Serious Sam: TSE
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter will give the cards a workout with its maximum quality add-on executed.
The FX's architecture has done extremely well in this benchmark in the past. It shows little sign of letting up.
Strapping on a quality bias only seeks to reinforce this fact. The sheer pixel-churning power of a 400/850 combination, allied to NVIDIA's all-new Intellisample HCT technology, seems to work wonders for Sam.
The Gainward 1200/XP continues to be sandwiched by the faster FX and the 9800 Pro. It's taken NVIDIA and their partners a long while to come to terms with ATi's wonder cards, but it now seems as if parity has been restored. One of the most important driving features in any industry is consumer choice. That choice now seems to have reasserted itself in the busy graphics card industry.
