NVIDIA GeForceFX: Brute Force Attack Against the King

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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.

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Hardware
Test systemAMD Athlon XP 2700+ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (nForce 2)
Memory2 x 256 MB, PC 333 (2/2/2/5)
Drivers & Software
Graphics DriverNVIDIA - v. 42.63ATI - v. 03a (6.14.01.6255)
DirectX Version on system9
OSWindows XP Professional SP1
Benchmarks & Settings
AquanoxRetail Version v1.17
Max PayneRetail Version v1.05
UT 2003 FullRetail Version v2166
Jedi Knight II v1.03Benchmark using 'jk2ffa'
Serious Sam 2Retail Version v1.07(Demo: Valley of the Jaguar)
3D Mark 2001 SEPro Version, Build 330
Comanche 4Demo v1.0.1.18
CodecreaturesPRO Benchmark v1.0.0
PowerVR Villagemarkv1.17
Matrox Sharkmarkv1.0
Spec Viewperfv7