Test Systems

System Setup

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800

ASUS P5W DH Deluxe (for ATI systems)
ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe (for NVIDIA systems)

2GB Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB
ATI Radeon X1900 XTX
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB
ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB
Catalyst 6.8

BFG GeForce 7950 GX2
Driver version ForceWare 91.45

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
Driver version ForceWare 91.33

250GB Maxtor Hard Drive Maxline III SATA Hard Drive w/16MB Cache

Windows XP Professional SP2

DirectX 9.0c

Benchmarks

Pacific Fighters 4.04 (with Perfect landscape setting for ATI and NVIDIA)
Half-Life 2 Lost Coast
Far Cry 1.33 (1.4 patch for ATI cards)
F.E.A.R. 1.07
Quake 4 1.2
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Battlefield 2 1.3
Lock On: Modern Air Combat
Call of Duty 2 1.2
Note: All adaptive AA benchmarks were taken with ATI's supersampling mode "quality", while transparency AA benchmarks were conducted with NVIDIA's supersampling mode as well. 6xAA performance was conducted with adaptive AA turned on also.