Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Performance
If there's only one benchmark you read about, let it be this one. Our 7800 GS was tested with SM3.0 enabled and all the options while the X850 XT PE does not support these features.
The price the 7800 GS pays for enabling HDR and other SM3.0 eye candy is that it is limited in playability to lower resolutions. Disabling the SM3.0 features would give performance quite a boost without AA (SM3.0 features are not available with AA enabled).
This indicates that the X850 XT PE performs better with AA under SC3 than the 7800 GS. But the performance numbers that we ran can't be easily compared without AA. We wanted to look at performance with the features that people would likely enable, and Splinter Cell certainly looks great with all the bells and whistles.
If there's only one benchmark you read about, let it be this one. Our 7800 GS was tested with SM3.0 enabled and all the options while the X850 XT PE does not support these features.
The price the 7800 GS pays for enabling HDR and other SM3.0 eye candy is that it is limited in playability to lower resolutions. Disabling the SM3.0 features would give performance quite a boost without AA (SM3.0 features are not available with AA enabled).
This indicates that the X850 XT PE performs better with AA under SC3 than the 7800 GS. But the performance numbers that we ran can't be easily compared without AA. We wanted to look at performance with the features that people would likely enable, and Splinter Cell certainly looks great with all the bells and whistles.
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artifex - Thursday, February 2, 2006 - link
Maybe; do those chips come with DIPs? :)
Cygni - Thursday, February 2, 2006 - link
Beat me to it. :DDerekWilson - Thursday, February 2, 2006 - link
Gotta love those crazy typos that OpenOffice.org doesn't catch for me. Fixed.