NV 8800 GTS 640MB DX9 Results (cont’d)
Now we’ll take a look at Jeremy’s results using the 1280×960 resolution – I am sure you could guess that performance is going to drop below the levels we’d like to play at.
Well here is a bit of surprise! Given the margin of error on these Fraps tests it looks like the move from 1024×768 to 1280×960 didn’t have much affect without AA enabled. The 8800 GTS 640MB card appears to have the same amount of power with the extra pixels; until AA is actually turned on. When that happens, we see the average frame rates drop to 18.6 and 14.5 – these are obviously not playable settings for any user.
Turning the IQ settings up to High in the game drops performance as we had expected – the move from 1024×768 to 1280×960 causes a 36% drop in average frame rate at these levels. Even without AA we are getting an average FPS under 30 with the lows in the mid-teens and enabling 8xAA or 8xQ AA at this point improves the quality but moves the game closer to a slide show than anything else.
Well here is a bit of surprise! Given the margin of error on these Fraps tests it looks like the move from 1024×768 to 1280×960 didn’t have much affect without AA enabled. The 8800 GTS 640MB card appears to have the same amount of power with the extra pixels; until AA is actually turned on. When that happens, we see the average frame rates drop to 18.6 and 14.5 – these are obviously not playable settings for any user.
Turning the IQ settings up to High in the game drops performance as we had expected – the move from 1024×768 to 1280×960 causes a 36% drop in average frame rate at these levels. Even without AA we are getting an average FPS under 30 with the lows in the mid-teens and enabling 8xAA or 8xQ AA at this point improves the quality but moves the game closer to a slide show than anything else.
