The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Performance

Oblivion is quite a bit more variable than our other tests, and we like to give our numbers closer to a 5% margin of error here. This is important to remember as our overclocked EVGA 8800 GTX and the new 8800 Ultra trade places a couple times in our testing. To us, this says that the cards have roughly the same performance.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion




In fact, because our numbers were so close, we decided to take a look at performance with 16xAF and 4xAA enabled this time around as well. Again, we see about a 10% improvement from the stock 8800 GTX to the 8800 Ultra, and our EVGA card falls just on the margin of error border with the 8800 Ultra at the high end.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion




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  • redbone75 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

    You meant we will not "accept" them;)
  • redbone75 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

    But anywho, I completely agree with you. I just built a complete rig for a buddy of mine for barely more than that. And I mean, complete, he needed everything from monitor (Samsung 941BW) to keyboard and mouse and speakers(7.1). Core 2 Duo based (E6320 on a Gigabyte DS3, 2 gigs of Corsair DDR2 800, 320GB hdd, X1900 GT). All for under $1100 USD after rebates. Not a gaming rig for sure, but a respectable system nonetheless. Even if I had the money I wouldn't see any justification in buying an $830 card that offered only marginal gains over it's less expensive sibling.
  • kmmatney - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

    What do you mean not a gaming rig? You can game fine on that, the video card can handle native resolution for most games. I game with a slightly lesser system than that.
  • strikeback03 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

    If you buy a Ferrari and don't crash it, you can probably resell in 5 years for 80% or more of the cost new. Try that with a video card.
  • Sunrise089 - Thursday, May 3, 2007 - link

    Please look up exotic car prices. You will find you do NOT get an 80% return on anything other than a few tiny examples of cars that were generally unavailable at the time of their initial offerings. Also note that when you take advantage of the gouging to non-established customers of exotic cars, the depreciation will often be even more than adds would appear to indicate, as the orginal paid-for price may have been much higher than MSRP.
  • strikeback03 - Thursday, May 3, 2007 - link

    the "few tiny examples" are the ones that appreciate, such as the Enzo. If you were one of the 399 that bought one from the factory for around $650k, you now have a car worth over a million, and likely to keep heading up as dumb comedians crash them. Something relatively common though, such as a 355 from 10 years ago, is still worth over 50% of new (assuming you bought one through a dealer, not paid extra to get one immediately). Even NSXs from the early 90s are still worth $25-35k. And judging by the current market, even in 20-30 years, the Ferrari will still have some value because it is a Ferrari, independant of actual performance relative to current models. Any computer hardware, unless extremely limited production so that it is a collectors item, will be essentially worthless by the time it is 3 or 4 generations old.
  • coldpower27 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

    There is a difference in the pace of advancement between these 2 industries a new Ferrari from 2003 is not so much inferior compared to the Ferrari from 2008 perse.

    You can barely compare video cards that are 5 years apart. If the pace of advancement was slower video cards would hold their value longer as well.

  • ss284 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

    Voodoo 5 6000
  • swaaye - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

    Except that V5 6000 was never released to consumer retail and thus it's incredibly rare. So its value is just due to obscurity.
  • Samus - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link

    looks like teh sux0rs.

    unfortunately, ATI still doesn't have anything that can touch any of the 8800's :(

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