Asus V8460 Ultra Deluxe in the test: The video talent with shutter glasses

The edges actually seem equally smooth, with the possible exception of the top of the pavilion, the finer gradations on the Asus V8460ultra shows. The Radeon's bilinear filter, which is maximally possible with AF, has a negative effect on the textures, as can be seen particularly well in the very washed-out-looking patch of brown earth in front of the right tree.

Comanche 4

Comanche 4 is also quite a new game, which makes excessive use of pixel shaders and a large number of polygons to represent the detailed landscape, as well as the beautifully animated water and reflective surfaces. At an average of 30 fps, the polygon throughput is around 6 million per second, a feast for the TnL units.

From the anti-aliasing, no clear differences can be seen here either (an indication that we are comparing the correct settings) , and also in the texture quality, largely determined by the AF, you have to look very carefully. On both bank arches are very small and onthe first trees on the right-hand side show somewhat clearer differences in favor of the GeForce4.

Even in the very TnL-heavy Comanche4 demo, the Asus v8460ultra still seems to have a good performance class, as you can at least activate in 1024x768 2xFSAA and 4xAF without ending up below the performance of the previous generation. With the quality settings activated throughout, the Asus in the next higher resolution is still ahead of the values ​​of the older cards in the lower resolution. The very good performance of the cards from the last test can be attributed to the other driver that was used, as a brief cross-check with the V8460 showed. So no cause for alarm here.