- Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

A Japanese Information Defense Force is formed to help face modern threats. Deemed a violation of international law and of the Japanese Post-War Constitution, Korea and China become outraged.

Secretly, the head of the IDF begins launching information-warfare attacks against Japan and blaming the attacks on North Korea. When the U.S. intervenes, as they are obligated to under Article 9 of the Japanese Post-War Constitution, the U.S. is attacked as well, forcing North Korea to escalate the situation with a pre-emptive invasion of South Korea. As war erupts on the Korean Peninsula, Sam Fisher must thwart the alliance between the Japanese Admiral, a neurotic computer hacker, and the head of an international paramilitary company in order to prevent the rekindling of a massive world war in the Pacific.

The graphics engine supports Pixel Shader 1 and 3, HDR along with other new effects. We used hocbench which offers all benchmarking options through an easy to use GUI. We used the built-in "Guru3D 2" timedemo and all results are posted below, using SM1.1

The Asus EN8600GTS Top was slower than the EN7900GS Top in this test (SM 1.1). Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory also supports Shader Model 3.0 that can be enabled easily from hocbench:

SM3.0 offers much better visual details but at the cost of performance. In this mode, the Asus EN8600GTS Top and EN7900GS Top had exactly the same performance. Splinter Cell Chaos Theory doesn't offer AA/AF modes, so we had to enable them with each VGA card's 3D Control panel.

Enabling AA/AF impacts on the performance of both the Asus EN7900GS Top and PowerColor X1950Pro. The Asus EN8600GTS Top and Gainward 8800GTS GS 320 do not seem to be affected.