NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: It's Here, but is it Good?

The Test

Since the focus of this review is the performance of the two fastest desktop GPUs there are a few assumptions we can make, the biggest being that you don't buy a card like the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra to run without Anti-Aliasing or Anisotropic Filtering enabled. For this reason the vast majority of our benchmarks will be focused on the performance with AA/AF enabled, but we will include an abridged set of numbers without those features turned on to be as complete as possible.