XFX GeForce 9800 GT 512MB XXX Edition

Written by Harry Butler

February 5, 2009 | 08:26

Tags: #8800gt #8800-gt #benchmark #benchmarks #geforce #performance #tested #testing

Companies: #nvidia #xfx

Far Cry 2

Publisher: Ubisoft

Far Cry 2 is the latest first person shooter from Ubisoft and it's one of the most hotly-anticipated games of this year. While it continues the Far Cry franchise that Crytek started in 2004, Far Cry 2 is built on its own in-house engine and has no association to anything Crytek has worked on or is working on now.

The game uses DirectX 10.1 to improve anti-aliasing performance and quality. The improvements are made by reading the multisampled depth buffer in a single pass - something that was only introduced officially with DirectX 10.1. However, Ubisoft has also made the enhancements available to Nvidia hardware as well through a DirectX 10 extension.

We used the game's built-in benchmarking tool to measure performance in DirectX 9.0 mode - this provided a pretty accurate rundown of how various graphics cards perform and it shows off a lot of the game's special effects. We set every option to medium quality and tested at 1,280 x 1,024 and 1,680 x 1,050 with various anti-aliasing settings.

We left anisotropic filtering disabled in the driver control panel.

XFX GeForce 9800 GT 512MB XXX Edition Far Cry 2 - DirectX 9.0

Far Cry 2

1,280 x 1,024 0xAA 0xAF, DirectX 9, Medium Detail

  • ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB
  • XFX GeForce 9800 GT 512MB XXX Edition
  • Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 512MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB
    • 72.0
    • 51.0
    • 68.6
    • 49.0
    • 65.3
    • 49.0
    • 64.2
    • 49.0
    • 61.5
    • 47.0
    • 59.7
    • 47.0
    • 58.9
    • 47.0
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Frames Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Far Cry 2

1,280 x 1,024 2xAA 0xAF, DirectX 9, Medium Detail

  • ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB
  • XFX GeForce 9800 GT 512MB XXX Edition
  • Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB
    • 66.3
    • 48.0
    • 62.0
    • 46.0
    • 61.8
    • 47.0
    • 60.6
    • 47.0
    • 54.0
    • 44.0
    • 50.5
    • 43.0
    • 46.9
    • 39.0
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Frames Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Far Cry 2

1,280 x 1,024 4xAA 0xAF, DirectX 9, Medium Detail

  • ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB
  • XFX GeForce 9800 GT 512MB XXX Edition
  • ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB
    • 61.1
    • 46.0
    • 57.6
    • 47.0
    • 56.7
    • 44.0
    • 55.4
    • 45.0
    • 48.8
    • 43.0
    • 44.7
    • 39.0
    • 40.9
    • 33.0
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Frames Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Far Cry 2

1,680 x 1,050 0xAA 0xAF, DirectX 9, Medium Detail

  • ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB
  • XFX GeForce 9800 GT 512MB XXX Edition
  • Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT 512MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB
    • 68.3
    • 50.0
    • 64.3
    • 47.0
    • 63.1
    • 50.0
    • 61.4
    • 47.0
    • 53.3
    • 44.0
    • 52.5
    • 44.0
    • 51.5
    • 44.0
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Frames Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Far Cry 2

1,680 x 1,050 2xAA 0xAF, DirectX 9, Medium Detail

  • ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB
  • XFX GeForce 9800 GT 512MB XXX Edition
  • ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB
    • 59.2
    • 46.0
    • 56.2
    • 47.0
    • 54.0
    • 44.0
    • 53.4
    • 45.0
    • 46.6
    • 41.0
    • 43.6
    • 36.0
    • 38.7
    • 31.0
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Frames Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Far Cry 2

1,680 x 1,050 4xAA 0xAF, DirectX 9, Medium Detail

  • ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB
  • XFX GeForce 9800 GT 512MB XXX Edition
  • ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB
    • 53.8
    • 44.0
    • 50.2
    • 44.0
    • 48.8
    • 40.0
    • 48.4
    • 43.0
    • 42.5
    • 38.0
    • 37.9
    • 33.0
    • 33.2
    • 26.0
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Frames Per Second
  • Average
  • Minimum

Switching down to DirectX 9 sees the XFX GeForce 9800 GT 512MB XXX Edition overclock create a bigger gap between it and the stock card. While at 1,280 x 1,024, the advantage is only one frame per second at 0xAA and 2xAA, upping it to 4xAA sees the performance advantage widen to over two frames per second, and at 1,680 x 1,050 the overclocked 9800 GT is able to stretch the improvement to over three frames per second.
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