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Jedi Knight II |
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OpenGL Benchmark
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Jedi Knight receives a larger
performance gain, along the lines of 10 percent! At
1600x1200, that is nearly enough to catch the RADEON 9700
Pro, though the addition of anti-aliasing and anisotropic
filtering would likely favor the ATI card.
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AquaMark |
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The Last DirectX
8 Benchmark, We Promise |
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The most notable gain thus far
comes from running AquaMark at 1600x1200. The 21
percent increase puts the Ti 4600 just a few frames behind
ATI's powerful flagship - not bad for a mere driver
revision.
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Return To Castle Wolfenstein |
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...And The Last
OpenGL Test As Well |
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The Detonator 40's aren't able
to close the massive gap between the RADEON 9700 and the
Ti 4600, though NVIDIA's current leader does gain a scant
three percent.
It is certainly good to see
NVIDIA putting work into its drivers. Of course, we'd
much rather see NV30 or even a functional nForce2 board for
that matter. The new Detonator 40.41 drivers deliver
on what NVIDIA claims, though. Mainly, gamers get a
little extra performance and more business-oriented users
have a couple new features to increase productivity.
The inclusion of anisotropic filtering support has been long
overdue, but for the most part, the feature is still too
slow to be used at high resolutions. From a logistical
point of view, the new control panel is much easier to
navigate and should be very easy to adapt to. Now, if
only ATI could take a hint and simplify the myriad of
quality and performance settings cluttering the Catalyst
drivers...
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