Performance in First-Person 3D Shooters

Call of Duty: United Offensive

NVIDIA’s card features a more advanced architecture and relies on a more efficient OpenGL driver, but its memory bus is narrow, only 128 bits wide. That’s why this card is ahead of the RADEON 9800 XT in low resolutions and a little behind it in high ones. The gap is a negligible 2 frames per second in 1600x1200, though.

The memory subsystem is dragging the GeForce 6600 GT AGP down in the “eye candy” mode, although this card is faster than the RADEON 9800 XT in 1024x768 resolution.