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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Roundup

By Kenny Yeo - 18 Sep 2008

Win Vista Results - Crysis (ver 1.21)

Win Vista Results - Crysis (ver 1.21)

Normally, we test our cards on Crysis in Vista on "Very High" settings, and with both anti-aliasing enabled and disabled. However, considering the fact that the new GeForce 9800 GT is positioned as a mid to high-range graphics card, we've decided to forgo testing the cards with 4x anti-aliasing setting turned on, because the results we got were pretty much meaningless - who plays on only 1.5 fps? Even so, Crysis on "Very High" settings without anti-aliasing is enough to break down the most powerful of graphics cards.

Again, we see that the Zotac 9800 GT AMP! Edition was the quickest of our bunch of 9800 GTs, with ATI's Radeon HD 4850 right up there with it. Gigabyte's 9800 GT, which comes with reference clock speeds, continued to perform similar to the older 8800 GT, proving conclusively that, performance-wise at least, there was no significant difference between the new 9800 GT and the older 8800 GT. The ASUS EN9800GT Matrix trailed again and ASUS probably needs to tweak and refine it before releasing it.

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