Doom 3
takes advantage of the latest videocard technology and pushes the processing
power of the CPU to its absolute limit. At its highest setting, Ultra quality,
texture sizes pass the 500MB mark which means even tomorrow's videocards will
have a hard time running everything. The frame rates in the game itself are
locked at 60 fps so anything above that point is wasted. Each test is run three
times with the third run being recorded.
 ID Software Doom 3 1.3 |
| HQ 1024x768 |
FPS |
Ranking |
| Asus A8N-VM (GF 6150
200/400 939 FX-60 Onboard Video) |
8.2 |
   |
| Asus A8N-VM (GF 6150
200/400 939 FX-60 GF 8800GTS 320MB) |
122.7 |
|
| Albatron KM51PV-AM2
(GF 6150 200/800 AM2 X2 5000+ Onboard Video) |
8.9 |
|
| Albatron KM51PV-AM2
(GF 6150 200/800 AM2 X2 5000+ GF 8800GTS 320MB) |
142.6 |
|
| ECS AMD690GM-M2 (AMD
690G 200/800 Onboard Video) |
9.6 |
|
| ECS AMD690GM-M2 (AMD
690G 200/800 GF 8800GTS 320MB) |
141.5 |
|
| MSI K9AGM2-FIH (AMD
690G 200/800 Onboard Video) |
9.9 |
|
| MSI K9AGM2-FIH (AMD
690G 200/800 GF8800GTS 320MB) |
140.7 |
|
 Biostar TF7050-MM2 (GF7050 200/800 Onboard
Video) |
12.4 |
   |
| Biostar TF7050-M2 (GF7050 200/800 GF 8800GTS 320MB)
|
144.3 |
|
The onboard GeForce 7050 videocard scores 12.4 fps
compared to a score of 9.6 to 9.9 fps for the AMD 690G. Neither onboard
videocard solution is powerful enough to play Doom 3 in High Quality mode,
at a resolution of 1024x768. With a videocard installed, all platforms kick ass
when gaming in Windows Vista Ultimate!
 Sierra FEAR 1.08 |
Source: Sierra |
|
FEAR is
Sierra's latest first person shooter which relies heavily on DirectX 9 features.
With its "Soft Shadows" feature enabled, even the fastest videocards run at a
crawl, FEAR is definitely the new benchmark for future FPS games to
follow.
| Sierra FEAR 1.08 |
| 1024x768 |
FPS |
Ranking |
| Asus A8N-VM (GF 6150
200/400 939 FX-60 Onboard Video) |
4 |
|
| Asus A8N-VM (GF 6150
200/400 939 FX-60 GF 8800GTS 320MB) |
167 |
|
| Albatron KM51PV-AM2
(GF 6150 200/800 AM2 X2 5000+ Onboard Video) |
4 |
|
| Albatron KM51PV-AM2
(GF 6150 200/800 AM2 X2 5000+ GF 8800GTS 320MB) |
163 |
|
| ECS AMD690GM-M2 (AMD
690G 200/800 Onboard Video) |
3 |
|
| ECS AMD690GM-M2 (AMD
690G 200/800 GF 8800GTS 320MB) |
157 |
|
| MSI K9AGM2-FIH (AMD
690G 200/800 Onboard Video) |
4 |
|
| MSI K9AGM2-FIH (AMD
690G 200/800 GF8800GTS 320MB) |
160 |
|
| Biostar TF7050-MM2 (GF7050 200/800 Onboard
Video) |
5 |
|
| Biostar TF7050-M2 (GF7050 200/800 GF 8800GTS 320MB)
|
167 |
|
FEAR is utterly brutal on integrated videocards, it's
like trying to make your computer build robots to take over the world... it just
can't handle it. The results are quite evident from the reference list
above, suffice to say if you're really into gaming, install a GeForce
8800GTS 320MB videocard. Next up the final thoughts on nVIDIA's GeForce 7050PV
and the Biostar TF7050-M2
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