Creative Labs 3D Blaster 5 FX5900 Review

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Powered with a highly optimized Quake III engine, high detail settings and of course a heavy time-demo to get test results will will now use this software.

Powered by the Quake III Arena engine, the Wolfenstein universe explodes with the kind of epic environments, A.I., firepower and cinematic effects that only a game created by true masters can deliver. The dark reich's closing in. The time to act is now. Evil prevails when good men do nothing.

a highly decorated Army Ranger recruited into the Office of Secret Actions (OSA) tasked with escaping and then returning to Castle Wolfenstein in an attempt to thwart Heinrich Himmler's occult and genetic experiments. Himmler believes himself to be a reincarnation of a 10th century dark prince, Henry the Fowler, also known as Heinrich. Through genetic engineering and the harnessing of occult powers, Himmler hopes to raise an unstoppable army to level the Allies once and for all.

That being said, RTCW boasts very nice textures, impressive effects and fantastic character models. At this point not many videocards have been included in this specific comparison, there will be when time passes of course.

RTCW 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
9600 256 129 121 93 58
9600 Pro 129 128 116 83
FX 5600 131 128 111 88
FX 5700 Ultra 139 139 131 114
9700 Pro 130 129 128 121
5900 130 130 129 122
Blaster5 FX5900 131 131 130 122
9800 Pro HIS 129 129 128 124
FX 5900 Ultra 131 131 130 127
FX 5950 Ultra 131 131 130 127

Again, we can see some really nice numbers. Although marginal, the 5950 stays ahead of them all, yet compared to it's older brother the 5900 Ultra, the difference is nothing. Creative's 5900 is again doing really impressive numbers as it's equal to the 9800 Pro. Let's observe the score with quality settings.

RTCW 4xAA 8xAF 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
9600 256 93 66 46 34
9600 Pro 115 89 63 46
FX 5600 109 81 52 34
FX 5700 Ultra 129 108 77 57
FX 5900 124 116 96 69
Blaster5 FX5900 124 116 96 69
443/788 126 120 103 75
9700 Pro 128 120 99 75
5900 Ultra 125 122 109 91
9800 Pro HIS 128 124 108 86
FX 5950 Ultra 126 122 110 93

Again really good performance, the 5950 Ultra remains on top of the list and again, the 5700 Ultra is a hoot with such quality settings and the 5900 is in-between them, with a resolution of 1600x1200 it still manages to push out 69 frames per second. If you don't believe in memory bandwidth limitation, have a look at the overclock results, nice.

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