Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell

The results of all the cards are identical here as they are all limited by the speed of the system’s central processor.

The ATI RADEON X850/X800 cards shoot ahead in higher resolutions thanks to their advanced memory controller, technologies for an efficient use of the available memory bandwidth and the traditionally “fast” FSAA method. Yet we still see no profit from the new RADEON X800 XL’s 512MB of onboard memory.

When the highest quality modes are activated, the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 cards fall far behind their competitors that are traditionally better at extreme loads. Well, there are no downright low results here, while the extra 256MB of memory on board the RADEON X800 XL 512MB remain unused.