NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX Round-Up: BFG, EVGA, Zogis

Name: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX Round-Up: BFG, EVGA, Zogis - Page 6
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, April 01, 2008, 08:00 AM EDT

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

OpenGL Gaming Performance

Enemy Territory:
Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is Based on id's radically enhanced Doom 3 engine and viewed by many as Battlefield 2 meets the Strogg, and then some. In fact, we'd venture to say that id took EA's team-based warfare genre up a notch or two. ET: Quake Wars also marks the introduction of John Carmack's "Megatexture" technology that employs extremely large environment and terrain textures that cover vast areas of maps without the need to repeat and tile many small textures. The beauty of megatexture technology is that each unit only takes up a maximum of 8MB of frame buffer memory. Add to that HDR-like bloom lighting and leading edge shadowing effects and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars looks great, plays well and works high end graphics cards vigorously. The game was tested with all of its in-game options set to their maximum values with soft particles enabled in addition to 4X anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering.

We saw more of the same with our custom Enemy Territory: Quake Wars benchmark. In this game, the GeForce 9800 GTX was once again slightly faster then the GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB and 8800 GTX at both resolution. It's also worth pointing out that 2- and 3-way GeForce 9800 GTX SLI showed very good scaling in this OpenGL application, and would have been the fastest overall had we not also tested a dual-GeForce 9800 GX2 quad-SLI configuration.

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, evga, 9800 GT, GTX, BFG, round-up, VGA, force, 980, GT, 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