Games Benchmarks - Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness Detailed

Again, we'll take a detailed look at the X700's performances with Tomb Raider.

 

 

X700 XT (FPS) 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x960 1600x1200
Normal 145.1 117.2 81.0 63.2 39.0
8x AF 143.1 116.0 80.3 62.6 38.7
4x FSAA 112.8 84.2 58.5 40.6 26.7
4x FSAA + 8x AF 110.7 83.3 58.0 39.6 26.4
 
% Diff from Normal 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x960 1600x1200
8x AF -1.3% -1.0% -0.8% -0.9% -0.7%
4x FSAA -22.2% -28.1% -27.7% -35.8% -31.4%
4x FSAA + 8x AF -23.7% -28.9% -28.5% -37.4% -32.3%

The performance of the X700 XT under Tomb Raider isn't greatly affected by Anisotropic Filtering here, however the performance penalty for FSAA is above 35% at worst. Under normal rendering the performance is well above an average of 30 FPS at 1600x1200, but with FSAA it falls below this mark.

 

X700 PRO (FPS) 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x960 1600x1200
Normal 134.6 108.8 70.1 52.1 34.7
8x AF 133.0 107.3 69.8 51.6 34.4
4x FSAA 98.3 73.4 48.7 34.6 22.9
4x FSAA + 8x AF 97.2 72.7 48.1 34.4 22.8
 
% Diff from Normal 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x960 1600x1200
8x AF -1.2% -1.4% -0.4% -1.0% -0.7%
4x FSAA -27.0% -32.5% -30.6% -33.7% -33.9%
4x FSAA + 8x AF -27.8% -33.2% -31.3% -34.0% -34.2%

As expected, there are very little performance differences with or without AF. The performance drop for utilisating 4x FSAA in this case is around the 34% market in this instance, due to the bandwidth requirements. As with the XT, the average performance for the PRO without FSAA is over 30 FPS at 1600x1200, however you have to drop below that with FSAA enabled before you go over 30 FPS.