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Performances Comparisons
With Final Fantasy XI Benchmark 2 v1.01 |
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Chocobos on the PC |
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Final
Fantasy XI
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Final Fantasy is a title that is well known to console
gamers, and now Squaresoft is ready to make the jump to
the PC, with a MMORPG version of the classic. The Final
Fantasy XI benchmark runs through a few scenes from the
game and displays a final score every time a full cycle
is completed. 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
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. |
The Sapphire
Atlantis Radeon 9800 XT performed very well in the Final
Fantasy benchmark, outpacing all of the other cards we
tested. It beat the Asus Radeon 9800 XT by 19 frames,
and pulled ahead of the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra by 282 frames,
or roughly 5%. The GeForce FX 5700 Ultra performed at
a level much closer to the high-end cards in this test; it
seems like $175 can buy quite a bit of performance these
days.
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Benchmarks / Comparison
With
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 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
cannot be disabled. We ran this test at 1024x768
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The 9800XTs and
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra performed at very similar levels in
the Gun Metal benchmark. At 1024x768, a miniscule
performance delta of .64 FPS separated the first from third
place finisher. We saw more of the same at 1280x1204,
where the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra pulled ahead of the Sapphire
Atlantis Radeon 9800 XT by only .67 FPS. Its amazing
what a few driver revisions can do. When this
benchmark was first released, NVIDIA's cards were dominant.
Now the virtual playing field is level.
Next Up: Comanche 4 & Wolfenstein
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