First post, by pete8475
- Rank
- Oldbie
Cards:
Gainward 5900XT 128MB AGP
Galaxy 6800XT 128MB AGP
Test System:
Asus A8V Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64X2 4600+
3GB DDR RAM (2 x 1gb, 2 x 512mb)
Windows XP Pro SP3
Driver versions:
5900XT - 175.19
6800XT - 307.83
I was unsure if the 6800XT would actually be faster or slower, there's lots of differing memory bandwidths and so on listed online for these cards.
Anyway I've been running some benchmarks and this is what I've found so far. Synthetic benchmarks are stock program settings, UT2003 is done with the benchmark.exe in the game folder and at 1280x960. FEAR is set to high detail.
5900XT:
38503 - Aquamark
16468 - 3dmark 2000
15985 - 3dmark 2001SE
5150 - 3dmark 03
1002 - 3dmark 05
283 - 3dmark 06
156.88fps - UT2003 Flyby
100.54fps - UT2003 Botmatch
8fps - FEAR (1280x720)
4fps - FEAR (1920x1080)
5900XT (500 core / 800 mem):
46712 - Aquamark
16512 - 3dmark 2000
17463 - 3dmark 2001SE
6148 - 3dmark 03
1239 - 3dmark 05
326 - 3dmark 06
188.56fps - UT2003 Flyby
106.16fps - UT2003 Botmatch
10fps - FEAR (1280x720)
5fps - FEAR (1920x1080)
6800XT:
46555 - Aquamark
16312 - 3dmark 2000
17546 - 3dmark 2001SE
6736 - 3dmark 03
2461 - 3dmark 05
1092 - 3dmark 06
163.08fps - UT2003 Flyby
97.40fps - UT2003 Botmatch
28fps - FEAR (1280x720)
14fps - FEAR (1920x1080)
6800XT overclocked (420 core / 470 mem):
54089 - Aquamark
16487 - 3dmark 2000
18899 - 3dmark 2001SE
7775 - 3dmark 03
2873 - 3dmark 05
191.09fps - UT2003 Flyby
99.33fps - UT2003 Botmatch
33fps - FEAR (1280x720)
16fps - FEAR (1920x1080)
There seems to be lots of overclocking headroom on the 6800XT as well, so far I've tested up to 425mhz core and 475mhz memory with no issues.
EDIT - I'm installing F.E.A.R right now so I'll get some numbers on that after dinner. I'm open to suggestions on other old games to try, provided I have them.
EDIT 2 - Trashed all the Quake 3 results, I think the texture quality wasn't maxed and it was only on bilinear in some of the testing.
EDIT 3 - Redoing all the UT2003 testing, I suspect it's not actually running at 1600x1200. I took a screenshot and it was only 1600x900 pixels on the FX5900XT. Redid UT2003 at 1280x960.
EDIT 9999 - Realized all the 5900XT results were at overclocked speeds, getting stock results now.