Initial Performance
While we've yet to run the BFG 7800 GS OC™ on our AGP reference platform, we have had the chance to run a few bits and pieces from the HEXUS test suite on a decent AGP system.| System Specification | |
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| Mainboard | Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP-940 |
| Processor | AMD Athlon FX-53, Socket 940, 12 x 200 |
| Memory | 2GiB DDR400 Registered SDRAM, 200MHz, 3-3-3-8 |
| Graphics | BFG GeForce 7800 GS OC™ 400/625, AGP8X, G70 + BR2 |
| Software List | |
| Windows XP w/ SP2 NVIDIA ForceWare 83.40 Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Quake IV Far Cry |
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Performance
Compared to the GeForce 6800 GS we reviewed recently on nForce4 PCI Express, with FX-57, the BFG 7800 GS on AGP with FX-53 is ahead by over 80% at 1280x1024. Clocks and shader unit setup see to that.
The gains aren't as massive as with Quake 4, but over 30% more performance is had at 1280x1024.
Compared to a recent test of X1600 XT on PCI Express, with Athlon 64 4000+ (equal to our FX-53 in the AGP system), the BFG 7800 GS OC™ is ahead by over 50% in our Far Cry benchmark.
Initial Performance Summary
While we're cross comparing to PCI Express systems with different CPUs and drivers, invalidating the numbers in a scientific sense, you can see the performance potential locked in to GeForce 7800 GS on AGP. It seems nicely ahead of anything readily available on AGP, brand new from retail.We'll link to the full evaluation from this page as soon as it's done.
