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Review: GeCube vs Sapphire - Radeon X1950 Pro AGP: the must-have upgrade?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 4 April 2007, 08:35

Tags: ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD)

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Far Cry v1.33 performance





Considering the differences in the testing platforms the AGP version fare pretty well at the 1280x1024 4xAA 8xAF Far Cry test.

The Sapphire card matches the ASUS PCIe version, and both are clocked in at the same frequencies, albeit the Sapphire AGP has twice the framebuffer.



Raising the resolution and removing AA, to keep the framerate smooth, we see that the AGP X1950 Pros continue to provide fluid framerates. The twin evils of bridging and AGP's relatively low bandwidth don't have much of an impact upon performance, really.

The venerable Radeon X800 XT PE 256MiB also performs well in this test, but it's running the SM2.0 codepath. All others run SM3.0.