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BFGTech GeForce 7600 GT OC

We wanted to find out how ATI’s and NVIDIA’s latest mainstream GPUs facilitate high quality gameplay, so we put them to the test in standard and widescreen gaming. A BFGTech GeForce 7600 GT OC vs. ATI Radeon X1800 GTO, you don’t want to miss this!

Game and Video Card Evaluation Setup

The goals of this evaluation are to see how these video cards compare in today’s games. We are using a very fast CPU so that the video cards won’t be bottlenecked. We are very interested in how the BFGTech GeForce 7600 GT OC compares to the new X1800 GTO.

We will be including a section concentrating on Widescreen gaming using a Dell 2405FPW. We will run with the LCD at the native resolution of 1920x1200. Therefore only in-game settings, AA and AF settings will change as we figure out what is playable at 1920x1200 on the LCD.

Please be aware we test our video cards a bit differently from what is the norm. We concentrate on examining the real-world gameplay that each video card provides. The Highest Playable section shows the best Image Quality delivered at a playable frame rate. We use a high performance system, with a very fast CPU in order to remove CPU bottlenecking.

In our graphs we use some abbreviations to indicate the method of AA or AF being used.

AD AA = Adaptive AA – Indicates the use of ATI’s Adaptive AA on X1000 series video cards.

HQ AF = High Quality Anisotropic Filtering – Indicates the use of ATI’s High Quality option for Anisotropic Filtering that is not angle dependent.

TR MSAA = Transparency Multisampling Antialiasing – Indicates the use of NVIDIA’s Transparency Multisampling quality setting on GeForce 7 series video cards.

TR SSAA = Transparency Supersampling Antialiasing – Indicates the use of NVIDIA’s Transparency Supersampling quality setting on GeForce 7 series video cards.

System Test Setup:

For our system platform setup we are using the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe with an FX-60 Dual Core and 2GB of RAM.

Video Cards:

All video cards were tested at their default frequencies as you can see above. We used the latest drivers at the time of evaluation.