HIS Excalibur IceQ9800 Pro review

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Return to Castle Wolfenstein
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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
Radeon 9600 Pro 256 129 121 93 58
Radeon 9600 Pro 129 128 116 83
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 134 133 123 102
Radeon 9700 Pro 130 129 128 121
9800 Pro HIS 130 130 129 124
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 135 135 134 128
432/380 130 129 128 127

By definition the GeForce series always have been performing the best in this benchmark compared to the competitor ATI. Again this shows here. Recent drivers from ATI have been showing a big increase of performance though, and the difference is now marginal in the high-end range. Let's take a look with 4x anti aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering enabled.

4xAA 8xAF 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
Radeon 9600 Pro 256 93 66 46 34
Radeon 9600 Pro 115 89 63 46
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 119 95 64 45
Radeon 9700 Pro 128 120 99 75
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 129 123 101 81
9800 Pro HIS 128 124 108 86

With quality setting enabled the 9800 wins clearly, nice.

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