Oblivion

Oblivion was released a while ago and features one of the best looking game worlds ever seen on the PC. The level of detail available mixed with the exceptional use of HDR lighting is really the type of experience that redefines what you expect from your games.

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It's well known that ATI have released a patch for their driver which allows end users to apply AA and HDR at the same time which makes for a pretty stunning game environment and one which cant be recreated on any Nvidia card at this point. Unfortunately this patch hasn't made it into a WHQL driver at this point and until it does we'll leave that test/performance alone.

So with two ways to test (Bloom with AA and no AA with HDR) we can take a look at how the 4 cards being tested today compare. The results are quite interesting. Without AA applied the 7900 GTX is a clear leader in performance and even outscores the GX2 . When we move to using AA the 7900GTX performs on average at the same level as the X1950XTX however the X1950XTX has a much better minimum FPS result. It is also worth noting that the X1950XTX outscores the 7950GX2.