Performance in Gaming Tests: Simulators

Pacific Fighters

The Pacific Fighters engine was originally developed with the GeForce 6/7 architecture in mind. For example, the game requires vertex texturing for the maximum quality of the water surface. Graphics cards on ATI Technologies’ GPUs have always been slower in this game than Nvidia’s, and this test session doesn’t contradict our earlier experience.

Having a higher scene fill rate, the GeForce 7900 GTX leaves the GeForce 7800 GTX 512 far behind and makes the resolution of 1600x1200 available for comfortable play with such conveniences as 4x FSAA and 16x anisotropic filtering. Owners of two GeForce 7900 GTX cards will even be able to use 16x SLI AA: an average speed of 67fps with a minimum of 38fps is quite enough.