In this section of 3Digest we control changes in rendering quality in selected applications after drivers updates.

Contents

1. Graphics cards
2. Galleries of current importance
3. Gallery archive

Graphics cards

The following graphics cards were used to make the Quality Control section:

• ATI Radeon X850 Pro PCIE (Sapphire RADEON X850 PRO)
• ATI Radeon X1900 XTX (ATI Reference Card)
• NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX (NVIDIA Reference Card)
• NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (Chaintech Apogee GeForce 8800 GTS)

Besides, the following cards have been tested before:

• ATI Radeon X800 Pro (PowerColor RADEON X800 PRO LE) (until 07.2005)
• ATI Radeon X1800 XL (ATI Reference Card) (until 03.2006)
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT PCIE (ASUS Extreme N6800GT) (until 12.2006)
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra (NVIDIA Reference Card) (until 07.2005)
• NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX (NVIDIA Reference Card) (until 02.2007)

Galleries of current importance

Galleries are updated a) when a patch that considerably changes rendering quality is released; and b) when new drivers are released. In the former case the gallery is re-shot completely for all drivers involved.

Considering that ATI releases new, but rather similar drivers every month, we perform quality control for ATI graphics cards on each first month of the quarter (January, April, July and October).

In case of NVIDIA we examine just new official drivers which also happens about once in three months.

Anyway, we reserve the right to examine drivers, official or leaked, out of turn, if we are just interested in it.

1. Doom 3 v1.3
   • GeForce 7800
   • GeForce 8800
   • Radeon X800/X850
   • Radeon X1800/X1900

2. Far Cry v1.4
   • GeForce 7800
   • GeForce 8800
   • Radeon X800/X850
   • Radeon X1800/X1900

Gallery archive

These galleries are not updated anymore, but still available for browsing.

1. Doom 3 v1.3
   • GeForce 6800

2. Far Cry v1.4
   • GeForce 6800

3. Half-Life 2
   • GeForce 6800
   • GeForce 7800
   • Radeon X800/X850
   • Radeon X1800/X1900