Comanche 4
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Comanche 4 is a benchmark that can show the relative strengths of a video card in an indirect way. Although it's largely system limited, decent cards should be able to sustain high frame-rates at the higher resolutions.
Every card does well here. The cards' capacity is not really being tested here. It should be at 1280x1024x32.
Notice how the Ti cards fall back a little way here and the Radeons are largely unaffected. This is the indirect power that I alluded to earlier. The fillrate requirements have started to impeded the nVidia-based cards. 45fps is still impressive, though.
More evidence here of that fact. I'm a little surprised at just how well the non-Pro Radeon does here. The Ti 4800-SE runs out of steam at this juncture. You can bet your bottom dollar that adding anisotropic filtering and antialiasing would seriously hurt the performance of the Ti cards at these higher resolutions. Their techniques, although fundamentally sound, cannot match the performance-based aliasing and filtering from the ATi stable.
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