Oblivion is without doubt one of the most demanding PC game titles of 2006. It is able to effectively stress every component of the PC, and can bring even the best of systems to their knees. Despite how useful this video game title is in calculating the performance of video cards, there is no built-in benchmarking utility. Therefore we decided on using Fraps to record the system performance. All settings in the game were maxed out and set to their highest. HDR, however, was the only exception, which we decided to disable. The test only lasted 30 seconds, in which we walked around performing various actions.

The test shows a clear advantage for the XFX overclocked 8800s.

The above graph shows the behavior of the video cards over the length of the 30 second test. It is important to remember; since this is not a timedemo it is nearly impossible to repeat the exact same actions for each video card. Thus, there are minor differences between the tests, although looking at the big picture we performed the actions nearly exactly the same each time around.