First Person Shooters are always used in graphics card reviews and there will be no change here. Until Doom3 and Half-life 2 hit the streets later this year Unreal Tournament 2003’s engine is the most demanding FPS engine out there. That combined with its inbuilt benchmarking utility makes it a great choice to show how the 9800 Pro performs in today’s games.

As with the other benchmarks the results between the two cards are very similar at lower settings:

1024x768 0xAA 0xAF 256mb

1024x768 0xAA 0xAF 128mb

As the resolution and settings increase so does the gap in performance though it should be noted both cards retained very high fps.

1280x960 4xAA 16xAF 256mb	1280X960 4xAA 16xAF 128mb
1600X1200 2xAA 8xAF 256mb	1600X1200 2xAA 8xAF 128mb

 

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