Test Setup
The GeForce 8800GTX is longer than a Radeon X1950XTX and most other cards on the market. In fact it is 11" long tip to tail. The 8800GTS and other cards on the market are only 9.5" long.
As a comparison with the benchmarks we have produced throughout the entire 2006 calendar year, we ran our initial tests on an AMD Athlon FX-60 based system. We will have subsequent results showing multi-GPU performance. Additionally, we want to show what these new cards can do when the CPU limitations are lifted when testing under low resolution and image quality. (Stay tuned for that...)
System Hardware
Processor(s)
AMD Athlon 64 FX-60
2.6 GHz, 1.0 GHz HT-Link, 1 MB L2 cache
Platform
Nvidia : Asus AN832-SLI Premium
Nvidia nForce4 SLI, BIOS version 1205
RAM
Corsair CMX1024-4400Pro
2x 1024 MB @ DDR400 (CL3.0-4-4-8)
Hard Drive
Western Digital Raptor, WD1500ADFD
150 GB, 10,000 rpm, 16 MB cache, SATA150
Networking
On-Board nForce4 Gigabit Ethernet
Graphics Cards
ATI Radeon X1950XTX 512 MB GDDR4
650 MHz Core
1,000 MHz Memory (2.00 GHz DDR)
Nvidia Based Cards :
Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX 768 MB GDDR3
575 MHz Core
1,350 MHz Streaming Processor
900 MHz Memory (1.80 GHz DDR)
XFX GeForce 8800GTS 640 MB GDDR3
500 MHz Core
1,200 MHz Streaming Processor
800 MHz Memory (1.60 GHz DDR)
Nvidia GeForce 7900GTX 512 MB GDDR3
675 MHz Core
820 MHz Memory (1.64 GHz DDR)
Power Supply
PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1,000W
CPU Cooler
Zalman CNPS9700 LEDSystem Software & Drivers
OS
Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600, Service Pack 2
DirectX Version
9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Graphics Driver(s)
ATI - Catalyst 6.10 WHQL
Nvidia - Forceware 96.94 Beta
slide show : GeForce 8800GTX/GTS
