FX 5900 Ultra vs. R9800 Pro - Benchmarking Part 3
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Manufacturer: | nVidia / ATi |
| Product: | GF FX 5900 Ultra vs. Radeon 9800 Pro |
Price: | USD $499 $399 |
Written By: | SPeeD |
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra vs. Radeon 9800 Pro
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Benchmarks Continued
Comanche 4
As mentioned previously in the BFG GF FX 5900 Ultra review, this is probably the last time I will be using Comanche 4 as a benchmarking tool. Quite simply it is more CPU intensive than a video card benchmark should be, the engine is antiquated, it does little to show off the capabilities of the newer cards, yet it still produces relatively low framerates. Still, we see the 9800 Pro here win out easily in the 1280 x 1024 category but the FX 5900 Ultra makes a comeback at 1600 x 1200.
SPECviewperf 7.0
SPEC ViewPerf is an OpenGL benchmark program that measures your card in a professional workstation environment using several different viewsets. Looking for a more detailed explanation? Here is a quote from the programmers.
"SPECviewperf™ is a portable OpenGL performance benchmark program written in C. It was developed by IBM. Later updates and significant contributions were made by SGI, Digital (Compaq, HP), 3Dlabs (Creative Labs) and other SPECopcSM project group members. SPECviewperf provides a vast amount of flexibility in benchmarking OpenGL performance. Currently, the program runs on most implementations of UNIX, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Linux."
AA and AF were disabled for this review to give a more true representation of how the cards would perform. The cards go back and forth in this OpenGL benchmark and there seems to be no clear winner. Take what you will from it.
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