ATI Radeon X1900 Series Preview

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Kurtis Kronk
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Jan. 24, 2006

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Benchmarks - Quake 4

Quake 4 is built upon the Doom 3 engine, so it wasn't hard to figure out how to record a demo and create a batch file for this game. We recorded some time towards the beginning of the game... I'm not sure precisely where it was recorded because I can't stand this game and I didn't pay attention to what level I was on. The demo represents what I deemed to be average gameplay after playing the game for a couple of (dreadful) hours. As usual, each test was run three times and the results averaged.

Quake 4 @ 1024 x 768
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No AA / No AF

4x AA / 8x AF

XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB

ATI X850 XT PE 256 MB

ATI X1800 XT 512 MB

XFX 6800 GT 256 MB

ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB

FPS

100

No AA / No AF

4x AA / 8x AF

ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB

ATI X1800 XT 512 MB

XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB

XFX 6800 GT 256 MB

ATI X850 XT PE 256 MB

FPS

100

Quake 4 @ 1600 x 1200
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No AA / No AF

4x AA / 8x AF

XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB

ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB

ATI X1800 XT 512 MB

XFX 6800 GT 256 MB

ATI X850 XT PE 256 MB

FPS

100

No AA / No AF

4x AA / 8x AF

ATI X1900 XTX 512 MB

ATI X1800 XT 512 MB

XFX 7800 GTX 256 MB

XFX 6800 GT 256 MB

ATI X850 XT PE 256 MB

FPS

100

At 1024x768 with NoAA/NoAF, all of the cards perform within a few fps of eachother. Cranking it up to 4xAA/8xAF puts the X1900 XTX on top with the X1800 XT performing the same and the 7800 GTX only a couple of fps behind. It's close enough to call 1024x768 a tie.

At 1600x1200 the X1900 XTX and 7800 GTX are pretty much tied at first but with 4xAA/8xAF the X1900 XTX gets 6fps more than the X1800 XT and 13fps more than the 7800 GTX. All 3 of these cards produce playable frame rates throughout, but you don't want to play this game anyways, so let's move on to Need for Speed Most Wanted.

We'd like to thank Directron.com for donating the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 Motherboard which we used for testing.

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Introducing the X1900 Series (R580) / Architecture & New Features
Page 3: The Card (X1900 XTX)
Page 4: Test Setup
Page 5: Benchmarks - Half-Life 2
Page 6: Benchmarks - Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Page 7: Benchmarks - F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon
Page 8: Benchmarks - Quake 4
Page 9: Benchmarks - Need for Speed Most Wanted
Page 10: Closing Thoughts

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3 User Comments

1 - Posted by J2T on May 31, 2007 - 5:53 am

??? time warp?

2 - Posted by Kurtis on May 31, 2007 - 12:17 pm

i'm sure there was a spam post, then the spam was deleted, leaving a bumped thread. =]

3 - Posted by J2T on June 1, 2007 - 6:07 pm

haha, excuses excuses :)

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