Performance in Third-Person 3D Shooters

Hitman: Blood Money

There’s no talking about playing Hitman: Blood Money on these graphics cards with enabled 4x FSAA, even though you only need a frame rate of 40-45fps to play a third-person shooter comfortably. Here, it is only in 1920x1200 resolution that the GeForce 7900 GS is much slower than the Radeon X1950 Pro. In the lower resolutions the two cards are contending as equals. Note also the higher minimum of speed the Nvidia card provides.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

The GeForce 7900 GS isn’t as much better than the Radeon X1800 GTO as in the previous tests, yet its advantage amounts to about 10% here. It’s only at the overclocked frequencies that the Nvidia card can match the performance of the Radeon X1950 Pro.

Tomb Raider: Legend

The game’s Next Generation Content mode is too heavy for graphics cards like GeForce 7900 GT/GS or Radeon X1800 GTO/X1900 GT/ X1950 Pro. They are too slow in this mode with enabled full-screen antialiasing. However, the close collaboration of Nvidia with Eidos helps the GeForce 7900 GS perform in Tomb Raider: Legend almost as well as the new Radeon X1950 Pro does.