Performance in RPG

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

Neither high-quality anisotropic filtering, nor the absence of trilinear filtering optimizations affect performance significantly and with recent driver tweaks, Nvidia hardware is still noticeably ahead of ATI’s.

Meanwhile, in the outdoor scenes of Oblivion filtering quality does affect performance pretty tangibly. As a result of that, judging by minimal and average FPS, we would say that ATI’s Radeon X1950 XTX is a preferable choice compared to the GeForce 7950 GX2.

Titan Quest

Titan Quest is another new game that demonstrates dependency on the quality of texture filtering: ATI’s high-quality anisotropic filtering costs the Radeon X1950 XTX over 15% of performance, whereas Nvidia’s product loses 47% of speed in 1920x1200 resolution without trilinear filtering optimizations. Under new settings ATI’s Radeon X1950 XTX is up to 20% ahead of the rival.