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Posted: July 25, 2003 Written By: Dan "Tweak Monkey" Kennedy Manufacturer: Sapphire  Comanche 4 Demo - Direct3D Testing To test Direct3D performance, we ran Novalogic's Comanche 4 demo.  The Pentium IV 2.0 GHz CPU definitely shows its age here. CPU is a major factor in the frame rates on both cards at lower resolutions. The GeForce3 Ti500 still takes a pretty sizeable hit with FSAA enabled, though.  Again, the CPU is a limiting factor with the Sapphire card. Notice there is almost no performance hit when FSAA 4x is enabled at 1600x1200 on the 9800 Pro. The GeForce3 Ti500 is slowed down majorly by this setting. 3DMark03 - Direct3D DX9.0a Testing Since no games really utilize DirectX 9.0a yet, we had to use 3DMark03, a purpose-built benchmark program to test the DX9 performance of the cards. While not exactly a fair comparison, it demonstrated interesting results.  The Sapphire card ran nearly every test perfectly with FSAA disabled. The GeForce3 Ti500 chunked along at virtually every complicated scene. With FSAA enabled, the GeForce3 became a slideshow, where the Sapphire card still ran pretty well. While using a program designed specifically for benchmarking is somewhat unfair, the numbers indicate how smooth this ran on the Sapphire card vs. the NVIDIA card. |
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