Gigabyte GV-R80P256D Radeon X800Pro Graphics Card Review (3)
Jon 19 Oct 2004

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Benchmarking:

This is the system used for testing : 
AMD AthlonXP 3200+
MSI K7N2G-L Motherboard
512 MB DDR memory
Integrated sound Realtek ALC650 controller
Gigabyte Radeon X800 Pro, ATI Radeon 9800 XT and nVidia GeforceFX 5950
Windows XP Pro

The three graphics cards were run through the following set of benchmarks:

• AquaMark3
• 3DMark 2003
• 3dMark 2001 SE 
• UT2K3
• Quake III
• Final Fantasy XI

AquaMark3 :
“AquaMark3 is a powerful tool to determine reliable information about the gaming performance of a computer system. Because the benchmark extensively utilizes DirectX9, DirectX8 and DirectX7 functionality, it represents the requirements of typical gaming applications in 2004.” This benchmark was run at 1024x768, anti-aliasing off, 4x AF, and with the highest details.

The chart above shows the total score given by Aquamark3, and reveals about the huge difference in performance between the two generations of boards, the X800 Pro scoring more than 7000 points more than previous generation Radeon 9800XT and GeforceFX 5950 video cards.

3DMark03:

3DMark03 is the next generation of video benchmarks from FutureMark featuring "full DirectX9.0a support with completely new tests and graphics, 3DMark03 Pro continues the legacy of being the industry standard benchmark.” The results are reported as unitless “Marks”, and the following are based on the graphics cards being set to a resolution of 1024x768, 32 Bit, 4x anisotropic filtering.

3D Mark 2003 confirms once again the jump in performance of the new generation cards. It's interesting to notice how close the GeforceFX 5950 and the Radeon 9800 XT perform in this benchmark, the difference is almost unnoticeable.

3DMark2001SE:
FutureMark's 3DMark2001SE is a benchmark for DirectX8 video performance that will "empower you to make informed hardware assessments. The game tests, texturing tests, filtering tests, image quality tests, and others give you an overview of your system’s current performance and show you what kind of performance you could expect if you were to upgrade your PC." Als8o available in one form as a free download, anyone can test their system and use the online results browser to analyze their score. The results graphed below use the same unitless "Marks" as 3DMark03, and were obtained running at a resolution of 1024x768, 32 Bit, D3D, with anti-aliasing turned off.

No surprise here, we can clearly see the Radeon X800 Pro performing really well.

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