Far Cry

The only hardware struggling here is the single 6800 GT. Far Cry has always performed nicely on ATI hardware, but the 7800 GTX does a great job nonetheless. The performance of the lone Albatron 7800 GTX is near the performance levels of the 6800 GT in SLI mode, which is a great achievement.

Image quality, in our opinion, is a little better on the 7800 GTX than the X850 PE. Gameplay performance itself was similar, and at 1600x1200 4xAA/16xAF, the game was very playable.

Unreal Tournament 2004

The extra horsepower of SLI puts the 6800 GT on top of the other cards, though the single Albatron 7800 GTX puts it a close second.

A single 6800 GT is more than enough to keep the game playable, but one server I was on (with a 75ms ping) normally has about 30 players or so, and there were a few occasions where the 6800 GT wasn't enough (hitting sub-20fps every half minute or so). The SLI mode, as well as the X850 and 7800 GTX were much better as the central areas where players tend to congregate didn't cause any dips below 40fps.

Half-Life 2 (1600x1200, 4xAA/16xAF)

	Min	Max	Ave
Albatron 7800 GTX	46	133	84.6
ATI X850 XT	42	115	74.8
NV 6800 GT	30	100	58.6
NV 6800 GT SLI	42	112	66.1

This game needs no introduction, as anyone who picked up a $500 video card in the last year probably did so for this. On the D3_C17_12 map (Follow Freeman), the Albatron 7800 GTX is the clear winner here. The game ran smoothly, with no drastic drops in framerates. At least, none that affected gameplay. The X850 PE performed similarly, but the 6800 GT in single and SLI were unable to keep up. The 6800 GT had a lot of problems in single mode, but given it's half the price of the 7800 GTX, that has to be kept in consideration.

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