NVIDIA GeForce 6800

Name: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 - Page 5
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, July 09, 2004, 05:00 PM EDT

Benchmarks With Halo

Halo - All Patched & Ready To Go!

Halo

For many gamers, the release of Halo marked the end of a long wait, since it was originally released as an Xbox exclusive a few years back. No additional patches or tweaks are needed to benchmark with Halo, as Gearbox has included all of the necessary information in their README file. The Halo benchmark runs through four of the cut-scenes from the game, after which the average frame rate is recorded. We updated the game using the latest v1.04 patch and ran this benchmark twice, once at 1024x768 and then again at 1280x1024. Anti-aliasing doesn't work properly with Halo at the moment, so all of the test below were run with anti-aliasing disabled

Our results in the Halo testing mirrored what we saw with Splinter Cell. The Radeon 9800 XT and GeForce 5950 Ultra battled it out at the low-end of the scale, with the 6800s and X800 holding onto some huge leads. At 1024x768, the $299 6800 even managed to pull ahead of the $400 Radeon X800 Pro by a couple of frames per second, but it fell behind by about 7.8 FPS at 1280x1024.

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, force, 680, id

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