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Nasgul · 10-12-07

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Final Thoughts

I am as excited as anyone about the coming days playing a little UT3 action; it's a fast paced shooter that has a style all its own. And it looks like more users are going to find their systems capable of playing it than we originally thought. Epic has done a great job making the game engine scalable across a wide range of systems.

That being said, if you want to blow away your senses and get the top image quality settings with that super-smooth frame rate we all desire, then NVIDIA's 8800 GTX card is the way to go. Our hours of gaming with it were sheer joy and I have no problems calling it the best graphics card for Unreal Tournament 3, period. Runners up include AMD's HD 2900 XT and NVIDIA's 8800 GTS cards, both the 640MB and 320MB versions. This is one of the few times that AMD can claim the HD 2900 XT can consistently outperform the 8800 GTS card, and the fact that it is in a huge title like UT3 is good news. The mid-range cards we tested, the NV 8600 GTS and AMD 2600 XT, provided acceptable game play experiences even though they were noticeably slower than the other four cards.

As far as performance goes on NVIDIA and AMD cards -- the final decision will probably take weeks or months to pan out as neither NVIDIA nor AMD had the demo at the time I first received it. So no one has had time to add in the tweaks and fixes in their drivers for the UT3 demo and I wouldn't be surprised to see beta drivers from both camps in the coming week.

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid...e=expert&pid=1

TnB= Gir · 10-12-07

Yay ATi makin a slight comeback! I hope that ATi really beats nVidia's a** in the upcoming release of the 2950's. Maybe if ATi wins this, then nVidia will feel the need to release a new high end card. They haven't really had a reason to release a card better than an ultra so far.

jonny1989 · 10-12-07

EDITE my bad it was the 8600.

MAP:Shinri La

640MB

2560x1600:26min,43max,34avg.
1600x1200:44min,63max,59avg

320MB
2048x1536:31min,57max,44avg
1600x1200:38min,63max,59avg

MAP:Heat Ray

640MB
1600x1200:42min,63max,59avg
2560x1600:20min,47max,34avg

320MB
1600x1200:43min,63max,59avg
2048x1536:30min,62max,48avg

Even thought the res is a little different on the realy high res setting its still not 50-100$ different.I almost feal sorry for people that bought the 640MB.Im sure that if they did the 320MBs just a tiny bit higher at 2560x1600 the two cards would put out the same or at least very close.the 1600x1200 scores are almost the same.

Murlocke · 10-12-07

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LOL did you see how bad the 8800GTS 320MB beat the 640MB at 2048x1536.It looks like the 640MB is realy better for lower res not higher.

.............I don't see ANY test where they paired the 320MB and the 640MB 8800GTS together on the same map. You are confusing it with the 8600GTS.

Kris88 · 10-12-07

Ya ok, cause we play at 2048x1536 with a GTS............

xenophobe · 10-12-07

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Originally Posted by jonny1989

LOL did you see how bad the 8800GTS 320MB beat the 640MB at 2048x1536.It looks like the 640MB is realy better for lower res not higher.

Umm.... The 8800 GTs 640 wasn't part of the test. It was the 8600 that got smoked by the 8800.

Outcasst · 10-12-07

How come none of the cards can get over 63fps?

jonny1989 · 10-12-07

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Originally Posted by Outcasst

How come none of the cards can get over 63fps?

V sync I think.

azapcap · 10-14-07

the game is capped at 60, but wth;

i just got the demo, smooth 60 all the way; 1280, max settings.

*NuclearCrap* · 10-14-07

I don't think Vsync is a good idea for comparisons......but according to the minimum FPS it's pretty much the same old boring story with most other games: 8800GTS < 2900XT < 8800GTX

The mid-range battle was interesting though. HD 2600XT finally aims for 8600GTS and strikes!

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