7950GT 512mb Arrived

dheyworth1981 · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:24

Am I to expect an increase or decrease in perfomance from a X1900XT 512mb...?

Also any reason why the heatsink on the BFG one is a fraction of the size of the x1900xt (connect3d) one?

Devlish · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:26

would be interested in your benchmarks, can ya post em?

dheyworth1981 · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:30

No idea, im at work and I just got a shiny box sat next to me on my desk.

Devlish · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:41

Haha been there. Adds about 16 hours to the day when ya got a new toy and they make you work. Let us know how it goes.

Alexrose1uk · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:43

dheyworth1981 said:
Am I to expect an increase or decrease in perfomance from a X1900XT 512mb...?

Decrease afaik. The 1900XT 512MB is still a very respectable card.

dheyworth1981 · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:46

Ill post my 3dmark stats when I get home

According to tomshardware theres a slight increase over the x1900 at stock speeds

BFG is "out of box" overclocked by a few mhz anyway, and i know the x1900 is a nice card to overclock...but i wasnt to interested in that.

SAM81 · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:49

dheyworth1981 said:
Am I to expect an increase or decrease in perfomance from a X1900XT 512mb...?

no offence mate but if you have no idea wehther youd get an increase/decrease in performance why did you buy the card??

dheyworth1981 · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:56

Other one wasnt mine, I was testing it as it had problems with it
Had enough of the problems so just went and got a new card

Didnt want too much of a performance drop though, been playing with it too long to suffer a downgrade

Darkwave · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:58

J.D · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:59

dheyworth1981 said:
Other one wasnt mine, I was testing it as it had problems with it
Had enough of the problems so just went and got a new card

Didnt want too much of a performance drop though

Well on that point it's a good buy.

If the X1900 was only a few quid extra you should've maybe opted for that. Better image quality and HDR & AA capable and a little bit more powerful. Tomayto, Tomahto.

Darkwave · 7 Dec 2006 at 11:59

Slower and more expensive than the X1900XT 256MB, with inferior image quality and no HDR+AA support. I'm not sure what happened to your X1900XT, but you've made a downgrade here.

J.D · 7 Dec 2006 at 12:02

Snap. lol

dheyworth1981 · 7 Dec 2006 at 12:05

I shall ignore I even had the x1900xt and compare it with my 9600xt

As long as it boots reliably ill be happy

J.D · 7 Dec 2006 at 12:07

Lol that's the spirit. Enjoy your new card. It's no slouch.

All the best and happy xmas.

Tick, tock, tick, tock of the clock. It'll be in your PC soon.

dheyworth1981 · 7 Dec 2006 at 12:25

Grrr....4 hours of work, now I got to shopping as well afterwards

dheyworth1981 · 7 Dec 2006 at 18:54

Setup as in sig

With Radeon x1900xt
3dmark 5398
sm2 2161
hdr 2410
cpu 1644

With Nvidia 7950GT 'oc'
3dmark 5229
sm2 2242
hdr 2183
cpu 1597

The CPU is the same so i guess we can ignore that. SM2 is slight higher, and SM3 is lower.

Im pleased with this, and at least the system will boot 100% of the time now, which means i can start playing with the cpu speeds.

J.D · 7 Dec 2006 at 20:20

Nice one!.

Is your CPU @ stock speeds?. I use an X2 3800 @ 2.8Ghz and I get 2147 for cpu score.

LoadsaMoney · 7 Dec 2006 at 20:31

Ouch, what a downgrade.

Gashman · 7 Dec 2006 at 20:52

yeah sure its a downgrade but the 7950s clock well, plus there not that far behind the 1900XT, plus they generate less heat, use less power and as in ALL benchmarks don't forget to add there preference, which is openGL based games, which more NVIDIA cards do better than there ATI counterparts

Darkwave · 7 Dec 2006 at 21:15

Gashman said:
which is openGL based games, which more NVIDIA cards do better than there ATI counterparts

You mean like the 5fps advantage to 7900GT in Quake 4? Even if you take all the benchmarks, including OpenGL benchmarks specifically, the X1950Pro still comes off better so much more often it's unfunny.