Jedi Knight II

Jedi Knight II is a little more CPU limited than video card limited, but make no mistake, a fast video card is required if you still want good framerates at high resolutions and all the effects turned on.

Jedi Knight II @ 1024, Max Detail

Jedi Knight II @ 1280, Max Detail

The FX5600 Ultra makes a strong stand here, besting the 9600 Pro with no AA/AF, and 2xAA/8xAF. There is one thing that is in the FIC A96P's favour thought, and that's the performance at higher AA/AF levels. Looking at 1024, we see only a 10fps loss when AA is set at 8x and AF at 16x. If you look back at our XFX 5600 Pro review, you can see that performance drops drastically on the XFX as we increase AA/AF.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein @ 1024x768

Powered by the Quake 3 Engine, like Jedi Knight 2, it is heavily modified. We used the Checkpoint demo, which is loaded with explosions and multiplayer action.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein @ 1280x1024

As with our past Radeon and FX reviews, the FX seems to always be outmatched by comparible Radeon hardware. It isn't really close here, as we can see the clear winner.

Splinter Cell

New to our test bench is UbiSoft's 3rd person action game, Splinter Cell. We used the , and ran the cards through the gamut.

Splinter Cell @ 1024, Max Detail

Well, I guess we know which is the stronger mid-range card for Splinter Cell. Even at 1280x1024, the dip for the FIC A96P isn't that bad.