The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The game looks much worse without HDR (although this is an arguable point), so we test it with enabled FP HDR.

We’ve got the same thing again: the GeForce 8800 GTX ensures a comfortable level of performance in every resolution, but the GeForce 8800 Ultra proves to be faster still. The standard model and the XFX version enjoy an advantage of 7% and 11%, respectively, at 1920x1200. This is not a critical advantage, yet having a higher speed can’t be bad. Let’s check out the open scenes of the Oblivion world which are more difficult for the graphics card to deal with.

Here, the overclocked GeForce 8800 Ultra provides a 10% growth in the average frame rate. The minimum speed is increased by an impressive 34% which may come in handy in graphically complex scenes because the 30 frames per second provided by the GeForce 8800 GTX is barely above the minimum comfortable level while 38-41fps is a certain reserve of speed.