ATI versus NVIDIA: Anno 1404 - Dawn of Discovery

Anno 1404 - Dawn of Discovery

So ever since the first Anno series was launched many years ago, I have been playing this excellent RTS. Heck, I had a ton of fun with the original game series like Anno 1602 and 1701. If you're unfamiliar with the Anno series of games, they have all been (1404 is the 3rd sequel) colony-builders that take place in vast archipelagos filled with pirates, natives, treasures, and rival colonies. Typically, players start with a single ship packed with essential goods with which they colonize a single island, and then need to expand their realm.

For our test with Anno 1404 we enable everything and we enable the highest possible setting, and render the game in DirectX 10 mode with 4x Anti-Aliasing enabled.

Anno 1404 has been a title very much in favor of ATI graphics cards. The multi-GPU scaling on both brands is phenomenal alright. Roughly 1.9x for NVIDIA in the highest resolution and as you can see, ATI leads a bit at 1280x1024.