Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup Part I - ATI's Radeon 9800 XT

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

This entire game is actually downloadable off the internet. We downloaded the replay we used from 3dcenter.de (radar.dm_82), and ran it as a timedemo.

All the NVIDIA cards seemed to stick together and perform about the same, and with the exception of the leading 9800XT, ATI cards performed about the same as eachother as well.

In looking at these tests, Wolfenstein seems to be a little more CPU bound that GPU bound, but we will definitely find out in one of our coming articles just how true that is. In this case, turning on AA/AF shifts the leadership of the pack away from ATI to NVIDIA.