System setup and notes
Hardware
| Graphics Cards | ASUS EN8800GTS/HTDP/320 320MiB | ECS N8800GTS-320MX 320MiB | ASUS EN8800GTS/HTDP/640M 640MiB | OCZ GeForce 8800 GTX 768MiB | HIS Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MiB | Sapphire Radeon X1950 XTX 512MiB | ||
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| GPU/Shader/Memory clocks | 513/1188/1584 | 575/1350/1800 | 743/743/1656 | 648/648/1998 | ||||
| Shader model | SM4.0 | SM3.0 | ||||||
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93GHz, 4MiB L2 cache, LGA775) | |||||||
| Motherboard | EVGA nForce 680i SLI | ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe (975X+ICH7R) | ||||||
| Memory | 2GiB (2 x 1024) Corsair PC8500 EPP | 2GiB (2 x 1024) Patriot XLBK | ||||||
| Memory timings and speed | 4-4-4-12 2T @ 800MHz (PC6400) | |||||||
| PSU | FSP Epsilon 600W | |||||||
| Monitor | Dell 2405FPW - 1920x1200 | |||||||
| Disk drive(s) | Seagate 160GB SATAII (ST3160812AS) | |||||||
| Mainboard software | NVIDIA platform driver 9.53 | Intel Inf 8.0.1.1002 | ||||||
| Graphics driver | ForceWare 158.19 | ForceWare 97.02 | ForceWare 158.19 | CATALYST 7.5 Beta (8.37.4-070419a-046506E-ATI) | ||||
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional, w/ SP2, 32-bit | |||||||
Software
| 3D Benchmarks |
Far Cry v1.33 Quake 4 v1.30 Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory v1.05 |
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Notes
We're comparing the ASUS EN8800GTS/HTDP/320's performance against a select band of other high-end graphics cards. Clocked in at the same speeds on all counts is the ECS N8800GTS-320MX. However, we've run the ASUS with a newer set of ForceWare drivers and you'll see the difference in the upcoming graphs.We've also added in ASUS' very own 640MiB version and an OCZ GeForce 8800 GTX, again with the newer ForceWare 158.19 drivers. Completing the comparison from the green/red team are the HIS Radeon HD 2900 XT and Sapphire X1950 XTX SKUs. Both sport 512MiB framebuffers but the former has more potential clout in upcoming SM4.0-enabled games.
Benchmarks were conducted at 1600x1200 and 1920x1200. We also added in image enhancement through the use of 4x antialiasing and 8/16x anistotropic filtering.
No untoward issues to report during testing, so let's hop to it. [advert]
