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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
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