Oblivion

Oblivion gives us our first look at how the two cards compare at high resolutions. The use of 1920x1200 with HDR and 16x anisotropic filtering makes for a demanding test, even on this slightly older game engine. Looking at the results without antialiasing we see that there is a large difference in performance between the two cards with the XFX significantly ahead of the Gainward model in average and maximum frames per second. There is less of a difference in performance on minimum frames per second but the XFX GTS still comes out on top. When we add 4x antialiasing to the image there is a noticeable narrowing in the performance difference.

The reason for this is twofold, firstly the XFX card takes a significant hit from the added antialiasing and secondly the Gainward card is not affected as much. Unfortunately neither card gives us entirely smooth framerates with these settings so 2xAA would be the ideal setting for this game and the best card, the XFX model.