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ATI Radeon X1000 Series Preview
Benchmarks - Doom 3
 Doom 3 offers the ability to record and play back demos through the in-game console. We recorded a demo in the Delta1 level, mainly in the reactor core area. The demo includes open spaces with catwalks as well as narrow passageways, dark corridors and plenty of baddies for the fraggin'! The in-game graphical settings were set to "High Quality." Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering were controlled through Windows and not from within the game. The recorded demo was played back as a time-demo which runs through the demo as fast as possible and spits out the average FPS. For each test, the time-demo was run three times and the results were averaged.
Doom 3 1024 x 768
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116.83
116.7
115.2
114.23
114.16
103.43
82.13
53.9
0
FPS
140
109.86
104.36
102.1
88.9
73
52
49.2
31.6
0
FPS
140
Doom 3 1600 x 1200
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110.86
105.96
100
81.9
79.4
57.1
38.8
20.6
0
FPS
140
68.9
61.2
54.1
45.5
42.7
24.7
23.5
8.1
0
FPS
140
As expected, ATI gets beaten by NVIDIA across the board in Doom 3. Still, the X1800s perform respectably. The X1600 XT starts to have problems at 1600x1200 when you crank up the image quality, and don't even think about playing with the X1300 Pro at anything beyond 1024x768. I'd like to mention that with the X1600 XT 256MB I experienced strange artifacts in Doom 3. The plasma rifle was invisible with only the blue gas shown shooting out of what would be the side of the gun, the 6-eyed flying monster was invisible except for his green eyes, and towards the end of the timedemo I shoot a baddie on a platform and he is supposed to fall and go through the disintegration animation as he nearly falls off the edge, but instead he just disappears a second after he dies. These problems went away after I rebooted, but I can't say for sure what the problem was. Something to keep in mind is that I was using beta drivers throughout my testing of ATI's new cards, which could likely be the cause of any strange bugs and/or stability issues.
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Re-Introducing R520 / Availability Page 3: Architecture & New Features Page 4: Question & Answer Session Page 5: The Cards Page 6: Test Setup Page 7: Benchmarks - Half-Life 2 Page 8: Benchmarks - Day of Defeat: Source Page 9: Benchmarks - Doom 3 Page 10: Benchmarks - Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Page 11: Image Quality / Closing Thoughts 
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8 User Comments 1 - Posted by
Frosty
on October 5, 2005 - 5:37 pm i am gonan keep my 7800gtx thank you very much, i really dont feel the need to upgrade now......
2 - Posted by
sean478
on October 5, 2005 - 7:37 pm Hi :) thanks for the review dude :) I was wandering if you could email me the bioses for these cards? i was planing on makeing flash mod guides for them :) for example x1300np to x1300 pro mod and x1800xl to x1800xt mod ect. :) my email is rswisfamly@cox.net :) getting the bioses: try using a bootable dos disk with flashrom.exe on it http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/bios/flashrom240.z... also try ati flash http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/bios/atiflash309.z... command to enter: atiflash -s 0 you could also try dumping the bios from ati tool (try the latest beta) http://www.techpowerup.com ati tool/settings/misc./dump bios btw do you have access to the demos for the x1800s? do you think i could get ahold of them? :) Edit: you could also try winflash for ati :) http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/bios/winflash105.z... 3 - Posted by
Dyrewolph
on October 5, 2005 - 9:27 pm Haha... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahah... oooo that's a good one Kurtis! almost made me wet myself!
4 - Posted by
Kurtis
on October 5, 2005 - 10:29 pm hehehe... glad someone catches my little funnies. :-D of course, it's true... but it sounds funny! ;-) 5 - Posted by
Frosty
on October 13, 2005 - 7:27 am it amazes me that with just 16 pipelines they are able to beat the 7800gtx...
6 - Posted by
handrail
on October 13, 2005 - 10:52 pm the x1800xt does have a higher mem and clock speed though. maybe they can just muscle their way through to higher performance?
7 - Posted by
Brian
on October 13, 2005 - 10:54 pm This is a good read: http://www.thetechlounge.com/news.php?id=7669 Looks like ATI put a lot of work into the new chip and have plenty of room to grow. 8 - Posted by
JGFgKnnI
on March 18, 2008 - 11:28 pm Nice site!
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