X1900GT REVIEW X1900 GT BENCHMARK OVERCLOCK

X1900GT REVIEW X1900 GT BENCHMARK OVERCLOCK
Posted:2006-05-08 By hardware review Number of View:14345
X1900GT REVIEW X1900 GT BENCHMARK OVERCLOCK By :hardware review Posted:2006-05-08 xtreview is your : Video card - cpu - memory - Hard drive - power supply unit source x1900gt review x1900 gt benchmark overclock WE GOT HOLD of one of the first Radeon X1900 GT cards available on the market and had a fiddle. ATI just introduced this card based on its R580 core, but with fewer pipes and with adjusted clock speeds. The R580 core is clocked at 575MHz and the card has 256MB of GDDR 3 memory clocked at 1200MHz. The card features 36 Pixel Shaders and eight vertex Shaders. It is limited to twelve pipelines and it can support Avivo, works in Crossfire but you do need a master card to make it work. It launched at Л†299 price mark, a reasonable price to fight Nvidia\'s Geforce 7900 GT. TUL, a company that carries the Power Color brand made a really nice box (very handy that, Fudo - Ed) for its Radeon X1900 GT card. The package includes a driver CD, Power DVD six program collection, the user manual, two DVI dongles, six pin power cable, S video cable, composite cable, Video in and video out cable and a HD out cable. We decided to compare this card up against Gainward\'s 7900 GT card. This is officially called the Gainward BLISS GeForce 7900 GT, 256MB GDDR3. It is clocked to Nvidia\'s default 450MHz core and 1320MHz memory. It uses GDDR 3 memory with a 256-bit memory bus. It has 24 pixel-pipelines and sounds like a lot of card for $/Л†299. The card comes with Power DVD 5, Gainward\'s acceleration tool and drive CD, quick start manual and free-to-choose, select-your-game voucher. It comes with two DVI dongles, a power cable and HDTV cable. The Radeon X1900 GT is ATI\'s answer to Nvidia\'s 7900 GT as ATI is running out of X1800 XT cards and wants to phase those out but will keep the R520 chips alive as it will have to use them for X1800 GTO cards. x1900gt  Benchmark We used: PowerColor Radeon X1900 GT, 256MB GDDR3 Gainward BLISS Geforce 7900 GT, 256MB GDDR3 Athlon FX 57 2800 MHz 90 nanometre San Diego core 2800 MHz Asus A8N32 Deluxe Nforce 4 SLI X16 motherboard 2x1024 MB Corsair XMS-3500LL PRO memory Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB SATA NCQ hard drive Akasa AK128 EVO Athlon 64 cooler OCZ Power Stream 600W x1900gt  overclock: 575/1200 MHz Doom 3 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 100.3 85.5 66.4 42.2 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 103.5 100.6 90.9 68.8           Doom 3 High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 8X 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 79.0 58.2 42.9 27.6 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 95.2 74.1 55.7 35.6           Far Cry 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 82.58 81.56 82.63 65.56 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 82.25 80.95 82.61 73.45           Far Cry High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 8X 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 82.20 77.35 61.63 21.53 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 81.59 78.23 59.55 36.70           Half Life 2 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 74.79 73.47 72.91 70.75 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 71.52 70.41 69.96 68.80           Half Life2 High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 8X 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 72.57 68.30 62.33 46.88 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 70.93 70.37 67.44 52.48           Quake 4 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 137.0 129.2 112.2 76.7 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 143.1 138.5 128.6 100.1           Quake 4 High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 8X 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 125.3 107.2 85.6 57.0 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 133.7 116.9 95.0 64.6           FEAR 1024x768 1280x960 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 89 71 51 33 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 104 79 57 38           FEAR High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 16X 1024x768 1280x960 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 63 47 31 18 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 66 47 32 20           Serious Sam 2 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 117.2 107.0 83.9 56.6 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 0 0 0 0           Serious Sam 2 + HDR 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 100.0 74.6 53.1 36.9 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 119.4 115.4 93.6 65.6           Serious Sam 2 High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 8X 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 86.2 65.0 49.5 26.3 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 109.3 87.3 61.6 41.5           Serious Sam 2 High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 8X + HDR 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 54.0 30.1 16.3 NO Play           Composite Figures 3Dmark 03 3DMark 03 Game2 Game3 Nature ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 14680 115.3 87.2 