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XFX GeForce 7900 GT 256MB PCI-E XXX Edition
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
 Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is a little different than the rest of our benchmarks. The game supports SM 1.1, SM2.0 and SM 3.0. With SM 2.0 and 3.0 you have the choice to enable some new visual effects, perhaps most notably, HDR (High Dynamic Range) lighting. Of course, turning these effects on will greatly impact your performance. Whereas in the past we had to alternate between using SM 2.0 and SM 3.0 for the ATI and NVIDIA cards respectively, we can now run SM3.0 with both companies' cards. As you will see below, we have tested each of the cards with and without all of the extra features available with SM3.0. I will refer to SM 3.0 with the extras turned on as SM 3.0+. The timedemo we used was the one included with the game, and we used a batch file to run the timedemo three times at each setting. Patch 1.05 was used.
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (SM 3.0) @ 1024 x 768
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126
118
115
115
102
95
83
81
72
50
0
FPS
160
109
103
80
68
40
0
0
0
0
0
0
FPS
160
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (SM 3.0) @ 1600 x 1200
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87
81
72
67
57
54
46
45
39
27
0
FPS
160
69
59
44
37
19
0
0
0
0
0
0
FPS
160
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (SM 3.0) @ 2048 x 1536
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60
58
48
47
40
36
32
29
22
17
0
FPS
160
47
39
29
24
10
0
0
0
0
0
0
FPS
160
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (SM 3.0+) @ 1024 x 768
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107
99
90
83
72
69
58
58
48
38
0
FPS
120
103
87
67
56
35
0
0
0
0
0
0
FPS
120
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (SM 3.0+) @ 1600 x 1200
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64
53
48
44
37
36
29
29
24
19
0
FPS
120
60
46
35
28
17
0
0
0
0
0
0
FPS
120
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (SM 3.0+) @ 2048 x 1536
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42
35
31
29
25
23
20
19
14
12
0
FPS
120
40
30
22
18
10
0
0
0
0
0
0
FPS
120
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The Card & Bundle Page 3: The HDR+AA Fiasco Page 4: Test Setup Page 5: Benchmarks: Half-Life 2 Page 6: Benchmarks: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Page 7: Benchmarks: Quake 4 Page 8: Benchmarks: X3 Reunion Demo Page 9: Benchmarks: Chronicles of Riddick Page 10: Benchmarks: F.E.A.R. Page 11: Benchmarks: Need for Speed Most Wanted Page 12: Benchmarks: Black & White 2 Page 13: Benchmarks: 3DMark '06 Page 14: Overclocking... and Underclocking? Page 15: Performance Summary Page 16: Conclusion 
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