Comments on graphics test!

[Monstermunch]

March edition of PC Advisor has held a test of currently available graphics cards. I must admit that i'm slightly puzzled as to the outcome:

They tested frame rates from Quake4, Halo, Fear & Doom3 on an Athlon 3800 X2 system. Average framerates over the four tested games were as follows:

Gainward 6800gs Ultra 256mb (73)
MSI NX6600GT 128mb (55.5)
Sapphire X800GTO 256mb (55.1)
Asus N7800GTX 256mb (75.4)
Club 3D X1800XL 256mb (67.6)
Gainward 7800GTX Ultra 256mb (73.6)
Gigabyte GV-NX78T256V-B 7800GT (65.3)
Sapphire X1800XT 512mb (78)

Looking at the figures above you could say that they're all being shown up by the 6800gs.

Comments anyone

 

[Monstermunch]

pc advisor don't know squat to be honest.

I would normally agree, but what's that got to do with a comparible test on the same machine with the same games. The average figure is one I owrked out myself they just state the frame rate for each game.

Oh BTW the figures I gave are for 1280 x 1024 only.

 

[Monstermunch]

Plus, a 3800+ X2 only runs at 2ghz. I t would be a bottleneck for the higher cards

Your gfx card ram/speed etc & your ram would bottleneck before the CPU and I don't think you'll find a 2ghz athlon process or would bottleneck these games at all

 

[Monstermunch]

Plus don't forget many people these days are running games on 19" tft's which run at the 1280 x 1024 res.

One thing i've been meaning to ask is why some people run their games at 1600x1200 etc. I'm currently running a 19"crt and once I get above 1024x768 res in games I can't see any difference. Far more difference in made by AA & AF which unfortunately it doesn't show in this test.

 

[Monstermunch]

You sure the GS weren't in SLI?

Yes single card setup. I'll expand a little more, here are the FPS test results for each of the games running in 1280x1024 on an Evesham Axis MKR (Athlon 3800 X2, 1gb Ram).

Gainward 6800gs Ultra 256mb - Quake4 98.2/Halo 74.8/Fear 43.0/Doom3 75.8 (Average = 73.0)

Sapphire X1800XT 512mb - Quake4 94.0/Halo 94.3/Fear 51.0/Doom3 72.5 (Average = 78.0)