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Black & White 2
Black & White 2 has traditionally been tough on Nvidia graphics cards. The GeForce 7900GTX in SLI takes the win here, but a single Radeon X1900XTX does very well against all of the cards and configurations. This is where this title and future games that incorporate heavy pixel shader requirements on a graphics card will show the strength of extra pixel shaders per traditional pipeline. It is also where we may see the strength of a future unified shader core that can dedicate more pixel shaders to tasks needing them. Nvidia needs to address this title with better driver optimizations.
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