x1600 pro AGP

[darren.head]

9800 pro has just died and with £100 to replace it, I came across the x1600 PRO AGP.
Anybody know how these would compare to a 6600GT or a 6800NU?

 

[oweneades]

According to Hilbert's review from Guru3d.com the 6600gt trounces the X1600XT in pretty much all of the benchmarks tested. However other sites say otherwise.

The 6800NU would be definately faster but the 6600gt would be around the same performance so which ever you can get cheaper is better.

 

[ACESHIGH]

According to Hilbert's review from Guru3d.com the 6600gt trounces the X1600XT in pretty much all of the benchmarks tested.

This is not true !

I just reread the review myself.

The X1600XT is faster than the 6600GT in all the tests except Aquamark where its a few FPS slower & Doom3.

Quoted from Guru3D "The Radeon X1600 XT then, a very striking series. For the money that is going to be one kickass mid-range product ! For the money you have to pay this card will bring the most performance. It's the new GeForce 6600 GT and can be compared to it from a performance and feature level, in most cases it definitely was faster though. It offers heaps of features and functionality for a fair sum of money. This series can be a big hit as the performance it offers is rather good."

As for the 6800, it beats it in some tests & loses in others.


This was with beta drivers (at the time) which have been improved upon since. So performance overall should be better.

 

[darren.head]

Thanks for the replies! So how do you think the x1600 pro agp will perform? I don't know of an x1600xt for agp yet? I have seen one set of results from germany where the x1600pro agp performs worse in 3dmark 03, better in 3dmark 05 and its doom3 performance was quite poor at around 31 fps @ 1280x 1024. these results are against a 6600gt

 

[ACESHIGH]

Thanks for the replies! So how do you think the x1600 pro agp will perform? I don't know of an x1600xt for agp yet? I have seen one set of results from germany where the x1600pro agp performs worse in 3dmark 03, better in 3dmark 05 and its doom3 performance was quite poor at around 31 fps @ 1280x 1024. these results are against a 6600gt

That sounds about right i would say & i would imagine that DirectX games like Half life 2 would then be faster on the X1600pro. They are probably comparable cards. (note - the X1600XT is faster than the X1600pro).