Performance in Gaming Tests: Third-Person 3D Shooters

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Although there are a lot of pixel shaders in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory , the GeForce 7900 GTX is hardly any faster than the GeForce 7800 GTX 512 and they are both behind the Radeon X1900 XTX beginning from 1280x1024 resolution. There must be something in the architecture of the G70 and G71 chips to produce such results; the performance of the GeForce 7900 GTX is somewhat limited by its lower memory frequency, too.

The GeForce 7900 GTX SLI offers a smaller speed reserve than the Radeon X1900 XT CrossFire platform does due to an obvious reason: the latter has 96 pixel processors in total against the Nvidia solution’s 48. The SLI platform offers a barely playable frame rate in the 8x SLI AA mode, while the Radeon X1900 XT CrossFire offers more than enough speed then.