Piranesi Level, Pure Mode

Piranesi level involves a castle build in the 18^th century by Giovanni Piranesi. The demo represents an attack of special forces on terrorists demanding to plant a bomb in the stronghold. The soldier kills two gunmen inside the building.

The level is built in a way that puts more pressure on texturing units rather than on pixel or vertex shaders and this our demo is not that CPU dependent as the Havana demo. Fortunately, almost all graphics cards from our test can run this demo with sufficient speed in variety of resolutions.

If you take a look at the results in 1024x768 resolution, you will surely notice that the results seem to be affected by the power of the CPU, though, NVIIDA’s chips seem to be ahead of ATI’s chips, probably because of somewhat better drivers.

As the resolution grows, we see that NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 Ultra/GT as well as the GeForce 6600 GT offerings remain their leadership over ATI’s RADEON X800- and 9800- product lineups. The explanation for such behavior is not clear, but we suspect that this might be ATI’s drivers that are on the beta stage of testing by the company.