Unreal Tournament 2004

The latest version of Unreal Tournament cannot be considered as a demanding new-generation game. All modern top-end graphics cards show a similar performance in this test, being limited by the performance of the system’s CPU. The diagram above confirms this fact, at least for an Intel Pentium 4 560 processor.

There’s no big difference in the eye candy mode, either, save for 1600x1200 resolution where the RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition reaches the performance ceiling imposed by the CPU, while the GeForce 6800 GT seems to fall short of it.

The Metallurgy level is less CPU-dependent, so mainstream cards like the RADEON X700 XT and GeForce 6600 GT have worse results in 1600x1200.

With full-screen antialiasing and anisotropic filtering enabled, the RADEON X800/X850 cards are ahead of the GeForce 6800, but this is still only noticeable in 1600x1200.