The SC tests were run on a freshly installed copy of Splinter Cell Chaos Theory patched to version 1.05. We ran the benchmarks using the Lighthouse demo released by Ubisoft. Our test resolutions were at 1024x768, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 and we always had 16x anisotropic filtering enabled along with High Dynamic Range (HDR).

This particular test rewards higher operating frequencies, as we see the overclocked HIS X1950PRO AGP take the lead. The performance difference between it and the Sapphire AGP X1950PRO, though, is very slight. Interestingly enough, the HIS AGP X1950PRO performs 10% better than the PCI Express ATI Radeon X1950PRO reference board.

Again, in Serious Sam 2 operating frequencies has a large impact on performance and the higher clocked X1950PRO cards dominate the tests.