For this analysis, we made sure that our copy of Serious Sam 2 was updated to the most recent patch, version 2.070. We used the Branchester scene in the game and benchmarked using Hocbench. The testing resolutions were 1600x1200 and 2048x1536. In the first test we had anti-aliasing set at 4x while in the second test we had HDR enabled. Both tests had anisotropic filtering at 16x.

In Serious Sam 2 the 8800 GTX GPUs are mainly CPU limited. This is obvious because as we raise the resolutions of the benchmarks, the frame rate takes a minimal negative impact. The quality of the new G80 architecture is displayed by the fact that a single 8800 GTX video card is able to outperform both 7900 GTX SLI and Radeon X1950XTX Crossfire setups.