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06 December 2005 |
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Sapphire ATI Radeon X800
GTO (AGP) |
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I have included the benchmarks for your enjoyment if you are still a fan
of 3DMark03. The tests were done both in the default mode as well as 4X
anti-aliasing, and 8X anisotropic filtering. |
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The following benchmarks were done in the Energy Processing level. |
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The following benchmarks were done in a quick run of the AntiCitzen
One level. |
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I determined the average framerates when doing a Quick Race in the
game. I started the benchmark where the cars are being showcased
at the starting line to the end of a lap in the race. It may seem
like the framerates of 29 and 23 even without antialiasing is low, but
the game certainly didn't feel like the framerates were that low.
The game was still very playable. The similar results between
antialiasing on and off show how CPU intensive this game is. It is
my processor which is limiting the frame rates in this case. |
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I used the provided Overclocking utility from Sapphire in order to
overclock the cord. Sapphire calls this utility TriXX. When
opening up the utility, it shows real-time details about the
temperatures and current clock speeds the video card is at. The
card defaulted to a fan speed to about 65%. The default clock of
this card is 490Mhz for the Memory and 400Mhz for the Core. I was
able to successfully overclock the card easily to speeds of 500Mhz for
the core and 500Mhz for the memory, effectively being X850 speeds, a
much more expensive card. I was able to push the card even further to
a maximum clock speed of 530 Mhz and memory speeds of 565. I ran
3DMark03 for a while as a benchmark and was able to reach a 3DMark score
of 10748 under 1024 x 768 resolution and a score of 10164 in 1280 x 1024
resolution. I compared these values to a X800XT in a previous
review and it could not reach the speeds even though the core and memory
speeds were the same. This is where we reach the limitation of the
architecture of the X800 GTO since it has only 12 pipelines as opposed
to the blazing 16 pipelines on an X800XT.
Even though the card was relatively stable, It wasn't exactly
comforting knowing that the GPU has a temperature of 60 degrees Celsius
and a board temperature of 50 degrees Celsius. Because of this, I
would recommend that Sapphire putting some heatsinks on the back of the
board where the RAM is.
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Introduction, The Card |
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Installation, Test Setup & Benchmarks |
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- Benchmark Results, Overclocking |
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Conclusion |
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