NVIDIA GeForceFX: Brute Force Attack Against the King

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Theoretical Benchmarks

Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The GeForceFX GPU, Continued
Page 3: The GeForceFX GPU, Continued
Page 4: The Card
Page 5: The Cooler
Page 6: The Cooler, Continued
Page 7: The Cooler, Continued
Page 8: The Performance
Page 9: Gaming Benchmarks
Page 10: Unreal Tournament 2003 Botmatch
Page 11: 3D Mark 2001 SE
Page 12: Serious Sam 2 Z-Buffer Problems
Page 13: Serious Sam 2 Z-Buffer Problems, Continued
Page 14: Aquanox
Page 15: Jedi Knight II
Page 16: Max Payne
Page 17: Comanche 4
Page 18: Codecreatures
Page 19: 3D Application Benchmarks
Page 20: Quality Benchmarks
Page 21: Serious Sam 2
Page 22: 8x Anisotopic
Page 23: Serious Sam 2
Page 24: 4x FSAA & 8x Anisotopic
Page 25: Serious Sam 2
Page 26: Theoretical Benchmarks
Page 27: Vertex Shader - Matrox Sharkmark
Page 28: Fillrate Single Texturing
Page 29: Vertex Shader Speed
Page 30: Conclusion

Theoretical Benchmarks

Overdraw - Villagemark

Villagemark was used by PowerVR to show the advantages of tiled rendering architecture. With this type of 3D chip, objects that are covered by other triangles are not rendered, thereby saving on bandwidth. Both NVIDIA and ATI have built similar mechanisms in their 3D chips. Villagemark is a good test of how effective overdraw prevention is in the cards. At 1024x768, Villagemark unfortunately gave an incorrect result for the GeForceFX - 0 fps. It would have been all too obvious if this result had been correct.