Testing The GeForce 7950 GX2

The Testbed

The Graphics Cards

Testing Methodology

We chose five FPS (First Person Shooter) games and a synthetic benchmark for benchmarking :

• Far Cry v1.33
• Half Life 2
• F.E.A.R. v1.02
• Doom 3 v1.3
• Quake 4 v1.2
• 3DMark06 v1.02

HardwareOC's Far Cry benchmarking tool was used for testing Far Cry averaging 3 runs running 'PC Games Hardware Demo'. Anisotropy Filtering, AA and SM3 were enabled through benchmark utility.

In Half Life 2, HardwareOC's Half Life 2 benchmarking tool was chosen for the tests, using the HOC - Anticitizen map. Anisotropy Filtering, and AA were enabled through benchmark utility.

F.E.A.R. used its own built-in benchmarking tool for testing. Anisotropy Filtering, and AA were enabled from the game itself.

Doom 3 is still one of the most graphics-intensive game in the market today, and easily stresses the graphics card to the limit. That makes it very suitable for testing graphics cards. We used the standard 'demo1' run for benchmarking with an average of 3 runs using Ultra Quality settings. Anisotropy Filtering, and AA were enabled through Display Control Panel.

For Quake 4, we used the timedemo recorded by hwzone.co.il for testing. Anisotropy Filtering, and AA were enabled through Display Control Panel.

All games were tested at 1600x1200 with maximum details, all optimizations were disabled from the Display Control Panel, and Image Quality was set to High Quality. All games were tested with Anisotropy Filtering 16X on.

Game Settings