Far Cry

The Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS is ahead of the Radeon X1800 GTO in every resolution except for 1920x1200 where they are equals. When overclocked to 580/850 (1700) MHz frequencies, the GeForce 7900 GS leaves the Radeon X1950 Pro behind in the two lowest resolutions. But in the widescreen 1920x1200 resolution the ATI card delivers the same performance at its default frequencies as the overclocked GeForce 7900 GS does.

The Radeon X1950 Pro feels even better on the Research map where the overclocked GeForce 7900 GS can outperform it in 1280x1024 resolution only and by a small margin, too. The fact is the pixel shader performance of the GPU is more important here than anything else, and the Radeon X1950 Pro with its 36 pixel processors can deliver it.

The difference between the cut-down GeForce 7900 GS and the GeForce 7900 GT is not felt strong in the HDR mode. The memory subsystem performance the two cards are equals in seems to be the limiting factor here. The Radeon X1950 Pro easily beats the non-overclocked GeForce 7900 GS despite the imperfect implementation of FP16 HDR for ATI’s cards in the current version of Far Cry.

The Radeon X1800 GTO improves its position on the Research map, but otherwise there are no changes. The GeForce 7900 GS looks better than that old solution from ATI, but can compete with the Radeon X1950 Pro only at the overclocked frequencies.