Performance in First-Person 3D Shooters

Battlefield 2

We managed to disable the speed limiter in this game to objectively compare the performance of today’s top-end graphics cards. As you can see, the ASUS Extreme N7800GT is capable of competing with the RADEON X1800 XL in the “pure speed” mode but not at the “eye candy” settings when ATI’s new devices reveal their main trump, the memory controller with the RingBus architecture, and meet no competition, except from the SLI configuration based on two Extreme N7800GT. Overclocking lifts the performance of the ASUS card up almost to the level of the more advanced GeForce 7800 GTX.