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

Pirates of the Carribean

I didn't try to measure performance in this game, but it was interesting to compare the qualities, especially considering the amount of complaints about the way various cards work in this application. As we see, the rivals showed identical qualities with no artefacts.

QUALITY ISSUES
GeForce 6800 Ultra	RADEON X800 XT

Vietcong

The results are simlar to the previous ones: no difference between R420 and NV40.

QUALITY ISSUES
GeForce 6800 Ultra	RADEON X800 XT

3DMark03 - Game1

The lightest mode (no AA or anisotropy): NV40 wins.

The heaviest mode (both AA and anisotropy): NV40 loses with 400 MHz and equalises with the help of 450 MHz.

Thus:

• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 450MHz vs. ATI RADEON X800 XT: roughly, a parity.
• NVIDIA 61.11 vs. 60.72: virtually no difference.

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