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ASUS AX800 XT/TVD Graphics Card Review (page 7)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin

[ 11/04/2004 | 11:05 AM ]

Far Cry

The GeForce 6800 Ultra wins the low resolution of this game, but is overtaken by the ASUS AX800 XT in 1280x1024. Overclocking helps little to the latter in this race.

Well suited to perform full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, the ASUS card suddenly rushes ahead. The effect from overclocking is small again – almost lost against the absolute speeds that reach as high as 87fps.

The main combatants – ASUS AX800 XT and GeForce 6800 Ultra – have practically the same results on the Research level, although the scene is different here than the one recorded on the Pier level.

There’s nothing new or extraordinary in the eye candy mode. The R420 architecture, more efficient under such conditions, helps the AX800 XT to leave the GeForce 6800 Ultra far behind. Moreover, even the 12-pipelined RADEON X800 PRO shows a performance comparable to that of the top-end cards on NVIDIA’s chips. The 12-pipelined solution from NVIDIA evidently lacks fast memory.