Performance in First-Person 3D Shooters

Battlefield 2

The recently released GeForce 7900 GTX has shattered the previously unrivalled dominance of the Radeon X1900 XTX except where an efficient and fast graphics memory subsystem is crucial for the overall result (such cases are full-screen antialiasing in high resolutions or extremely high, above 4x, levels of antialiasing).

The hero of this review is still unrivalled in this test and it enjoys a 15% lead over the GeForce 7900 GTX in 1600x1200. The average performance is over 100fps in this case, so even the most demanding gamer won’t be left unsatisfied.

The Chronicles of Riddick

Even if the GeForce 7900 GTX didn’t exist, the GeCube Radeon X1900 XTX would still lose this round to the GeForce 7800 GTX 512. So, the GeCube is 15% slower than the GeForce 7900 GTX in every resolution – Nvidia’s card boasts a much more efficient OpenGL driver and can process two times more Z-values per clock cycle which helps a lot at rendering stencil shadows. The resolution of 1600x1200 is hardly available to owners of the GeCube Radeon X1900 XTX although the average performance is quite close to comfortable for this game genre.