S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

The game doesn’t support FSAA when you enable the dynamic lighting model, but loses much of its visual appeal with the static model. So, we benchmarked the cards in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. using anisotropic filtering only.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is the second instance in our today’s tests when the increased frequencies of the GeForce 8800 Ultra bring you a tangible profit, although not as big as in F.E.A.R. Extraction Point . Here, this additional speed won’t be superfluous even in 1600x1200, especially when you play the game on the XFX GeForce 8800 Ultra Extreme. We don’t say that you won’t have comfortable gameplay on the GeForce 8800 GTX, yet the GeForce 8800 Ultra can give you somewhat more confidence in the Zone.

Note that the Radeon HD 2900 XT performs poorly despite the use of AMD Catalyst 7.5. It is still slower than the ex-flagship Radeon X1950 XTX.