DX9 GAME benches, those DX9 synthetic benches weren't lying....

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Remember all the synthetic Pixel Shader 2.0 benches that showed very poor performance on NV3x cards? Check out this Beyond 3d review.....
With the recent Triplex REDai Radeon 9600PRO 128MB we introduced the game "Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness" as a benchmark. Regardless of what you may feel of the game, the importance of this as a benchmark is that this is one of the first available gaming titles to make use of Pixel Shader 2.0 functionality, meaning that DirectX9 boards are required to run the full functionality the game has. The developers have included numerous fall back modes to cover boards all the way from DX7 to DX9, but here we are only looking at DX9 performance with a number of DX9 boards from ATI and NVIDIA.

http://www.beyond3d.com/misc/traod_dx9perf/

I was pretty surpised to see the HUGE difference in performance between R3XX amd the NV3XX cards. Hoping that Nvidia will optimize their shaders, they have some serious catching up to do......Wondering if HL2 will show similar results....


Interesting that for the low end, DX9 Nvidia cards,
By default we see a similar pattern with the lower end boards than the high end boards - all the extra PS2.0 effects are turned off for the FX boards and enabled for the Radeons. You'll note that despite this being DX9 capable, all PS2.0 effects are disabled for it, effectively limiting it to DX8 functionality.

Why are you buying that FX5200 again??? Go Ti4200!!!
 
This is kind of self explanatory. Doesn't look to good for nVidia, and Half-Life 2, if this is true.
This isn't confirmed as 100% official, so keep that in mind. On the HalfLife2.net forums, a gamer emailed Gabe Newell of Valve Software, and asked him a question in regards to GeForce FX cards dismal performance in Tomb Raider using PS 2.0 brought up by the article on Beyond3D (see this post). Here's the question he asked Gabe: Is a ATi 9800pro card really alot better for HL2 then Nvidia's FX5900? Or is the difference not that big (quality & fps wise)? Here's the answer he got: I have been a long-time NVIDIA card user. Currently I have ATI 9800 Pro's in both my work and home machines. The DX9 performance described by the Beyond3D article is consistent with what we've been seeing. If the email really is from Gabe, then this just doesn't bode well for NVIDIA for their current line of cards.
Source:3DGPU
 
Thaty came for Gabe??? OMG, it really doesn't look good for Nvidia...currently.....

Will be interesting to see what the NV40 brings to the table....this last generation from Nvidia is turning out to be quite a dissapointment...
 
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