Performance in Strategy Games

Age of Empires 3

This game’s speed depends more on how fast pixel shaders are executed, yet the texturing speed is important, too. The game’s shaders seem to have multiple texture lookups, just like in Serious Sam . This is why the GeForce 7800 GTX 512 is on top and the Radeon X1900 XT finds itself behind the modest GeForce 7800 GTX in low resolutions. The ASUS EAX1800 XT TOP does well in comparison with the standard card, especially in the “eye candy” mode, but it is only in 1024x768 that it can reach the level of the Radeon X1900 XT.