VGA Charts IV: AGP Graphics Cards
The Test Candidates
The test bed consists of 35 participants this time. Here, we took some of the older cards that were included in the previous VGA Charts. All candidates support DirectX 9, with the exception of the two GeForce 4 Ti models, which we include here because they are highly popular and widespread. Because they can only carry out DirectX 8 shader code, their benchmarks appear in gray in the tables.
New to the group are ATI's Radeon X800 XT PE and X800 Pro, as well as NVIDIA's GeForce 6800 Ultra, 6800 GT and 6800. The ATI Radeon X700 and NVIDIA GeForce 6600, which were recently launched, are only available in PCI Express versions and will be included in the upcoming VGA Charts add-on that centers on PCI Express cards.
Various in-between models, such as the Radeon 9550 and the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 and 5700 LE, are geared for OEMs and are not included here. Each card maker equips these models with the most disparate clock rates, memory bus width and modules. If you are interested in these cards, you should definitely take a careful look at the cards' specs before making a purchase, so that you don't end up with a cheap version that only has a slow 64-bit memory interface and very low clockrates.
Card | Chip | DXGeneration | ChipClock | MemoryClock | BusWidth | Pipes |
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GeForce 6800 Ultra | NVIDIA NV40 | DX 9.0c | 400 | 1100 | 256-bit | 16x1 |
GeForce 6800 GT | NVIDIA NV40 | DX 9.0c | 350 | 1000 | 256-bit | 16x1 |
GeForce 6800 | NVIDIA NV40 | DX 9.0c | 325 | 700 | 256-bit | 12x1 |
GeForce FX 5950 U | NVIDIA NV38 | DX 9 | 475 | 950 | 256-bit | 8x1 |
GeForce FX 5900 U | NVIDIA NV35 | DX 9 | 450 | 850 | 256-bit | 8x1 |
GeForce FX 5900 | NVIDIA NV35 | DX 9 | 400 | 850 | 256-bit | 8x1 |
GeForce FX 5900 XT | NVIDIA NV35 | DX 9 | 400 | 700 | 256-bit | 8x1 |
GeForce FX 5800 U | NVIDIA NV30 | DX 9 | 500 | 1000 | 128-bit | 8x1 |
GeForce FX 5800 | NVIDIA NV30 | DX 9 | 400 | 800 | 128-bit | 8x1 |
GeForce FX 5700 U | NVIDIA NV36 | DX 9 | 475 | 900 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
GeForce FX 5700 | NVIDIA NV36 | DX 9 | 425 | 550 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
GeForce FX 5600 U (FC) | NVIDIA NV31 | DX 9 | 400 | 800 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
GeForce FX 5600 | NVIDIA NV31 | DX 9 | 325 | 550 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
GeForce FX 5200 U | NVIDIA NV34 | DX 9 | 325 | 650 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
GeForce FX 5200 | NVIDIA NV34 | DX 9 | 250 | 400 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
GeForce4 Ti 4600-8x | NVIDIA NV25 | DX 8.1 | 300 | 650 | 128-bit | 4x2 |
GeForce4 Ti 4200-8x | NVIDIA NV28 | DX 8.1 | 250 | 514 | 128-bit | 4x2 |
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Radeon X800 XT PE | ATI R420 | DX 9.0b | 520 | 1120 | 256-bit | 16x1 |
Radeon X800 Pro | ATI R420 | DX 9.0b | 475 | 900 | 256-bit | 12x1 |
Radeon 9800 XT | ATI R360 | DX 9 | 412 | 730 | 256-bit | 8x1 |
Radeon 9800 Pro 256 | ATI R350 | DX 9 | 380 | 700 | 256-bit | 8x1 |
Radeon 9800 Pro | ATI R350 | DX 9 | 380 | 680 | 256-bit | 8x1 |
Radeon 9800 | ATI R350 | DX 9 | 325 | 580 | 256-bit | 8x1 |
Radeon 9800 SE | ATI R350 | DX 9 | 380 | 675 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
Radeon 9700 Pro | ATI R300 | DX 9 | 325 | 620 | 256-bit | 8x1 |
Radeon 9700 | ATI R300 | DX 9 | 275 | 540 | 256-bit | 8x1 |
Radeon 9600 XT | ATI RV360 | DX 9 | 500 | 600 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
Radeon 9600 Pro | ATI RV350 | DX 9 | 400 | 600 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
Radeon 9600 | ATI RV350 | DX 9 | 325 | 400 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
Radeon 9600 SE | ATI RV350 | DX 9 | 325 | 365 | 64-bit | 4x1 |
Radeon 9500 Pro | ATI R300 | DX 9 | 275 | 540 | 128-bit | 8x1 |
Radeon 9500 128 | ATI R300 | DX 9 | 275 | 540 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
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XGI V8 Duo | V8 | DX 9 | 350 | 900 | 2x128-bit | 2x 8x1 |
XGI V5 Ultra | V5 | DX 9 | 350 | 700 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
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S3 S8 256 | S8 | DX 9 | 300 | 300 | 128-bit | 4x1 |
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