gainward geforce fx 5900 ultra 256mb golden sample

Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell patch 1.2 adds benchmark functionality to the game. The benchmark plays back a timedemo with a choice of 3 levels. 2 on the Tbilisi level and one on the Kalinatek level. Each of our tests was run using the maximum in game detail and no Geforce specific extensions/effects were used in order to obtain accurate and comparable results across all cards.

As Splinter Cell does not correctly implement Anti Aliasing on Nvidia or ATI cards AA was not used for this test.

5900U 0xAA 0xAF			9800P 0xAA 0xAF
RESOLUTION	MAP NAME	AVERAGE FPS	RESOLUTION	MAP NAME	AVERAGE FPS
1024x768	1_1_1Tbilisi	47.645505	1024x768	1_1_1Tbilisi	49.289697
1280x1024	1_1_1Tbilisi	44.202962	1280x1024	1_1_1Tbilisi	43.085826
1600x1200	1_1_1Tbilisi	38.116524	1600x1200	1_1_1Tbilisi	37.970615
1024x768	1_1_2Tbilisi	46.700206	1024x768	1_1_2Tbilisi	40.708342
1280x1024	1_1_2Tbilisi	39.809007	1280x1024	1_1_2Tbilisi	35.266973
1600x1200	1_1_2Tbilisi	35.712889	1600x1200	1_1_2Tbilisi	32.554501
1024x768	2_2_1_Kalinatek	47.414759	1024x768	2_2_1_Kalinatek	48.49358
1280x1024	2_2_1_Kalinatek	46.053451	1280x1024	2_2_1_Kalinatek	44.641673
1600x1200	2_2_1_Kalinatek	43.268218	1600x1200	2_2_1_Kalinatek	40.71736

With the Splinter Cell benchmark we see our first convincing win for the FX. It is ahead of the Radeon 9800 Pro in all but two of the tests with no AA/AF. The maximum lead was 4fps for the FX

5900U 0xAA 8xAF			9800P 0xAA 8xAF
RESOLUTION	MAP NAME	AVERAGE FPS	RESOLUTION	MAP NAME	AVERAGE FPS
1024x768	1_1_1Tbilisi	45.104517	1024x768	1_1_1Tbilisi	47.087613
1280x1024	1_1_1Tbilisi	39.730652	1280x1024	1_1_1Tbilisi	39.439488
1600x1200	1_1_1Tbilisi	33.628954	1600x1200	1_1_1Tbilisi	34.83708
1024x768	1_1_2Tbilisi	38.879859	1024x768	1_1_2Tbilisi	39.276891
1280x1024	1_1_2Tbilisi	34.557953	1280x1024	1_1_2Tbilisi	32.233892
1600x1200	1_1_2Tbilisi	30.534531	1600x1200	1_1_2Tbilisi	29.929072
1024x768	2_2_1_Kalinatek	44.573789	1024x768	2_2_1_Kalinatek	48.221505
1280x1024	2_2_1_Kalinatek	37.415697	1280x1024	2_2_1_Kalinatek	39.564214
1600x1200	2_2_1_Kalinatek	30.228662	1600x1200	2_2_1_Kalinatek	34.590746

When 8xAF is applied the results are reversed and this time the Radeon wins all but 3 tests. The maximum difference between the two was 4fps in favour of the Radeon.

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