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Review by:

Joe

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

April 2nd, 2009

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X3: Terran Conflict:

X3: Terran Conflict is a relatively new benchmark here at ClubOC, but it is one of my favorites.  If you are not familiar with the "X" games, they are well worth checking out.  The benchmark, known as the "Rolling Demo" is available here.

X³: Terran Conflict is a brand new, stand-alone game set in the universe of X³. It is the culmination of the X trilogy, with a grand finale that takes us all the way back to Earth's own solar system. Gamers can take on the roles of different characters in the X universe, or of a Terran military pilot, and experience a multitude of stories in the largest X universe ever featured - for X³: Terran Conflict will offer more missions than any other X game before.

For the all testing, the settings were completely maxed out, with the single GPUs running at 1680x1050 and the dual GPUs running 1920x1200:

Single GPUs:

Video Settings During Benchmark:
Screen Resolution: 1680 x 1050 * [32], full screen
Using Shader Profile: 3.0
Antialias Mode: 8x
Anisotropic Mode: 16x

Graphics & Shader Settings:
Texture Quality: high
Shader Quality: high
High Quality Bumpmaps: enabled
Environment Mapping: enabled
Glow Filter: enabled
Ship Color Variations: enabled
More Dynamic Lights: enabled
Used Vertexsize: 28 bytes

  Trade Fight Build Think
4870 42.8 91.2 118.1 50.8
4890 43.0 92.7 120.9 52.0

The X3:Terran Conflict demo is notorious for loving clock speeds, both on the GPU and the CPU.  Here the 4890 pulls ahead by a meager 1-2%. 

Dual GPUs:

Video Settings During Benchmark:
Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1200 * [32], full screen
Using Shader Profile: 3.0
Antialias Mode: 8x
Anisotropic Mode: 16x

Graphics & Shader Settings:
Texture Quality: high
Shader Quality: high
High Quality Bumpmaps: enabled
Environment Mapping: enabled
Glow Filter: enabled
Ship Color Variations: enabled
More Dynamic Lights: enabled
Used Vertexsize: 28 bytes

  Trade Fight Build Think
4870X2 42.7 94.0 125.2 56.6
4890 Crossfire 43.0 94.0 126.3 57.0

Same story on the multi-GPU front; the 4890 Crossfire wins, but barely. 

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