NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512: More Than Just More Memory
by Derek Wilson on November 14, 2005 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Battlefield 2 Performance
Battlefield 2 is still one of the best (and best looking) of the games to come out over the past six months. Popular with just about everyone who can stand to play a first person shooter, and stressful on hardware at the same time, Battlefield 2 is an important game on our list of tests. We use a custom demo and the DICE supplied demo.cmd (modified to suit our needs) in order to benchmark this game. We also manually compute the average framerate based on the useful frames in timedemo_frametimes file rather than relying on the (flawed) summary output. Unfortunately we seem to have some problems testing SLI using this setup, so we have omitted SLI results for this title.
As we can see in our tests without AA, the 7800 GTX is locked in a dead heat with the X1800 XT, and the 7800 GTX 512 simply dominates both by more than 30%. This is a huge win for NVIDIA's new part given the popularity of this game.
Battlefield 2 is still one of the best (and best looking) of the games to come out over the past six months. Popular with just about everyone who can stand to play a first person shooter, and stressful on hardware at the same time, Battlefield 2 is an important game on our list of tests. We use a custom demo and the DICE supplied demo.cmd (modified to suit our needs) in order to benchmark this game. We also manually compute the average framerate based on the useful frames in timedemo_frametimes file rather than relying on the (flawed) summary output. Unfortunately we seem to have some problems testing SLI using this setup, so we have omitted SLI results for this title.
As we can see in our tests without AA, the 7800 GTX is locked in a dead heat with the X1800 XT, and the 7800 GTX 512 simply dominates both by more than 30%. This is a huge win for NVIDIA's new part given the popularity of this game.
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ElFenix - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link
i've been asking them to hire an editor for a few years now, but i'm pretty sure they haven't taken my advice yet. every once in a while they post an article that is just unreadable due to the run on and compound sentences.yacoub - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link
It's worse when you have a journalism degree. It drives you up a wall to read so many grammatical and spelling errors. Even so I'd rather they put the money into doing more 'real world' style tests instead of just these Top of the Charts/ GPU with the Biggest Dick contests.phusg - Thursday, November 17, 2005 - link
It could be worse, at least they updated the article to change this comical spelling mistake. Puts them in line with the rest of the computer industry where the testing phase of the development cycle is outsourced to the consumer ;-)Methusela - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link
This thing just destroys every other single card, and every other SLI configuration in almost every test! Yikes. I guess it had better do so at $700 apiece, though.Maybe this will push the price of the 7800GT and GTX models down in a couple of weeks? Cost-conscious buyers like myself can only hope so.
route66 - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link
Sick!Googer - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link
Holy Handgranades 54.4 GB/s Memory Bandwith!pol II - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link
Nice card