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Performances Comparisons
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Chocobos on the PC |
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Final
Fantasy XI
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The
Final Fantasy franchise is well known to console gamers,
but Squaresoft has since made the jump to the PC with a
MMORPG version of this classic. The Final Fantasy XI
benchmark runs through multiple scenes from the game and
displays a final score every time a full cycle of the
demo is completed. Although the demo is meant the check
an entire system's readiness to play the game, the
number of frames rendered scales with different
video cards installed. Lower scores indicate 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. |
We're half-way through our suite
of benchmarks, and so far neither the Radeon 9600 XT nor the
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra have been able to touch the MSI
GeForce FX5900XT-VTD128. The trend continued with the
Final Fantasy XI benchmark, where the MSI card finished the
demo loop at 4995 frames, which was 437 frames, or 9.5%,
higher than the next-fastest 5700 Ultra, which in turn was
about 4.3% faster than the Radeon 9600 XT.
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Benchmarks / Comparison
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Gun Metal |
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Transformers? Thexder? or is it Gun Metal? |
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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 at
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The GeForce FX 5700 Ultra came
close to catching the MSI FX5900XT-VTD128 in the Gun Metal
benchmark, but the Radeon 9600 XT wasn't competitive with
either. The MSI card surpassed the GeForce FX 5700
Ultra by a little over 2 FPS at 1024x768 and by almost 4 FPS
at 1600x1200. When compared to the Radeon 9600 XT,
however, the FX5900XT-VTD128 looked much better. It
was roughly twice as fast as the Radeon at both resolutions.
Next Up: Comanche 4 & Wolfenstein
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