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Review: MSI GeForce FX 5950 Ultra-VTD 256MB Card

by Tarinder Sandhu on 14 March 2004, 00:00

Tags: MSI Geforce FX 5950 Ultra-VTD 256MB Card, MSI

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Call of Duty and RTCW: ET

Return to Castle Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory

  • Author: id Software
  • OpenGL
  • Pixel and Vertex Shaders: No
  • Modified Q3 engine with high-resolution textures
  • FSAA and AF set via control panel




ATI's Radeon 9800 XT was rebenchmarked with the latest CATALYST 4.2 driver set. Performance has improved markedly over the 4.1s, yet MSI's card takes first place easily. The FX 5900 XT, too, manages to eclipse the R360.

Call of Duty

  • Author: Activision
  • OpenGL
  • Pixel and Vertex Shaders: No
  • Heavily modified Q3 engine with high-resolution textures
  • FSAA and AF set via control panel




Our Call of Duty benchmark reverses the tables. All we need to know is that the green line is below the dark-blue one.