System setup and notes
Hardware
| Graphics cards | Inno3D iChiLL 9600 GT ZEROtherm | Palit 8800 GT 512MB Sonic OC | Inno3D 8800GT 512MB | Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512 | Sapphire HD 3850 512 | Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 ULTIMATE 512MiB |
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| Current pricing, including VAT | £115 |
£119 | £109 |
£125 |
£85 |
£108 |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | 4.1 | ||||
| Stream processors | 64 | 112 | 800 | 320 | 320 | |
| GPU clock speed (MHz) | 720 | 650 | 600 | 625 | 666 | 777 |
| Shader clock speed (MHz) | 1,625 | 1,625 | 1,500 | 625 | 666 | 777 |
| Memory clock speed (MHz) | 1,940 | 1,900 | 1,800 | 2,000 | 1,656 | 2,252 |
| Memory bus width (Bits) | 256 | |||||
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Q6700 LGA775 (2.66GHz, 8MiB L2 cache, quad-core) | |||||
| Motherboard | eVGA NF68 (nForce 680i SLI) | ASUS P5K Premium Deluxe WiFi-AP (Bearlake P35) | ||||
| Motherboard BIOS | P31 | 0504 | ||||
| Mainboard software | NVIDIA device driver 15.08 | Intel Inf 8.4.0.1016 | ||||
| Memory | 4GiB (2 x 2GiB) DDR2-1066 | |||||
| Memory timings and speed | 5-5-5-15 2T @ 1,066MHz | |||||
| PSU | Gigabyte ODIN GT 800W | Enermax Galaxy DXX 850W | ||||
| Monitor | Dell 24in 2405WFP - 1,920x1,200 | |||||
| Disk drive(s) | Seagate 160GiB SATAII (ST3160812AS) | |||||
| Graphics driver | NVIDIA ForceWare 175.16 | CATALYST 8.6 press | CATALYST 8.6 | |||
| Operating system | Windows Vista Business, 64-bit | |||||
Software
| 3D Benchmarks | Company Of Heroes: Opposing Fronts v2.103: DX9 and DX10 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars v1.2 (demo_00010.dem, map Valley) Lost Planet: Extreme Condition v1.004 built-in benchmark: DX9 |
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Notes
We're looking at the Inno3D card in the context of both stock-clocked and overclocked GeForce 8800 GT 512MiB cards from Inno3D from Palit, respectively.We've also included benchmarks from another non-reference card - this time in the guise of a Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 that's passively cooled. We believe that it's only fair to look at the immediate competition that's not solely using reference (read cheaper-to-produce) cards.
The recent introduction of the Radeon HD 4850, albeit reference-clocked, will add an interesting angle to performance proceedings. Rounding it off is a Radeon HD 3850 equipped with a 512MiB frame-buffer.
Benchmarks were conducted at 1,280x1,024/720 and 1,680x1,050, both with reasonable I.Q. enhancements.
