Posted:2006-06-06 By hardware review Number of View:468092
6800XT REVIEW 6800XT BENCHMARK
OVERCLOCK
By :hardware review
Posted:2006-06-06
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what is the the 6800xt:the card look like the 6800le it s come with nv40 gpu
it has 8 pixel and 4 vertex pipelines.the card should come cloocked at
325 MHz for the gpu and the ram will operate at 700 MHz (256 bit as
bus width ) using the nvidia clock referance as u know that some
Manufacturers sell preoverclocked card the one witch will be tested
today has
come with 425 MHz for the core and 500 MHz the memory .the card come
clocked a bit high if we taked in our mind the nvida referance clock
but it come guaranted to work at those clock and operate stably
as a referance also here is the hole serie specification
Memory Interface
Memory
Memory Bandwidth
Memory Data Rate
core clock
Pixels per Clock (peak)
Textures per Pixel*
6800 utra
256-bit
512 MB
35.2 GB/sec.
1050 MHz
425 MHz
16
6
6800 gt
256-bit
256mb
32 GB/sec.
1000 MHz
350 MHz
16
6
6800
256-bit
256mb/
128mb
22.4GB/sec.
700 MHz
325 MHz
12
5
6800 xt
256-bit
256mb/
128mb
22.4GB/sec.
700 MHz
325 MHz
8
4
6600gt
128-bit
256mb/
128mb
16 GB/sec.
1000 MHz
500 MHz
8
4
what (XT) mean: in ati language xt mean xtreme edition it s alwais come with high end card such 1900xtxt or
1800xt etc... but in nvidia side the xt mean cripled budget card
lower pipeline unit ,lower gpu clock and memory to get the price of the card down
here is full specification list for the nvidia geforce 6 gpu:
CineFX 3.0 Engine
Powers
the next generation of cinematic realism. Full support for Microsoft®
DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 enables stunning and complex special
effects. Next-generation shader architecture delivers faster and
smoother gameplay.
NVIDIA® PureVideoв„ў Technology
NVIDIA®
PureVideoв„ў technology is the combination of a high-definition video
processing core and software that delivers unprecedented picture
clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for
video content. It delivers home-theater quality high-definition video. Features varies by product.
Programmable Video Processor
NVIDIA
PureVideo is a programmable technology that can adapt to new video
formats as they are developed, providing a future-proof video solution.
NVIDIA SLI Technology
Delivers
up to 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled
gaming experiences by allowing two graphics cards to run in parallel.
The must-have feature for performance PCI Express graphics, SLI
dramatically scales performance on today's hottest games. NVIDIA SLI certified versions of select GeForce PCI Express GPUs only.
UltraShadow II Technology
Enhances
the performance of bleeding-edge games, featuring complex scenes with
multiple light sources and objects. 2nd-generation technology delivers
more than 4x the shadow processing power over the previous generation.
64-Bit Floating Point Texture Filtering and Blending
Based on the OpenEXR technology from Industrial Light & Magic (http://www.openexr.com/),
NVIDIA’s 64-bit texture implementation delivers state-of-the-art high
dynamic-range (HDR) visual effects through floating point capabilities
in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending.
Intellisample 3.0 Technology
The
industry’s fastest antialiasing delivers ultra-realistic visuals, with
no jagged edges, at lightning-fast speeds. Visual quality is taken to
new heights through a new rotated grid sampling pattern.
nView Multi-Display Technology
The
NVIDIA® nView® hardware and software technology combination delivers
maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides
unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience. NVIDIA
GPUs are enabled to support multi-displays, but graphics cards vary.
Please verify multi-display support in the graphics card before
purchasing.
NVIDIA® Digital Vibrance Control® 3.0 Technology
Allows
the user to adjust color controls digitally to compensate for the
lighting conditions of their workspace, in order to achieve accurate,
bright colors in all conditions.
PCI Express Certified
Designed
to run perfectly with the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture.
This new bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8x delivering over 4GB/s in
both upstream and downstream data transfers.
What is Shader Model 3
The shader model 3 is an optimized shader
model 2.there is no new visual effect .in other word it is a
performance booster is some case over the smart shader 3 .especially
with new game patch you can see a great performance improvement sm3 .
and of corse u will get smouther gaming using sm3 there is a game
support. so u sould be happpy with nvidia geforce series 7 and 6 they
fully support the sm3 and yes it help in some game and improve a lot
the gaming performance
what is HDR
called high dynamic rendering.HDR is something you all know from games like Far Cry. It's extremely
bright lighting that brings a really cool cinematic effect to gaming.
