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DirectX 10 Games vs. Contemporary Graphics Accelerators (page 9)Category: Video by Anton Shilov , Alexey Stepin [ 08/23/2007 | 11:03 AM ] Mainstream Solutions PerformanceThe following graphics cards, with a recommended price of $149 and higher, belong with this class:
These graphics cards are not for enthusiasts so we benchmarked their performance without FSAA, limiting ourselves to the maximum level of anisotropic filtering. We also added another test mode, with minimum graphics quality settings. Call of JuarezBeing in fact one third and one fourth of their top-end mates, the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4 and the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS deliver appropriate speeds, which are too low for playing the DirectX 10 version of Call of Juarez on these cards.
Note that the Radeon HD 2600 XT offers two times the speed of the more expensive GeForce 8600 GTS in this test. It may be a lucky accident or an indication of better performance of the AMD card in DirectX 10 applications. We’ll check this out in the other tests. <%BANNER[banner_468x30]%>
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Category NewsCategory: Video Friday, July 25, 200812:31 pm Channel Vendors Demand Graphics Cards Suppliers to Recall Potentially Faulty Nvidia GeForce Graphics Cards. Resellers Want to Return Potentially Faulty Nvidia GeForce Graphics Boards to Makers Thursday, July 17, 20085:48 am Microsoft Preps to Unveil DirectX 11 Features in Several Days. ATI, Nvidia, Microsoft to Discuss DirectX 11 Techniques at XNA, Siggraph Wednesday, July 16, 200812:30 pm New Generation ATI Radeon for Mainstream, Mobile Markets are Ready. PCI-SIG Approves ATI RV730, M98-L, M96 Graphics Chips 7:22 am EVGA and XFX Reimburse Price Difference on GeForce GTX 200 after Price Collapse. EVGA and XFX to Return Money to GeForce GTX 200 Purchasers Tuesday, July 15, 20084:23 pm Startup Promises to Revolutionize Multi-GPU Technology Early Next Year. LucidLogix Unveils Hydra Distributed Processing Engine All Latest News <%BANNER[right_130x130_1]%>
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