nForce4: PCI Express and SLI for Athlon 64

DX8 and OpenGL Gaming Performance

It is amazing to see Quake 3, one of our oldest benchmarks, perform extremely well on the PCIe video card. Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the other OpenGL benchmark, also performs better on PCIe, but not to the extent of Quake 3.

Another real surprise in the PCIe performance results was X2, a DX8 game that is heavily dependent on Transform and Lighting effects. PCIe results were significantly higher than AGP scores.

Other DX8 results were a wash comparing AGP and PCIe results on the FX53.