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PowerColor X1950 Pro Extreme Graphics Card: Sacred Silence (page 11)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 12/19/2006 | 03:39 PM ]

Quake 4

The cards take the same places as in the previous test, but deliver higher performance in general. Almost all the included cards allow playing with comfort in 1280x1024 with enabled 4x FSAA. The GeForce 7600 GT with only 12 pixel processors, 8 ROPs and a 128-bit memory bus is an exception as it belongs to a lower product category than the rest of the tested graphics cards.

Serious Sam 2

You need a graphics card with 512MB of memory on board to get acceptable performance in Serious Sam 2 at the highest graphics quality settings. The graphics cards in this test all have 256MB of memory and their performance is low. Note, however, that the GeForce 7900 GS has the best minimum of speed but also the worst average frame rate due to its 20 TMUs. It’s because the game makes wide use of shaders with multiple texture lookups.