Performance in Semi-Synthetic Benchmarks

Final Fantasy XI Official Benchmark 3

As you can see in the diagram, the new version of the benchmark from Square Enix dislikes NVIDIA’s cards for some unknown reason. It doesn’t take a microscope to see how far behind the RADEON 9800 XT the GeForce 6600 GT AGP is.

AquaMark3

Aquamark3’s conditions are favorable for the GeForce 6600 GT AGP as this test is known to have sophisticated geometry and a high overdraw coefficient. Yet the NVIDIA card is only a tiny step ahead of the RADEON 9800 XT here.

The same goes for the “eye candy?mode where there’s no difference in the performance of the two mainstream cards at all.