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GEFORCE PCX 5900 PERFORMANCE

"Powered by the GeForce PCX 5900 GPU this video card uses PCI-Express, Directx 9.0 and has 128MB DDR memory using a 256-bit memory interface. The original GeForce 5900 was a high price video card produced for the high-end market, Nvidia later released a cheaper to produce version of the GeForce 5900 called the GeForce 5900 XT which was clocked slightly slower than the GeForce 5900 while retaining the important features of the GeForce 5900 like the 256bit memory interface. Although you would expect the GeForce PCX 5900 to offer compariable performance to the GeForce 5900 the GeForce PCX 5900 is clocked quite abit slower and will offer performance more like the GeForce 5900 XT. For this review we have benchmarked using 23 games including 1944 Battle of the Bulge, Aurora Watching, Chronicles of Riddick, Codename Panzers Phase 2, Comanche4, Delta Force Extreme, Earth 2160, Far Cry, GT Legends, King Kong, Lego Starwars, Quake 3, Quake 4, Scooter War3z, Scrapland, Serious Sam 2, Trackmania Sunrise, Tribes Vengeance, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004, Warhammer 40,000 - Dawn of War, World Racing 2 and Xpand Rally."

CINEFX ENGINE - Powers cinematic effects beyond imagination. With advanced vertex and pixel shader capabilities, stunning and complex special effects are possible. In addition, increased horsepower delivers faster and smoother gameplay.

HIGH-PRECISION GRAPHICS - By combining the incredible dynamic range of today's state-of-the-art 3D motion pictures with 128-bit studio-precision colour, the GeForce FX GPUs bring you the industry’s best image quality for the most demanding applications.

NVIEW MULTI-DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY - The nView hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience.

DIGITAL VIBRANCE CONTROL (DVC) - Allows the user to adjust colour controls digitally to compensate for the lighting conditions of their workspace, in order to achieve accurate, bright colours in all conditions. Currently this feature is not available on Mac systems.

MICROSOFT DIRECTX® 9.0 OPTIMIZATIONS AND SUPPORT - Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all DirectX 9 applications.

OPENGL® 1.4 OPTIMIZATIONS AND SUPPORT - Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all OpenGL applications.

HARDWARE MPEG-2 DECODER - Delivers full-frame, full-screen MPEG-2 video on your desktop.

DVI SUPPORT - Able to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays with up to 1600x1200 resolution.

350MHz RAMDAC - Supports QXGA displays with ergonomic refresh rates.

ARCHITECTED FOR CG - Ensures that the newest, cutting-edge special effects in applications will run flawlessly. Speeds up content creation so game developers can get their new games out to PC users faster than ever before.

UNIFIFED DRIVER ARCHITECTURE (UDA) - Guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software.

COMANCHE 4 59 57 53 50 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Fullscreen Enabled 32Bit Colour Depth Anti-Aliasing Disabled Terrain Detail High Object Detail High Texture Quality High Water Quality High Shadows High Particle Density High COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 delivers great performance with Comanche4 and it is very playable at all of the resolutions tested."

DELTA FORCE EXTREME LOW QUALITY 48 39 30 23 MEDIUM QUALITY 42 34 26 20 HIGH QUALITY 27 19 15 5 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 delivers average performance with Delta Force Extreme and is playable upto 1280x1024 using low quality settings. Medium quality doesn't seem to effect the performance of the GeForce PCX 5900 too much and it offers playable performance upto 1024x768, however using high quality the GeForce PCX 5900 performance is reduced to an unplayable level." BENCHMARK SETTINGS Peru Campaign Mission Flood LOW QUALITY Terrain Polygon Low Terrain Texture Normal Object Polygon Detail Low Object Texture Detail Normal Water Quality Low Shadows Low Antialiasing Disabled Bilinear MEDIUM QUALITY Terrain Polygon Normal Terrain Texture High Object Polygon Detail Normal Object Texture Detail High Water Quality Normal Shadows Normal Antialiasing Disabled Trilinear HIGH QUALITY Terrain Polygon High Terrain Texture Highest Object Polygon Detail High Object Texture Detail Highest Water Quality High Shadows High Antialiasing 4x Anisotropic

EARTH 2160 33 15 7 LOW QUALITY MEDIUM QUALITY HIGH QUALITY COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 offers playable performance only at low quality, when using medium quality performance is reduced by a huge 55% and high quality reduced the performance by 54%."

FAR CRY LOW QUALITY 139 132 130 96 MEDIUM QUALITY 75 58 42 28 HIGH QUALITY 57 42 29 19 800x600 1024X768 1280x1024 1600x1200 COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 starts off very strongly with Far Cry and offers very playable performance using low quality settings. Although medium quality does reduce the performance of the GeForce PCX 5900 by 24% the GeForce PCX 5900 is still playable upto 1280x1024. High quality reduces the performance of the GeForce PCX 5900 and it is only playable upto 1024x768." BENCHMARK SETTINGS LOW QUALITY Texture Quality Low Bilinear Anisotropic Filtering 1 Particle Count Low Special Effects Low Enviroment Quality Low Shadow Quality Low Water Quality Low Lighting Quality Low MEDIUM QUALITY Texture Quality Medium Trilinear Anisotropic Filtering 2 Particle Count Medium Special Effects Medium Enviroment Quality Medium Shadow Quality Medium Water Quality Medium Lighting Quality Medium HIGH QUALITY Texture Quality High Trilinear Anisotropic Filtering 4 Particle Count High Special Effects High Enviroment Quality High Shadow Quality High Water Quality High Lighting Quality High

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