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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra and GeForce 6800: NV40 Enters the Scene (page 23)

Category: Video

by Tim Tscheblockov , Alexey Stepin , Anton Shilov

[ 04/14/2004 | 01:48 AM ]

3D First-Person Shooters

RTCW: Enemy Territory

This game is no problem for top-end graphics cards like the ones included into this review – the results are greatly impeded by the performance of the central processor. However, you may see that the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and the RADEON 9800 XT slow down in higher resolutions, while the GeForce 6800 Ultra goes through all the modes at the same speed.

Anisotropic filtering (AF) and full-screen antialiasing (FSAA) are resource-consuming features, but less so for the new GPU from NVIDIA: it is faster than the competitors by a half in the lowest resolution and in double in the highest resolution. The overclocking of the GeForce 6800 Ultra only brings some effect in the highest resolution.