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Performance Comparison With Final Fantasy XI Benchmark 2 v1.01 |
A Classic Console Franchise On The PC |
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Final Fantasy XI
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The Final Fantasy franchise is well known to console gamers, but Squaresoft has since made the jump to the PC with a MMORPG version of this classic. The Final Fantasy XI benchmark runs through multiple scenes from the game and displays a final score every time a full cycle of the demo is completed. Although the demo is meant the check an entire system's readiness to play the game, the number of frames rendered scales when different video cards are used. 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 its "High Resolution" option (1024x768), with anti-aliasing disabled. |
Right off the bat, we've got the Sapphire Toxic X800 Pro locking horns with NVIDIA's GeForce 6800 and 6800 GT. The 6800 GT pulled into the top spot with a score of 4731, but the 6800 only held a slim lead over the Sapphire Toxic. The 6800 and X800 Pro are much more comparable feature wise and the difference between the two cards resulted in less than a percent - completely meaningless in any benchmark. All three of these cards outpaced the older GeForce FX 5950 Ultra by 12-15%, even though they are running at same or lower processor speeds.