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Performances Comparisons
With Final Fantasy XI v2.0 |
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Chocobos finally make it to the big screen |
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Final Fantasy is a title that is more well known by
console gamers, but it appears that Squaresoft is ready
to make the jump to the PC, with a MMORPG version of the
classic. The demo version is equipped with a built-in
benchmark, which displays a score every
time it makes a full cycle.
Although the demo is meant the check an entire system's
readiness to play the game, the number of frames
rendered in the demo scales well with different video
cards installed. Lower scores indicated 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. |
It's a
relatively tight pack, with less than 600 points separating
the top from the bottom. The 5900 SE fell in evenly
between its brethren; 6% behind the 5950 Ultra and 6% ahead
of the 5700 Ultra. Price-wise, however, the 5900SE
will come in a lot closer to the 5700 Ultra, which could
spell an early doom for this recently released model.
ATI's top entry in it's 9600 line lands squarely in fourth.
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Benchmarks / Comparison
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Gun Metal |
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With
game play like this, we can't wait to play the real
thing |
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Gun Metal uses Vertex Shader 2.0 and Pixel Shader 1.1
ops in the creation of the game world. Yeti's attempt is
to heavily stress the GPU, and to achieve this,
anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering are enabled by
default, and cannot be disabled. As such, the average
frame rates are lower than one should expect with the
actual game, so don't be discouraged by the scores that
you see in the graphs below. The benchmark was run
twice; once at 1024x768x32, and again at 1280x1024x32. |
The FX 5900 and 5950 based cards are in the lead, with the 5700 Ultra
not too far off the mark. The 9600 XT just didn't fare
very well at either resolution, not even challenging the
5700 Ultra. Incidentally, we see approximately the
same hit in frame rates when moving from 1024x768 to
1280x1024 on all cards.
Next Up: Comanche 4 & Wolfenstein
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