System setup and notes
Hardware
- Gainward GeForce 6800 GT Ultra/2400 Golden Sample Goes Like Hell 256MB, 8x AGP, 350/100 and400/1200 enhanced
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB, 8x AGP, 400/1000
- ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, PCIe, 520/1120
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB, 8x AGP, 350/1000
- AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU, 2.2GHz, S939 for AGP-equipped cards
- Intel Pentium 4 560 3.6GHz Prescott CPU, LGA775, for ATI PCIe card
- EPoX 9NDA3+ nForce3 250 Gb S939 motherboard
- DFI LANPARTY 925X-T2 Alderwood motherboard
- 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair DDR2 Twin2X, 3-3-3-10 @ DDR533
- 1GByte (2x512MB Crucial Ballistix PC4000, 2-2-2-5 @ DDR400
- Samcheer 420w PSU
- Intel S478, LGA775 reference coolers
- AMD Athlon 64 reference cooler
- WD 160JB 160GB hard drive (PATA)
- Dell P991 19" flat-faced CRT monitor
Software
- Windows XP Professional w/SP2
- NVIDIA ForceWare 63.93
- ATI CATALYST 4.11
- Intel 6.0.1.1002 and NVIDIA 5.10 chipset drivers
- DirectX 9.0c Runtime
- 3DMark03 v350
- Xpand Rally Demo - HEXUS Custom Benchmark
- Unreal Tournament 2004 Retail (patched up to 3323 - HEXUS custom benchmark)
- Tiger Woods 2005 - HEXUS Custom golf shot
- DOOM 3 - Timedemo 1 - High quality
Notes
Gainward's GLH GeForce 6800 GT will be compared against reference Ultra and GT cards clocked in at 400/1000 and 350/1000, respectively. Only results from Gainward's enhanced clock speeds will be recorded in graphs, as base clocks of 350/1000 are indistinguishable from a reference 'GT's. An ATI Radeon X800 XT PE PCIe card has also been thrown in for good measure. The aspect to note here is that the X800 XT PE's run off a Pentium 4 560 and i925X combination, so results might look a trifle strange when compared against the NVIDIA AGP cards' AMD Athlon 64 3500+/nForce3 250 combination. However, as soon as the tests become GPU-bound, we should see a clear and consistent set of results emerge.
On to the tests.