This effect is becoming extraordinarily popular.
HDR
is already present in Far Cry, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Serious Sam
2 and in Half Life 2: Lost Coast. It will be available in Unreal 3 and
likely a large number of other games, not to mention 3DMark06. Let the screenshots do the talking and click away.
Windows XP Professional SP1 NVIDIA nForce4 Platform Driver 6.39 DirectX 9.0c End User Runtime ForceWare 81.89 RivaTuner 2.0 (tweak utility)
Game List Used for Test:
Far Cry Splinter Cell 3 3DMark03 3DMark05 Serious Sam 2 Doom 3 Quake 4
note the card used in our 6800xt review came with 425 gpu and 1000 MHz memory DDR 3.
6800xt gaming benchmark
Serious Sam 2
here the 6800xt was beaten by all other
card the 6600gt win here by 1 fps ,thanks to the high clocked
gpu(500mhz ) . the 256 -bit memory bus of the 6800xt is no helping at
all it still toped out with 6600gt witch have only 128-bit memory
interface.but the 6800 xt is providing enough fps to play with some
moderated high setting the game and enjoy the game play
Splinter cell
wow 138 fps for the 7800gtx card. the
geforce 7 gpu is a lot better than 6 one . the 6800xt is
performance is good here it score 76 fps even higher than the 6800 witch
come with more vertex and pixel shader. the core clock played a
large role in this benchmark remenber that the 6800xt card used was
preoverclocked 425/1000 MHz witch higher
by 100 MHz than the nvidia stock referance
here is now some result with Hdr enabled
.the only geforce 6 gpu presenting respectable frame rate was the one in 6800gt
. the 6800xt here top the 6600gt and the 6800 by 5
and 1 fps respectivly. the 7800gtx card is provinding awesome
performance .with 101 fps witch more than enough
Quake 4
based in open gl witch performing very well in nvidia card (Thanks for nvidia optimized driver)
nothink especial here it look clearly that the 6800xt performance is somewhere between the 6800gt and 6800 .except
for the 6600gt win here over the 6800 by 1 fps . all the card has
pretty smilar performance lets know move to 16aa and 8 af and see
results
first I would notice impressive performance
of the 7800gtx card look not even 1 fps drop . all the other card geforce 6 serie has soufer from the high setting but they still
producing enough fps for good game play with full graphic setting
enabled.no change here again the 6800xt confirm its place over the
6600gt card
farcry
the setting used was 1600/1200 resolution .
all the card are providing respectable fps but I alwais enjoyed gaming
with 60 fps++ as frame rate.the 6800xt is compliting with 6800 card
about the same fame rate. the 6800xt out scored the 6600 gt by 9 fps
witch is nice result.
Lets see now some synthetic benchmark
3d2003 benchmark result
the result of this benchmark confirm the
performance of the 6800xt card.it is again somwhere better than 6600gt
and equal or higher from the 6800 stock
6800xt 3d 2005 benchmark result
The same here for 3d mark 2005 and the 6800xt performance
6800xt Overclocking
as u know the card come preoverclocked so I was not excepting a high overclock from it.generally the nv 40 gpu
should overclock in 400 MHz ++ range
Referance clock
Card used
6800xt overclocked result
Core clock
400 Mhz
425 Mhz
475 Mhz
Memory Clock
500 MHz (1000 MHz )
500 MHz (1000 MHz )
1280 Mhz
The overclocking result of the 6800xt is
pretty good. The onboard DDr 3 memory is also dowing well with 280 MHz
of overclock ,about 25% from the memory and 12% from the gpu.
lets see how much of gaming improvement we have got from this overclock
about 15 % of performance increse should be
right with the overclocked 6800xt. u can clearly see a nice boost of 10
fps aproxsimativly is those game.
Coclusion of our 6800xt review
First I want to note : the card used in our
test was coupled with DDR 3 memory and preoverclocked card so the
6800xt as nvidia referance card should be a lot lower
325/700 vs 425/1000 this should be about 25% boost . please check twice the card clock before making any order.
The 6800xt is now a good low range card
witch provide enough fps for medium to high setting gaming .u could
also consider the 7600gt witch is now the middle range card u can check
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