Unreal Tournament 2003

An extremely popular game which provides good real world results. Using the [H]ard|OCP benchmarking tool allows for a standard test bench. The results shown are from the Antalus, Inferno and Citadel benchmarks with AA/AF on and off at 1024x768, 1280x1024.

Unreal Tournament has to one of the more popular LAN games around. With that said the FX5600P performs excellantly in this real world test. Allowing you to run 4AA8AF at 1024x768 and still giving you around 60FPS is excellant. Even at higher resolutions the game is still fully playable with no AA/AF. Interesting to note the difference between 2AA/8AF and 4AA/8AF compared to the difference between 4AA/8AF and 6AA/8AF and how the performance drops greatly when 6 time anti-aliasing is turned on.

Jedi Knight 2

Based upon a highly modified Quake 3 engine, Jedi Knight 2 is another popular game.

Once again the FX5600P shows that it can run your favorite games with 4AA/8AF enabled with full usabilty. Strangely the results for 6AA8AF in this benchmark were higher than that of 2AA/8AF so they were disregarded in the results. Also interesting to note the large difference again once you turn the anti-aliasing up past 4.

Splinter Cell

UbiSoft's very enjoyable 3rd person stealth based game is next on the test bench. I used Beyond3d's demo to test the performance.

Splinter Cell is a very challenging game both for video cards and for the gamers playing it. As we see in this benchmark the FX5600P just does not have enough to play Splinter Cell smoothly at full detail. Graphics setting will have to be lowered to play the game smoothly. This isn't really good seeing as Splinter Cell is one of the newer games released now and is a good look at what future games will have to offer.

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