CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Features of the videocards
3. Configurations of testbeds, test tools
4. Synthetic tests in D3D RightMark
5. Test results: Quake3 ARENA
6. Test results: Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
7. Test results: Return to Castle Wolfenstein
8. Test results: Code Creatures DEMO
9. Test results: Unreal Tournament 2003
10. Test results: Unreal II: The Awakening
11. Test results: RightMark 3D
12. Test results: TRAOD
13. Test results: FarCry (performance and quality)
14. Test results: Call Of Duty
15. Test results: HALO: Combat Evolved
16. Test results: Half-Life2(beta)
17. Test results: Splinter Cell
18. Test results: Colin Mcrae Rally04 (performance and quality)
19. Test results: Max Payne-2 (performance and quality)
20. Test results: Painkiller (performance and quality)
21. Test results: Need For Speed: Underground (performance and quality)
22. Test results: Pirates of the Carribean (quality)
23. Test results: Vietcong (quality)
24. Test results: 3DMark03-Game1
25. Test results: 3DMark03-Game2
26. Test results: 3DMark03-Game3
27. Test results: 3DMark03-Game4
28. Test results: 3DMark03-MARKS
29. Test results: AquaMark3
30. Driver NVIDIA version 61.11
31. Conclusions

Unreal Tournament 2003

The lightest mode (no AA or anisotropy): X800 XT wins, 450 MHz can't save NV40. Insufficient bandwidth plays an increasingly dramatic role for such card.

The heaviest mode (both AA and anisotropy): X800 XT wins easily, 450 MHz only narrowed the gap a little.

Thus:

• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 450MHz vs. ATI RADEON X800 XT: the latter wins.
• NVIDIA version 61.11 vs. 60.72: no differences.

Unreal II: The Awakening

The lightest mode (no AA or anisotropy): NV40 has a slim victory.

The heaviest mode (both AA and anisotropy): vice versa, X800 XT has a slim victory.

Thus:

• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 450MHz vs. ATI RADEON X800 XT: a slim NV40 victory in the light mode and a loss in the heavy one. In total, a parity.
• NVIDIA version 61.11 vs. 60.72: no differences.

RightMark 3D

The lightest mode (no AA or anisotropy): NV40 has a solid victory.

The heaviest mode (both AA and anisotropy): X800 XT wins in some places. On the whole, a parity (taking into account 450 MHz).

Thus:

• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 450MHz vs. ATI RADEON X800 XT: a solid NV40 victory in the light mode and a parity in the heavy one.
• NVIDIA version 61.11 vs. 60.72: virtually no differences.

TR:AoD, Paris5_4 DEMO

NV40 is defeated in all the modes, 450 MHz couldn't help it.

Thus:

• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 450MHz vs. ATI RADEON X800 XT: the latter wins.
• NVIDIA version 61.11 vs. 60.72 — an insignificant 3-percent speed gain in the pure mode and a colossal 40-percent increase in AA+AF.

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