Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup Part I - ATI's Radeon 9800 XT

Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide

This is the expansion to the popular RPG game Neverwinter Nights, and it features some of the most amazing particle effects we've seen in any game. The magic is all very well done and this is simply a beautiful game to watch. You may not like playing it unless you are already into RPGs or story driven adventure games, but anyone can enjoy watching a cut scene or two from Neverwinter. We happened to be able to benchmark the very first in game cut scene in the expansion as it had a nice sized battle with magic flying everywhere. FRAPS was again used to determine framerate.

NVIDIA takes this benchmark.

Surpisingly, even the 5600 Ultra is favored under Neverwinter, as it climbs out from under the bottom of the pile to just above the venerable 9700 Pro.