Review: MSI GeForce FX 5950 Ultra-VTD 256MB Card

by Tarinder Sandhu on 14 March 2004, 00:00

Tags: MSI Geforce FX 5950 Ultra-VTD 256MB Card, MSI

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UT2003 and TW2004

Unreal Tournament 2003 (2225)

  • Author: Epic
  • DirectX Class: 8.1
  • Pixel and Vertex Shaders: No
  • Other: High resolution textures show massive detail when aniso is applied
  • FSAA set through control panel. AF set through .ini file




UT2003's maximum detail test shows very little disparity between the flagship cards from ATI and NVIDIA. We'd wish that more partners would be brave enough to bump up the default clock speeds a touch. Be nice to see a 500MHz GPU / 1000MHz RAM FX 5950 Ultra.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
  • Author: EA Sports
  • DirectX Class: 9.0
  • Pixel and Vertex Shaders: Yes (unknown versions or amount of effects)
  • FSAA and AF set through control panel




TW2004 PGA Tour Golf also seems to favour ATI's way of doing things. The need for faster cards is all too apparent when perusing the 1600x1200 4xAA/8xAF numbers.