Splinter Cell

We have a recorded demo on "The Caspian Oil Refinery" map which is much more dependent on the graphics card than the CPU. Splinter Cell uses a shadow algorithm that takes into account the number of AI bots in the scene. In this demo, there is only one enemy towards the end, reducing the dependency on the CPU. The ocean's surface, as well as the night vision goggles, use pixel shaders which also help add additional load to the graphics card. The demo is played back as a time-demo, rendering the frames as fast as possible and spitting out the average FPS.

Splinter Cell does not support Anti-Aliasing and it was disabled during benchmarking. Anisotropic filtering was set to 8x for all of the Splinter Cell tests. For each test, the time-demo was run three times and the results were averaged.

Splinter Cell No AA / 8x AF
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ATI Radeon X800 Pro

XFX GeForce 6800 GT

PowerColor Radeon 9800 XT

Leadtek WinFast A380 Ultra

68.41

72.08

54.13

43.30

0

(FPS)

111

 

 

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ATI Radeon X800 Pro

XFX GeForce 6800 GT

PowerColor Radeon 9800 XT

Leadtek WinFast A380 Ultra

67.41

71.31

47.40

40.27

0

(FPS)

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ATI Radeon X800 Pro

XFX GeForce 6800 GT

PowerColor Radeon 9800 XT

Leadtek WinFast A380 Ultra

63.54

69.21

41.80

36.39

0

(FPS)

111

 

 

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ATI Radeon X800 Pro

XFX GeForce 6800 GT

PowerColor Radeon 9800 XT

Leadtek WinFast A380 Ultra

52.30

56.89

31.85

30.95

0

(FPS)

111

 

 

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ATI Radeon X800 Pro

XFX GeForce 6800 GT

PowerColor Radeon 9800 XT

Leadtek WinFast A380 Ultra

46.22

48.50

27.90

26.55

0

(FPS)

111

 

 

Here we see the 6800 GT taking a slight lead over the X800 Pro. Both the X800 Pro and 6800 GT offer a great performance increase over the last generation of cards. Both cards perform well at 1600 x 1200.