gainward geforce fx 5900 ultra 256mb golden sample

Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness is one of the few games on the market that takes advantage of directX 9 features such as Pixel Shader 2.0. For this benchmark we have created our own timedemo which forces the use of Pixel Shader 2.0 and uses the Paris 3 level.

	Settings	1024x768 0aa0af	1280x960 0aa0af	1600x1200 0aa0af
*Card*
5900 Ultra		40.2fps	22.7fps	14.4fps
9800 Pro		60.7 fps	42.5 fps	27.7 fps

A thoroughly convincing win for the Radeon in this test. Not much else can be said really, the results do all the talking.

Aquamark3 uses DirectX9 features such as Pixel Shader 2.0 and a real world game engine to allow users to test their system under heavy graphic load. Results can then be uploaded to an online database and compared to other users systems. The default benchmark runs at 1024x768x32 with no AntiAliasing and 4x Anisotropic filtering. Detail levels are set to maximum. The results of this test are displayed as frames per second, triangles per second and the main Aquamark3 TRISCORE. The TRISCORE shows the performance of your CPU and GPU and finally gives your overall score for the benchmark. As Aquamark is not prone to other processes affecting the scores it provides reliable and comparable results.

	TRISCORE	FPS
9800 Pro	37,938	37.9
5900 Ultra	31,868	31.9

Again in this benchmark which uses Pixel Shader 2.0 the Radeon is well ahead of the Geforce FX.

1600x1200x32 2xAA 2xAF	FPS
9800 Pro	24.97
5900 Ultra	17.87

A similar gap in performance at the maximum resolution and settings, the Radeon is 7fps ahead.

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