Performance in Simulators

Colin McRae Rally 2005

This racing simulator used to run faster on graphics cards designed by ATI Technologies, but since the RADEON X8 and GeForce 6 architectures were replaced with the RADEON X1000 and GeForce 7, the game’s favor shifted towards NVIDIA’s solutions because the RADEON X1000 series is oriented at executing very complex pixel shaders – to the detriment of everything else. But such shaders just do not occur here. Well anyway, the Sapphire RADEON X1800 XL is a little faster than the GeForce 7800 GT in the “eye candy” mode – thanks to the new memory controller.