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

The performance difference between the 7900GS and 7950GT was 23.64FPS.

Enabling SM 3.0, gives a performance drop of 17.47 FPS, dropping the average framerate down to 59.17. The 7900GS cards suffer a lower performance hit of just 10FPS.

Lastly, after enabling the various AA and AF modes, we can see the performance differences between the various cards. At the maximum possible quality, a framerate of 40FPS for the XFX7950GT was very good.