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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 users, but it appears that Squaresoft is ready
to make the jump to the PC, with a MMORPG version of the
classic. The demo version comes bundled with a
benchmark, which displays a score is displayed every
time it makes a full cycle. Although it was meant
more for checking a system's readiness to play the game,
we found that we could get a meaningful test by setting
it to high-res and dividing the score (rendered frames)
by the time elapsed to get the frame rate. |
We weren't sure how this
benchmark was going to go, since it's hard to tell just by
watching the score accumulate how the card is faring. The
numbers zipped by in some parts, and it seemed that some of
the graphics popped into focus instead of being drawn in
slowly. At any rate, we took the final score and
divided it by the time it took to run the test to get the
final frame rate. The GeForce FX 5700 Ultra was the
leader, followed by the 9600 XT and then the 5600.
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Benchmarks / Comparison
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Gun Metal |
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With
gameplay like this, we can't wait to play the real
thing |
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Yeti Studios has also released a benchmark that is based
on a real game. According to Yeti, it is designed
to push the latest DX9 based cards to the limit using
Pixel and Vertex Shaders to display a rapidly changing
battlefield. To help achieve this, anti-aliasing
and anisotropic filtering are built into the engine, 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. |
When it came to Gun Metal,
at least, we had to take back our earlier statements about
NVIDIA and DX9 shaders. This benchmark was utterly
dominated by the 5700 Ultra, and we had to check our results
since the margin of difference was so great. We're
talking a performance difference of more than 35% over the
Radeon 9600 XT, and 45% on top of the 5600 Ultra.
Next Up: Comanche 4 & Wolfenstein
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