ATI's X1000 Series: Extended Performance Testing

The Chronicles of Riddick Performance

We don't have as much data as we would like for The Chronicles of Riddick as it looks like the game itself checks the capabilities of our monitor before allowing a setting to be run. While the monitor that we use to test games at high resolutions is capable of running at up to 2048x1536, the data it reports to graphics cards is unreliable. NVIDIA and ATI allow for the ability to specify manually the limits of one's monitor, but in this case, the game goes straight to the flawed source. In any case, all these tests were run with the shader level set to 2.0.

With the data that we have, the high end NVIDIA cards absolutely dominate this benchmark. The 6800 GT even performs as well as the X1800 XT. The X850 XT keeps up with the X1800 XL, and the only surprise is that the X1600 XT performs the same as the 6600 GT. Once again, the playability of the X1300 Pro is limited to 1024x768.