NVIDIA GeForceFX: Brute Force Attack Against the King

The Performance

Let's get down to the tests. Because there are no games on the market yet that can make use of DirectX9 capabilities, we're left focusing on DirectX8/ 8.1 games.

We put together an extensive repertoire of benchmarks and games in order to make a comparison between the FX 5800, the GeForce4 Ti4800 and the ATI Radeon 9700 PRO. In addition to the simple standard tests, we've also tested the performance in anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, as well as a combination of the two.

Our test platform consisted of an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard (nForce2) and an Athlon XP 2700+ with 512 MB RAM under Windows XP.