Oblivion

The Oblivion graphics engine can be very taxing for even the fastest hardware once you increase the level of detail. There is also a difference in performance compared running ?outside?, in ?city area? or inside a ?dungeon?, the outside is most taxing for the graphics card, the town area is noticeably easier on the GPU while the dungeon is usually less taxing of all.

We choose an outdoor scene and inside the main city. FRAPS was used to log min/avg/max FPS, this was the outdoor run:


Full screen

This was the city benchmark:


Full screen


Performance at 1280x1024




In the city area all cards deliver fluent gameplay, outdoors the X1900 GT is noticeably trailing the 7900 GT but average frame rate is still well within playable values.


Performance at 1600x1200




At 1600x1200 all cards drop their average frame rate, but none fall below playable levels, although we must admit that with the 7900 GT and X1900 GT at stock speeds there are area of noticeable slow down.