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INNO3D GEFORCE 6600 GT REVIEW "In this article we test the Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT against the MSI GeForce FX 5900 XT, OCUK Radeon 9700 Pro and Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT. The following software was used during testing:- 3DMark 2003, 3DMark 2005, Doom III, Quake III Arena, Scrapland, Serious Sam 2 The Second Encounter, Tribes Vengeance, Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War, X2 The Threat and Xpand Rally!"
GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION
INNO3D 6600 GT MSI 5900 XT OCUK 9700 PRO SAPPHIRE 9600 XT
COMMENT - "This is the first real game featured in this review and it's the excellent id software first person shooter Doom 3. It is a well known fact that Doom 3 performs much better on Nvidia rather than ATI hardware, if you look at the Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT results you will have no doubts that Doom3 is best played on Nvidia hardware. The other video cards perform pretty similar however the Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT is miles ahead. Using low quality settings the Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT is 30% faster at lower quality settings, at medium settings it's lead is increased to 40% and at high quality it is still 25% faster. The reason for the 40% performance increase over the other video cards at medium settings is because all of the advanced special fx have been enabled apart from shadows and the Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT is able to render them much faster than the other video cards." |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
High Quality
1024x768 Screen Size
Fullscreen Enabled
Vertical Sync Disabled
Demo1 Benchmark
LOW QUALITY
Bump Maps Disabled
Shadows Disabled
Special Effects Disabled
Specular Disabled
Antialiasing Disabled
MEDIUM QUALITY
Bump Maps Enabled
Shadows Disabled
Special Effects Enabled
Specular Enabled
Antialiasing Disabled
HIGH QUALITY
Bump Maps Enabled
Shadows Enabled
Special Effects Enabled
Specular Enabled
Anti-aliasing Enabled
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QUAKE III ARENA
HIGH QUALITY INNO3D 6600 GT MSI 5900 XT OCUK 9700 PRO SAPPHIRE 9600 XT
COMMENT - "Here we have another very well known id software game called Quake 3 Arena, compared to Doom 3 this game is pretty ancient and should perform very well on all of the video cards featured. High quality is very cpu limited and the Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT is only able to outpace the other video cards by 10%, this rises to 12% using ultra high quality and then to 29% using extreme quality. " |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Default GLdriver
GL Extensions on
1024x768 Video Mode
32Bit Colour Depth
Fullscreen on
Lightmap Lighting
32Bit Texture Quality
Demo four.dm_66
HIGH QUALITY
Medium Geometic Detail
75% Texture Detail
Trilinear Texture Filtering
ULTRA HIGH QUALITY
High Geometic Detail
Full Texture Detail
Trilinear Texture Filtering
EXTREME QUALITY
High Geometic Detail
Full Texture Detail
8x Anisotropic Filtering
4x Anti-Aliasing
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INNO3D 6600 GT MSI 5900 XT OCUK 9700 PRO SAPPHIRE 9600 XT
COMMENT - "This is the first of the games which do not have any benchmark tools built in so we have to use fraps. Using the more cpu limited low quality setting the results are fairly close together so the Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT is only 8% faster than the Radeon 9700 Pro. The Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT increases it's performance advantage to 18% using medium settings and then to a further 28% performance advantage with the all important high quality setting." |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Video Mode
Vsync Disabled
Crazy Gambler Level
LOW QUALITY
Bilinear Texture Filtering
Low Texture Detail
Shadows Disabled
Fog Disabled
Bloom Disabled
Motion Blur Disabled
Deformation Disabled
MEDIUM QUALITY
Trilinear Texture Filtering
Medium Texture Detail
Shadows Disabled
Fog Enabled
Bloom Enabled
Motion Blur Enabled
Deformation Enabled
HIGH QUALITY
8x Anisotropic Filtering
High Texture Detail
Low Shadows Enabled
Fog Enabled
Bloom Enabled
Motion Blur Enabled
Deformation Enabled
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INNO3D 6600 GT MSI 5900 XT OCUK 9700 PRO SAPPHIRE 9600 XT |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
Fullscreen Enabled
Extreme Quality Settings
Large Texture Size
Optimal Texture Quality
Detail Textures Enabled
COMMENT - "Just like Quake 3 Arena this is another older game which is still very popular, it was made by Croteam and we will continue to use Serious Sam Second Encounter until Serious Sam 2 is released sometime in 2005. All of the video cards offer playable performance with this game and the Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT delivers between a 17% to 36% increase in performance depending on which benchmark demo is used."
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