Deus Ex 2: Invisible War

Deus Ex 2 is based on the modified Unreal Tournament engine using DirectX 8 vertex and pixel shaders that is why all graphics cards appear in equal testing conditions here.

All in all, ATI based graphics cards outperform their competitors on NVIDIA chips. The results obtained in Deus Ex are mostly determined by the fillrate and pixel shaders processing speed, that is why overclocking the graphics chip provides a more significant performance boost than overclocking the graphics memory. The biggest performance increase was obtained on NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE and ATI RADEON 9600, which graphics cores overclocked best of all.

It is remarkable that GeForce 4 Ti4200-8x performs just brilliantly here running as fast as NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra. In fact, this is not at all surprising: although GeForce 4 Ti4200-8x works at lower clock frequency than GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, it boasts two TMUs per pipeline while the latter features only one texturing unit per pipeline. Therefore, since they have 4 pipelines each, the maximum theoretical texturing speed of GeForce 4 Ti4200-8x turns out higher.