Test Setup
by
Lars Weinand
We tested the new GDDR-3 version of the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra once at its default clockspeed and then tried to determine the overclocking potential of the card. For reference, we included the "old" GDDR-2 version of the same card, a GeForce FX 5900 SE and ATi’s Radeon 9600XT.
Since the latencies of GDDR-2 and GDDR-3 memory modules are practically identical, we decided against conducting tests with both cards running at the same memory frequency.
| Test System | |
|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz |
| FSB | 200 MHz |
| Motherboard | ASUS P4P800 Deluxe (i865) |
| Memory | 4x Corsair CMX256A-3200LL (TWINX) |
| HDD | Seagate Barracude 7200.7 120 GB S-ATA (8 MB) |
| DVD | Hitachi GD-7000 |
| LAN | Netgear FA-312 |
| Power Supply | Antec True Control 550W |
| Drivers & Configuration | |
| Graphics | ATI Catalyst v4.3
NVIDIA v56.64 WHQL |
| Chipset | Intel Inf. Update |
| OS | Windows XP Prof. SP1a |
| DirectX | DirectX 9.0b |
| Graphic cards used in this article | |
| ATI | Radeon 9600XT (ATI)
Radeon 9800XT (ATI) |
| NVIDIA | GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (eVGA)
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GDDR-3 (NV) GeForce FX 5900 XT/SE (eVGA) GeForce FX 5950 Ultra (NV) |
| Benchmarks | |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 | Custom Timedemo
Max Details/Quality Map : Assault-Toran |
| Call Of Duty | Custom Timedemo
Max Details/Quality Map : mp_brecourt |
| Halo | Build-in benchmark
Max details PS2.0 |
| Colin McRae Rally 4 | Demo Version
Max Quality FRAPS Meassurement |
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