System Information and Notes
The X850 PRO is up against the 6800 GT in terms of price, so I grabbed one off the shelf for comparison purposes. X800 256MB's obvious most available NVIDIA competitor is 6600 GT on PCI Express, in the absence of available three-quad 6800s. Look out for memory pressure influencing results in that fight.Hardware
- ATI Radeon X800, R430, 256MB, PEG16X, 390/700
- ATI Radeon X850 PRO, R480, 256MB, PEG16X, 507/520
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Reference Board, NV43, 128MB, PEG16X, 500/1000
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Reference Board, NV45 + BR2, 256MB, PEG16X, 350/1000
- AMD Athlon FX-55, 1MB L2, 2600MHz
- ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, nForce4 SLI, Socket 939, PEG16X
- 1GB OCZ PC3200 Platinum rev2, 2-2-2-5, DDR400
- Western Digital WD360G Raptor, SATA
Software
- Windows XP Professional w/SP2
- DirectX 9.0c Runtime
- ATI CATALYST 5.1 WHQL
- NVIDIA Detonator Release 66.93 WHQL
- 3DMark05 v1.0.0
- ShaderMark 2.1
- D3D RightMark 1.0.5.0 BETA
- Realtime High Dynamic Range Image-Based Lighting v1.2
- GL_EXT_reme
- FRAPS 2.1
- Half-Life 2 - HEXUS Demo
- Doom3 - HEXUS Demo
- Far Cry v1.3 - HEXUS Demo
