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Review: ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 4-vendor Roundup

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 19 July 2006, 09:08

Tags: ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD)

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System Setup and Notes

Hardware

  • ATI Radeon X1900 XTX Roundup Test Platform
Processor(s) AMD Athlon 64 FX-57
2.8GHz, single-core, 1MiB L2, San Diego, Socket 939
Mainboard(s) ASUS A8R32-MVP
Memory 2GiB DDR-400
Memory Timings 2-3-2-6, 1T
BIOS Version 0311
Disk Drive Seagate ST3160812AS, 160GB, SATA2
ULi M17
Graphics Card(s) GeCube GC-X1900XTXD-VIE3
MSI RX1900XTX-VT2D512E
Sapphire Radeon X1900 XTX
ASUS EAX1900XTX/2DHTV/512M
Graphics Driver ATI CATALYST 6.2
Operating System Windows XP Professional, SP2, 32-bit
Core Logic Driver(s) 5.1.2600.2180

Software

Test Software
  • X3: Reunion Demo
  • Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
  • Quake 4

Notes

Driver defaults were used throughout, and stock clocks were used for all cards. If in-game controls could be used for both antialiasing and anisotropic texture filtering, they were, otherwise the driver was used to force the required levels (if applicable and the game allowed it without rendering errors). Tested resolutions were 1600x1200 and 1920x1200.

Game tests were run a minimum of three times at each setting, and the median value reported. In the case of manual 'run-through' testing with FRAPS, three consecutive runs that produced repeatable results, after further analysis, were used. If values weren't part of a repeatable set, they were discarded and obtained again.

If you have any questions about our testing methods, please feel free to ask at any time in the HEXUS.community.