HiS Excalibur Radeon 9600XT Turbo review

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Page 11 - RTCW

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
9600 256 129 121 93 58
9600 Pro 129 128 116 83
FX 5600 131 128 111 88
R9600XT 129 128 121 92
FX 5700 138 136 121 100
FX 5700 Ultra 139 139 131 114
9700 Pro 130 129 128 121
FX 5900 XT 131 131 130 122
9800 Pro 129 129 128 124
9800XT 128 128 127 125
FX 5900 Ultra 131 131 130 127
FX 5950 Ultra 131 131 130 127

The 9600 XT falls back even below the standard (non ultra) FX 5700, nonetheless 92 frames per second in 1600x1200 is really nothing to be ashamed about. Let's take a look with 4x anti aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering enabled.

4xAA 8xAF 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
9600 256 93 66 46 34
FX 5600 109 81 52 34
9600 Pro 115 89 63 46
FX 5700 120 99 69 50
R9600XT 121 101 73 52
FX 5700 Ultra 129 108 77 57
FX 5900 XT 124 115 95 69
9700 Pro 128 120 99 75
5900 Ultra 125 122 109 91
9800 Pro 128 124 108 86
9800 XT 127 125 113 92
FX 5950 Ultra 126 122 110 93
550/700 125 107 79 56

The results are good for a mid-end segment product, the graphics card still performs very good at 16x12, we believe.

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