The Last Bout of ‘03 – NVIDIA’s GeForce FX 5700 Ultra
by Derek Wilson on October 23, 2003 9:30 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
SimCity 4 Performance no AA/AF
We are hoping that we will find a better way to benchmark SimCity 4, as the way we are doing so at present has some issues. When we scroll to the edge of the world, ATIs cards shoot up to over 250fps, while NVIDIAs cards hit a more moderate maximum in the mid 70s. In looking at our data right now, we can see that the instantaneous low framerates for all the NVIDIA cards hovered around 64 fps, while ATIs cards dropped to the mid 50's. Due to this fact, we are counting this benchmark a draw.
SimCity 4 Performance 4xAA/8xAF
When we turn on AA, the 9800 XT and the 9600 XT are able to maintain low framerates of about 58, while the NVIDIA cards only hit 38. We feel the high frame rates are skewing the data more than they should, but when AA/AF is turned on, ATIs cards definitly pull out in front.
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Anonymous User - Thursday, October 23, 2003 - link
Anand reviews are complete BS. Hardocp and even Tomshardware show the exact opposite of everything this review says. And as for the IQ comparison, complete and utter bullshit. Hardocp found visual differences in just about EVERY game out there, and actually gave FULLSCREEN UNCOMPRESSED screenshots, unlike Anand's tiny jpg's that didnt even include any information about filtering quality, none of them included the ground! GJ Anand, next time when you tell me there is no image quality differences, show me fullscreen shots of EVERY gameAnonymous User - Thursday, October 23, 2003 - link
Nvidia still cheating via lowering image quality/effects - why are you selling out and not at least letting your readers know about it now? Check out some of the image quality cheats in hardocp's review - very lame nvidia.wingless - Tuesday, August 25, 2015 - link
How far we've come. The phone is my pocket is more powerful.loki1944 - Tuesday, October 13, 2020 - link
The missing benchmarks are a real shame.