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Sapphire X800 Series Roundup
[Abstract]
Sapphire's Radeon SistersIt is not too often that we get a whole posse of hot aliens of the female persuasion dropping in on our labs. Well, we don't actually remember any or at least we don't ...
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Test Setup
All the Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO/GTO2 cards were tested on our PCIe testbed that's configured with an Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz running on an Intel D925XCV motherboard with 1GB of DDR2-533 Micron RAM configured in dual channel mode. Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 and DirectX 9.0c was installed prior to the Catalyst 5.7 drivers for all the Radeon cards compared here.
All the Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO cards follow the reference frequencies of 400MHz for the core and 980MHz DDR for the memory. These clock speeds apply similarly for the Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 in both its 12 pipelines and unlocked 16 pipelines configuration and we have the performance numbers for both. We also included two other Radeon X800 GTO cards from HIS and GeCube for comparison. The HIS Radeon X800 GTO is in its Turbo Mode, which means its core clock is significantly higher at 500MHz and its memory is boosted to 1000MHz. The GeCube Radeon X800 GTO remained at the standard frequencies but with a tweaked BIOS, that should give the card a slight performance edge. Finally, the following benchmarks were tested:
Futuremark 3DMark03 (ver. 360)
Futuremark 3DMark05 (ver. 120)
Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory
FarCry 1.31
Doom 3
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