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Performances Comparisons
With Novalogic's Comanche 4 |
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Combat Helicopter Sim |
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Comanche
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We
used Novalogic's combat helicopter simulator Comanche 4
for our next batch of DirectX tests. Comanche 4 uses DX8
class pixel and vertex shaders to produce some of the
realistic visuals used throughout the game. Unlike some
of the previous tests though, this benchmark is heavily
influenced by CPU and system memory performance,
especially at lower resolutions. However, when the
resolution is raised and anti-aliasing and anisotropic
filtering are enabled, the current crop of 3D
accelerators
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The MSI GeForce FX5900XT-VTD128
continued its winning ways in the Comanche 4 benchmark, were
it outpaced the competition at both resolutions, regardless
of what level of ant-aliasing or anisotropic filtering were
enabled, in every test configuration but one. With 4X
AA enabled at 1024x768, the ATi Radeon 9600 XT nudged by the
MSI card by a couple of frames per second, but that's the
only blemish on FX5900XT-VTD128's performance record so far.
In the remainder of the test configurations, the
FX5900XT-VTD128 was dominant.
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Benchmarks / Comparison
With
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory |
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Q3
Engine Based Freebie |
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Wolfenstein: ET
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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, 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
and lastly with 4X AA and 8X anisotropic filtering enable
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Using our custom timedemo with
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, the MSI FX5900XT-VTD128 routed
the competition yet again. Without any anti-aliasing
or anisotropic filtering, the MSI card was about 10% faster
than the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra at both resolutions, and
about 30% - 73% faster then the Radeon 9600 XT. With
AA and Aniso enabled, the FX5900XT-VTD128's lead increases
to over 400% in some test configurations. However, we
should mention that ATi is aware of their relatively poor
performance in this game and their release notes state a
future Catalyst driver release should resolve the situation.
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