Performance Hit in New Image Quality Modes

Of course, any image quality improvement cannot be free, so let’s take a closer look at the performance of RADEON X1800 XT in different quality modes.

As we can see, the performance of our hero in new FSAA and anisotropic filtering modes is quite up to the mark for comfortable gameplay. The only exception if Far Cry Pier level.

If you wish you may also compare the results of the new RADEON X1800 XT against the GeForce 7800 GTX tested in about the same conditions (for details see our article called NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX: New Architecture Exposed ), although we believe it is not quite correct to compare these two side by side.