Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup - Part 2: High End Shootout
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on October 7, 2003 5:30 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness Performance no AA
Since we are looking at percent decrease in performance with PS2.0, we should be able to get a good idea of how each card responds to the PS2.0 code in the game. I know everyone will want to take these numbers and say that they universally describe the DX9 performance hit on NVIDIA hardware, but we have had plenty of other benchmarks today that show very different results. In the end, so much of performance comes down to how the game was coded, and what is actually going on. Without further ado:
From this we can see that ATIs performance doesn't drop as much as NVIDIAs when PS2.0 is enabled. These are some very interesting numbers even though they have come out as we expected them too. Essentially, what these numbers have done is eliminated many of the outside factors that could have contributed to poor performance and focused on the PS2.0 code alone. We can now clearly see what everyone suspected: ATI handles rendering PS2.0 effects much more efficiently than NVIDIAs cards in TRAOD. Please remember that the context of the previous sentence is completely dependant on the inclusion of the final prepositional phrase.
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Anonymous User - Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - link
yea I agree with what #3 said..hardly any commentary on the IQ... and If I'm not mistaken, aren't the new cats going to be out tomorrow???? If so, you might as well do the whole thing over again...Anonymous User - Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - link
#3, go away you fanboy. There was absolutely no IQ difference between the CAT 3.7 and 52.14 drivers.Anonymous User - Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - link
i'm sure intel will be happy to hear that you 'upgraded' your prescott to an FX.dvinnen - Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - link
errr, a lot of the piture links aren't wrking, like teh halo iq one and TR:AoDAnonymous User - Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - link
Um...Why was there nothing noting the difference between nVidia and ATI's in the IQ section? nVidia looks absolutely horrid compared to the ATI.
AgaBooga - Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - link
I saw more opinions in this article leaning towards Nvidia, especially around the Tomb Raider benchmarks. More specifically, starting with the page regarding compilers. I liked this articles, but there could have been less opinionated viewpoints on this. Also, it might be better if we get names of authors with what they typed, so we know who typed what, because some of this sure didn't sound like something Mr. Shimpi has written in the past...Anonymous User - Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - link
i'm still reading..............