Performance in First Person 3D Shooters

Call of Duty

Call of Duty is one of the simplest games we employ in our tests; it uses pixel shaders only to render the water surface. The game prefers graphics cards from ATI Technologies, although the ASUS card has to share the top position with the GeForce 6600 whose eight pixel pipelines and a more advanced architecture counterweigh its low clock rates. The excellent overclocking (for a RADEON X600-based card) allows the ASUS to become an absolute winner, though.

With enabled full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, the Extreme AX600 XT/HTVD wins resolutions above 1024x768 even at its default frequencies. Overclocking is effective here.

Doom III

Doom 3 needs no descriptions, we guess. As you should know from our earlier reports, this game favors NVIDIA’s architectures, so the first place of the GeForce 6600 is an expected outcome.

The same goes for the d3dm4 multiplayer map, but the absolute fps rates are higher here due to the absence of monsters.