Far Cry Benchies: 5950u vs 9800xt

[CaiNaM]

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[thenerdguy]

hmmm I wonder why they didnt talk about the game crashing on the ati test?????????

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: thenerdguy
hmmm I wonder why they didnt talk about the game crashing on the ati test?????????

I don't have a problem with Far Cry on my ATI cards. 9600 Pro and 9800 NonPro.

 

[cindy22]

hmmm I wonder why they didnt talk about the game crashing on the ati test?????????

that's funny farcry demo's runny fast and stable on my ati 9800 pro with 4aa/8af!

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Nice find CaiNaM!
Imagine if they tested that game with 4aa/8af ! then the gap will be much bigger !

but I wonder why digit-life always use little or no aa/af in the majority of their benchmarks?
I thought all games like farcry with nvidia logo in it supposed to show nvidia's power but instead they usually run much better on ati, specially using aa/af!

 

[Ackmed]

Originally posted by: cindy22

hmmm I wonder why they didnt talk about the game crashing on the ati test?????????

that's funny farcry demo's runny fast and stable on my ati 9800 pro with 4aa/8af!

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Nice find CaiNaM!
Imagine if they tested that game with 4aa/8af ! then the gap will be much bigger !

but I wonder why digit-life always use little or no aa/af in the majority of their benchmarks?
I thought all games like farcry with nvidia logo in it supposed to show nvidia's power but instead they usually run much better on ati, specially using aa/af!

Because the AA/AF is borked in the demo. The gap when AA/AF is used is HUGE, in my experience.

 

[cindy22]

Because the AA/AF is borked in the demo. The gap when AA/AF is used is HUGE, in my experience.

Ackmed - which drivers were you using? aa/af works on mine using catalyst 3.7 drivers , with 4aa/8af in rare ocasions it would go down to around 25-30fps , but usually I would get average 40 fps

 

[Genx87]

it says right in the review it doesnt work cindy22 lol

 

[VIAN]

Well, it worked with my 5900 with 53.03, so I don't know what they is talking about. Only problem was some flickering textures.

 

[nRollo]

Those framerates make me wish for better video cards.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: thenerdguy
hmmm I wonder why they didnt talk about the game crashing on the ati test?????????

no problems here

 

[kylebisme]

me neither.

 

[Blastman]

You can get AA/AF working in Farcry beyond3d

The NV cards are defaulting to ps1.1. When ps2.0 is forced on NV cards the performance drop is huge.

 

[BFG10K]

I wonder which card the parrot picked? 😛

When ps2.0 is forced on NV cards the performance drop is huge.

So ATi running under PS 2.0 is still faster than nVidia running under PS 1.x. Wow.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Blastman
You can get AA/AF working in Farcry beyond3d

The NV cards are defaulting to ps1.1. When ps2.0 is forced on NV cards the performance drop is huge.

that PS2.0 performance is painful...

 

[Todd33]

Man, I really wish I could see a difference btween PS1.1 and PS2.0. I remember the days of Bi-linera filtering on/off was the big thing, then you could see a feature.

 

[Pete]

More Far Cry benches, this time between a 9600XT and 5900XT. The 5900XT is still the better buy, but its performance in newer games seems to tend towards lower rather than faster than comparable ATi cards.

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: Todd33
Man, I really wish I could see a difference btween PS1.1 and PS2.0. I remember the days of Bi-linera filtering on/off was the big thing, then you could see a feature.

look at the bumpy-shiney pipes in the shots in the link.

nv ps1.1 < nv < ps 2.0 < ati ps2.0

as for why nv's ps2.0 isn't is nice as ati's ps2.0 in the shots, most likely nv ps 2.0 is fp16 partial precission where as ati obviously has to use fp24.

 

[klah]

http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/galaxy_zeus_5700_ultra/page_4.shtml

FARCRY BONUS COVERAGE

Gameplay tests were conducted on two systems:
* GeForce FX 5700 Ultra and Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of RAM
* GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and Athlon XP 3000+ with 1GB of RAM
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It is evident by the results that the FarCry demo is pushing both of these systems to the limit at the respective graphics settings. Even with high quality graphics settings at 1024x768 with no antialiasing and no anisotropic filtering, the game is barely playable on the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra. However, the image quality in FarCry using the low quality setting is quite good.

It appears as though FarCry will be the type of game that we have been craving to stress our high-end hardware.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: klah
http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/galaxy_zeus_5700_ultra/page_4.shtml

FARCRY BONUS COVERAGE

Gameplay tests were conducted on two systems:
* GeForce FX 5700 Ultra and Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of RAM
* GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and Athlon XP 3000+ with 1GB of RAM
....
It is evident by the results that the FarCry demo is pushing both of these systems to the limit at the respective graphics settings. Even with high quality graphics settings at 1024x768 with no antialiasing and no anisotropic filtering, the game is barely playable on the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra. However, the image quality in FarCry using the low quality setting is quite good.

It appears as though FarCry will be the type of game that we have been craving to stress our high-end hardware.

GFFX 5900U on a P42.8/533 ASUS P4P800 1GB PC2700 all at stock speeds (no o/c).
FarCry Demo set to 1024x768 all settings very high including highest AA setting. AVG FPS is around 42 HIGH FPS was 49 and lowest FPS was 31. I keep running it over and over again just to make sure its consistent. These are the best numbers I can give. While its still playable, its not anywhere near what I would like it to be.