Legit Video Card Reviews
XFX and Palit GeForce 9800 GTX Video Cards
| Manufacturer: | XFX |
| Product: | GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB Video Cards |
| Date: | Tue, Apr 01, 2008 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl uses the 'X-ray Engine' to power the graphics. It is a DirectX 8/9 Shader Model 3.0 graphics engine. Up to a million polygons can be on-screen at any one time, which makes it one of the more impressive engines on the market today. The engine features HDR rendering, parallax and normal mapping, soft shadows, widescreen support, weather effects and day/night cycles. As with other engines that utilize deferred shading (such as Unreal Engine 3 and CryENGINE2), the X-ray Engine does not support anti-aliasing with dynamic lighting enabled. However, a "fake" form of anti-aliasing can be enabled with the static lighting option; this format utilizes a technique to blur the image to give the false impression of anti-aliasing. The game takes place in a thirty square kilometer area, and both the outside and inside of this area is rendered to the same amount of detail.
The game was benchmarked with full dynamic lighting and maximum quality settings at 1920x1200 and 1280x1024 resolutions.
Benchmark Results: The XFX GeForce 9800 GTX wasn't able to keep up with the XFX GeForce 8800 GTX in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., which is a shock. Remember both video cards used ForceWare 174.74 drivers and were tested on the same system with identical settings.
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Page 1 - NVIDIA Introduces The GeForce 9800 GTX
Page 2 - GeForce 9800 GTX Features Page 3 - Under The GeForce 9800 GTX Heat Spreader Page 4 - Palit GeForce 9800 GTX Box & Bundle Page 5 - XFX GeForce 9800 GTX Box & Bundle Page 6 - The Test System Page 7 - Tomb Raider: Anniversary Page 8 - Company of Heroes Page 9 - World in Conflict Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Page 11 - BioShock Page 12 - Crysis Page 13 - Call of Duty 4 Page 14 - 3DMark 2006 Page 15 - Lightsmark 2007 Page 16 - Temperatures Page 17 - Overclocking Page 18 - Power Consumption and Final Thoughts |
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