96.1 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 16975 135.2 113.2 97.4           Composite Figures 3Dmark 03 Single Texturinng Multi Textur. Vertex Shader Pixel Shader 2.0 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 3020.1 6610.3 57.5 138.8 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 4295.3 10444.7 45.7 360.2           Composite Figures 3Dmark 05 3DMark 05 Game1 Game2 Game3 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 9454 43.0 26.8 47.0 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 7869 33.8 24.1 38.3           Composite Figures 3Dmark 05 Single Texturinng Multi Textur. Pixel Shader VS /VS complex ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 3246.2 6833.9 285.4 110.3/54.7 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 5175.9 10675.0 303.3 61.2/47.0           Composite Figures 3Dmark 06 3DMark 06     ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 4079     Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 4089               SM2.0 Test Score GT1 GT2 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 1693 12.815 15.400 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 1801 14.454 15.560           HDR/SM3.0 Test Score HDR1 HDR2 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 1874 17.984 19.502 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 1784 15.992 16.694           CPU Test Score CPU1 CPU2 ATI X1900GT 575/1200 MHz 1100 0.346 0.559 Gainward 7900GT 450/1320 MHz 1094 0.344 0.556 The Gainward 7900GT dominates in Doom 3. It can get up to 25 frames faster. It is also significantly faster in Doom 3 4X FSAA and 8X Aniso as well and is beating the X1900 GT big time. The scores are tight in Far Cry, as the cards are almost identical, the TUL X1900GT runs just a half frame faster. The Nvidia card manages to run faster at the highest resolution. Power Color\'s X1900GT is slightly faster in Half Life 2. It runs on average three frames per second faster, nothing dramatic. It is faster in 10x7 with FSAA and Aniso on as well but the 7900 GT is taking a lead that increases with resolution. Gainward\'s 7900 GT is faster in every single scenario in Quake 4 and it can get up to 23 frames faster. It is also faster in Quake 4 with FSAA 4X and Aniso 8X and runs from eight to ten frames faster. In F.E.A.R, Gainward\'s 7900 GT is significantly faster than the TUL X1900 GT. It runs five to fifteen frames faster but the TUL X1900 GT can keep up with FSAA and Aniso on. It is either tight, or up to three measly frames slower. The ATI Radeon X1900 GT loses in Battlefield 2 as well. Nvidia is from three to thirteen frames faster but, yet again, ATI looks much better with the FSAA and Aniso on. It is slower by a frame at 10x7 but wins seven by twelve frames in all the other resolutions. We started to use Serious Sam 2 as a test as it has very nice HDR parts of the benchmark. In our newcomer Serious Sam 2 test, the Nvidia 7900 GT duffs up ATI in every single scenario. It runs faster in all resolutions with FSAA, without FSAA, with HDR, with 4X Antialiasing and 8X and can be up to twenty frames faster, sometimes it is more than 40 per cent faster. ATI still wins in High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 8X + HDR as the Nvidian simply cannot do it. You will get decent playability at 10x7 and 12x10 but not at higher resolutions. If you want higher resolution you really need something even faster than this. The Radeon X1900 GT loses in 3Dmark03 by 2300 marks, but it wins in 3Dmark05 by 1580 marks. 3Dmark 06 is really tight but Nvidia wins by 10 marks only. It is interesting to note that the TUL Radeon X1900 GT wins by 90 points in Shader model 3.0 and High Definition Rendering (HDR) test but it is losing in Shader model 2.0 test. In short Based on what we\'ve seen TUL\'s Radeon X1900 GT is a good card but it simply cannot keep up with Gainward\'s 7900 GT card. The Nvidia-powered card simply runs faster and twelve pipes of R580 chip at 585MHz just cannot keep up with it. TUL\'s Radeon X1900 GT has a good price and Avivo as its advantage but as a gaming card it will only run faster if you turn the effects on, and then only in few of the games. The rest will run faster on the Gainward and some of them really significantly faster. The X1900 GT does have the advantage of being able to render with FSAA and HDR on, as you should use those two things together. If you looking to spend around $/Л†300 on a card and you want the top performance in all scenarios, the Geforce 7900 GT is the better choice. Nvidia did a great job with the 7900 GT card and offers a card faster than 7800 GTX for the $/Л†299 price mark and ATI simply needs more pipes to compete with it. If you decide to buy a TUL Radeon X1900 GT you should turn the FSAA and Aniso on and possibly even HDR and then will the card pay off. It will be interesting to see what will ATI do now. xtreview is your : Video card - cpu - memory - Hard drive - power supply unit source we would be happy to answer for your question . if you have suggestion or comment regarding this review our support would be glad to help just join our forum and ask u will get the best answer to discuss check our forum section :-) RATE THIS REVIEW 1 2 3 4 5    / 5   View Stat

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