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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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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 a
few 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 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. |
A relatively small performance
delta of only 3.7% separated the "fastest" card in the
group, the ATi Radeon 9800 XT, from the MSI FX5950 Ultra,
which brought up the rear. Looking back at some past
reviews, we've seen performance differences between the 9800
XT and 5950 Ultra over 5% in this test, so things have
gotten better for NVIDIA here.
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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 pseudo-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 and
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At 1024x768, the MSI FX5950
Ultra placed second, coming in just behind the Radeon 9800
XT. The .83 FPS performance delta between the two
cards falls well within the margin of error in this test
though. When we upped the resolution to 1280x1024, the
MSI FX5950 Ultra managed to pull off a victory, but once
again the performance delta was too small to be considered
meaningful. ATi's driver team has definitely focused
some attention on Gun Metal, as they used to get
consistently beat by NVIDIA's products in this benchmark.
Next Up: Comanche 4 & Wolfenstein
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