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ASUS N6600 GT/TD Graphics Card Review (page 11)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin

[ 05/13/2005 | 09:23 AM ]

Performance in Third Person 3D Shooters

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow is usually somewhat faster on graphics cards with GPUs from ATI Technologies. Even the overclocked N6600 GT/TD cannot come close to the results of the RADEON 9800 XT.

This game doesn’t support full-screen anti-aliasing correctly so we don’t publish the results for the “eye candy” mode. We also want to remind you that Splinter Cell doesn’t have any means to benchmark the performance of the graphics card, so we perform our tests manually, with the FRAPS utility. This method has an inherent inaccuracy in itself.

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

The N6600 GT/TD cannot claim the first place among eight-pipelined solutions in this 3D third-person shooter, either, although overclocking helps to reduce the gap between it and the RADEON 9800 XT from 15% to 5-6%. This game is tested manually, too, so the numbers should be regarded as approximations.