Lock On: Modern Air Combat

The N6600 GT/TD performs better than the RADEON 9800 XT in Lock On, but overclocking doesn’t give any substantial gains, seemingly because of the very low frame rates all the participating graphics cards produce in this game.

Quite surprisingly, the N6600 GT/TD even outdid the GeForce 6800 GT here! Overclocking adds next to nothing to the ASUS card. We want to remind you about the capricious behavior of Lock On – the numbers should be regarded as nothing more but approximations.

Colin McRae Rally 2005

The new Colin McRae Rally makes a good use of pixel shaders and, according to the diagrams, the RADEON X800 PRO with the RADEON 9800 XT go unrivalled through this test. The ASUS N6600 GT/TD sinks to the last place when it works at its default frequencies. At the overclocked frequencies it is faster than the GeForce 6800 and comes close to the GeForce 6800 GT in high resolutions.

It’s different with full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering: although the RADEON X800 PRO with its advanced memory controller remains on top, the RADEON 9800 XT slows down considerably and has almost the same result as the overclocked N6600 GT/TD. At its default frequencies the N6600 GT/TD is almost as fast as the GeForce 6800.