GeForce FX 5900
Ultra takes the lead with a 10 to 16% gain over the Radeon
9800 Pro.
Comanche 4 and Unreal Tournament 2003
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