Max Payne
When Max Payne was released, many found some of the features employed by it very nice. The graphics of this game were very good, with many textures being very highly detailed. Lets look at how the MSI GF4MX performs in this game, using the benchmark made by 3D Game Center. First we will look at 1024*768 without AA or Ansio
| Video Card |
Minimum FPS |
Average FPS |
Max FPS |
| Parhelia: |
24 |
46.71 |
85 |
| MSI 8888 (405/729) |
29 |
52.27 |
86 |
| MSI 8888 (Stock) |
21 |
41.90 |
85 |
Even at this resolution the MSI card is definitely GPU limited, as the increase in core/memory speed nets a 24% improvement in raw frame rates. The MSI card has some higher peaks than the other cards, as well as some other areas with much higher frame rates compared to the other two cards. We can also see that the MSI doesn't seem to have a problem with a particularly intensive area (71-80 seconds), perhaps at this point the memory efficiency is kicking in as most of the polygons are hidden behind the doorway. In any case we see the MSI card lose to the Parhelia at stock speeds, and beating the Parhelia by the same margin at overclocked settings.
| Video Card |
Minimum FPS |
Average FPS |
Max FPS |
| Parhelia: |
18 |
35.25 |
65 |
| MSI 8888 (405/729) |
7 |
17.54 |
39 |
| MSI 8888 (Stock) |
4 |
12.50 |
30 |
Just like the other games when AA and Ansio is enabled the MSI card takes a nosedive in performance. Even when overclocked the MSI card only has about half the average frame rate of the Parhelia. Looking solely at the MSI graphs we see something interesting, in seconds 30-40, the non-overclocked card has a higher frame rate than the overclocked card, where in all other parts of the test the overclocked card performs as good as or better than at its stock settings. In fact at these settings the MSI card is almost completely GPU limited as it gets a 40% improvement in frame rate over stock settings.
| Video Card |
Minimum FPS |
Average FPS |
Max FPS |
| Parhelia: |
10 |
27.23 |
56 |
| MSI 8888 (405/729) |
12 |
29.44 |
80 |
| MSI 8888 (Stock) |
8 |
21.80 |
57 |
We can see here as with most of the other tests that the MSI card outperforms the Parhelia when overclocked, by about 2fps. We notice that apart from the final 10 seconds of the test both the overclocked MSI card and the Parhelia perform about the same, give or take a frame here or there. When at standard speeds the MSI card doesn't perform very well, giving a average frame rate of 21.80 with lows that are under 10fps. Overall this resolution might be playable with the overclocked MSI card and on the outside the Parhelia, but at stock speeds the MSI card isn't playable at this resolution.
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