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 that offers all benchmarking options through an easy GUI. We used the built-in "Guru3D 2" timedemo and all results are posted below, using SM1.1

It's very much the same scenario we've seen up till now with the EVGA 7950GT leading and the other two cards close behind.

Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory also supports Shader Model 3.0 that can be enabled easily within hocbench software:

SM3.0 offers much better visual details but at a cost in performance. Again, the EVGA is out in front with 63FPS.

Enabling AA/AF drops the performance even further for all cards. With maximum visual quality, all 7950GT cards are at over or close to in the case of the XFX card, 40FPS, making the game very playable.