AOpen Aeolus FX 5900 XT review -
Page 14 - Serious Sam SE
SE is very much like the Quake3 engine in the terms of OpenGL
Serious Sam is powered by 'Serious engine' featuring state of the art
- Both complex indoor and outdoor scenes in one engine,
- Multiple direction gravity,
- Advanced LOD for loads of enemies at the same time,
- Directional light for daylight scenes,
- Portals and mirrors,
- Truly dynamic volumetric fog and haze,
- Both skinned and multi-part models combined,
- Hyper-texturing and hyper-mapping for life-like richly detailed environments,
- High polygon count multi-resolution meshes,
- Photo-realistic lens flares with real-time lens reflections,
- Advanced particle system,
- Procedural textures (water, fire, smoke,
plasma , electricity), - Photo-realistic reflections, specularity and bumps,
Right, let's take a look at the performance that we measured with Serious Sam the Second encounter.
Serious Sam SE | 800x600 | 1024x768 | 1280x1024 | 1600x1200 |
Creative R9600 | 100 | 77 | 52 | 33 |
9600 256 | 105 | 79 | 54 | 34 |
9600 Pro | 112 | 98 | 72 | 48 |
FX 5600 | 121 | 109 | 76 | 53 |
FX 5700 | 121 | 115 | 86 | 60 |
FX 5700 Ultra | 123 | 122 | 100 | 74 |
9700 Pro | 113 | 111 | 96 | 75 |
9800 Pro | 113 | 112 | 101 | 84 |
9800 XT | 113 | 112 | 103 | 88 |
FX 5900 XT | 124 | 124 | 117 | 98 |
FX 5900 Ultra | 125 | 124 | 120 | 107 |
FX 5950 Ultra | 125 | 126 | 120 | 108 |
Again the card produces excellent numbers in this test, even at 1600x1200x32 resolution where it does a very decent framerate with quality settings enabled.
4xAA 8xAF | 800x600 | 1024x768 | 1280x1024 | 1600x1200 |
Creative R9600 | 81 | 55 | 37 | 19 |
9600 256 | 84 | 57 | 38 | 22 |
9600 Pro | 99 | 76 | 52 | 31 |
FX 5600 | 88 | 59 | 37 | 23 |
FX 5700 | 101 | 71 | 46 | 31 |
470/710 | 108 | 82 | 54 | 37 |
FX 5700 Ultra | 111 | 80 | 53 | 37 |
9700 Pro | 113 | 100 | 77 | 55 |
FX 5900 XT | 118 | 106 | 78 | 55 |
9800 Pro | 115 | 105 | 85 | 63 |
440/800 | 118 | 113 | 88 | 63 |
FX 5900 Ultra | 122 | 112 | 89 | 65 |
9800 XT | 114 | 108 | 89 | 68 |
FX 5950 Ultra | 122 | 114 | 92 | 68 |
The product we will review today is the new NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT. I say new because it's fresh in the Quarter 4 lineup from NVIDIA. BTW NVIDIA, copycatting is not really a nice thing, the XT obviously has been chosen to compete with the Radeon 9x00 XT series of graphics cards.