NVIDIA GeForceFX 5600 Ultra & FX 5200 Ultra: Performance

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Serious Sam: Second Encounter

Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Unanswered Questions
Page 3: Test Setup
Page 4: Benchmarks
Page 5: Antalus Botmatch
Page 6: Splinter Cell
Page 7: Splinter Cell Minimum FPS, Continued
Page 8: Aquanox
Page 9: Serious Sam: Second Encounter
Page 10: Serious Sam: Second Encounter Minimum FPS, Continued
Page 11: 3D Mark 2001 SE
Page 12: 3D Mark 2001 Detail Tests
Page 13: Fillrate Multi Texturing
Page 14: Vertex Shader Speed
Page 15: Pixel Shader Speed
Page 16: 3D Mark 2003
Page 17: 3D Mark 2003 Detail Tests
Page 18: Fillrate Tests
Page 19: Shader Tests
Page 20: Codecreatures
Page 21: Codecreatures Avg. # Of Polygons, Continued
Page 22: Image Quality
Page 23: 8x Anisotropic Filtering
Page 24: UT 2003: 8x Aniso Performance
Page 25: 4x FSAA + 8x Anisotropic Filtering
Page 26: UT 2003: 4x FSAA & 8x Aniso Performance
Page 27: Conclusion

Serious Sam: Second Encounter

The NVIDIA cards had to be set to 24 bit Z-Buffer. If this hadn't been done, SS:SE would only run in 16 bit with the NVIDIA cards, while ATi cards would run with 24 bit.

Again, it becomes apparent that Serious Sam is NVIDIA's territory. Initially, the FX 5600 can hold its own against the 9500 PRO, but it falls increasingly behind as the resolution increases. Once more, the 4200 is faster. The 5200 Ultra closes in on the 9500 cards again. Very interesting - the 9000 PRO boards beat the 9500 boards! This implies once again that ATi might have specific driver problems in this game.