the new Doom/HL/Unreal engines are - Far Cry at 1600x1200 with FSAA and
AF will be an extreme torture test for years to come.
- Jim
Angel Stewart wrote:
>After all their talk about their cards including Shader Model 3.0 in hardware,
>and ATI cards only supporting PS2.0 in hardware, the ATI Cards come along and
>STILL trump the NVIDIA cards using Pixel Shader Model 3.
>
>"Benchmarking with Far Cry - This is the extreme torture test, 1600x1200 with a
>good amount of AA and AF piled on top. The frame rates these cards are able to
>achieve are truly remarkable, but remember; during actual gameplay the frame
>rate would be slower in scenes of action. The X800 XT does incredibly well here,
>showing an 11% jump over the shader model 3.0 path and HYPERLINK
>"http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1620275,00.asp" \nan impressive 25%
>boost over the shader model 2.0 path on the 6800 Ultra. "
>
>Is there *any* reason to buy an Nvidia card now??
>Well , beside the lack of availability of the ATI X800 series of cards at retail
>^_^
>
>-Gel
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