Performance in Simulators

IL-2 Sturmovik: Aces in the Sky

The new GeForce 6600 architecture with its eight pixel pipelines balances the high frequencies of the overclocked Extreme AX600 XT/HTVD in this game. When working at its default frequencies, the graphics card from ASUS has much humbler results.

The GeForce 6600 keeps its first place when full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering are enabled; the overclocked Extreme AX600 XT/HTVD is following it at a distance of 2fps.

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This flight simulator is complex from the geometrical standpoint, but has few pixel shaders. Modern graphics architecture like the GeForce 6600 has nowhere to apply itself here, but this card is anyway as fast as the ASUS. Overclocking the Extreme AX600 XT produces a nice performance gain. We should warn you about the capricious behavior of this game which can sometimes reset your graphics settings.

The GeForce 6600 and the ASUS Extreme AX600 XT have almost the same results. The overclocking gain of the ASUS card amounts to 25 percent!