GEFORCE 7900 GTX CO SUPERCLOCKED -7900 GTX VS X1900XTX

GEFORCE 7900 GTX CO SUPERCLOCKED -7900 GTX VS X1900XTX
Posted:2006-04-08 By The Game Number of View:403111
GEFORCE 7900 GTX CO SUPERCLOCKED -7900 GTX VS X1900XTX By :The Game Posted:2006-04-08 xtreview is your : Video card - cpu - memory - Hard drive - power supply unit source First Inpressions EVGA Geforce 7900 GTX CO Superclocked, 512MB Overclocked EVGA 7900 GTX versus X1900 XTX is close call NVIDIA relesead G71 cards and naturally EVGA, Gainward, XFX and BFG managed to overclock the cards. G71 is a die shrink of G70, features 24 pixel pipelines with each featuring two shader units, reference clocks of 650MHz core and 1600MHz GDDR 3. Well the overclocking companies managed to get even more out of it. EVGA, just for an instance, released its 7900 GTX 512 card clocked at 69 MHz core and an absolutely whopping 1760MHz memory. The card is equipped with a quad heat pipe cooler, and looks almost identical to 7800 GTX 512 cards, as a matter a fact it is just a little bit faster than it. The box includes a manual, a single DVI to AGP dongle, six pin PCIe power cable, S video cable and a cable with ins and outs. There are no any games bundled with this rather expensive card. People expected a lot from this card, 32 pipelines at least but we are still stacked at 24 and the performance is faster than 7800 GTX 512 but not that drastically to make you cry. We compared this overclocked EVGA card with ATI Reference Radeon X1900 XTX card clocked at its reference 650 MHz core and 1550 MHz GDDR 3 memory. Benchmark: Geforce 7900 GTX CO Superclocked We used : Athlon FX 57 2800 MHz 90 nanometre San Diego core GEFORCE 7900 GTX 512 MB 690 MHz / 1760 MHz Radeon X1900 XTX 650 MHz / 1550 MHz Asus A8N32 Deluxe Nforce 4 SLI X16 motherboard 2x1024 MB Corsair XMS-3500LL PRO memory Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB SATA NCQ hard drive Akasa AK128 EVO Athlon 64 cooler Akasa 650W multi rail PSU OCZ Power Stream 600W Doom 3 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 108.7 105.0 95.1 66.2 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 111.2 110.9 108.3 94.3           Doom 3 High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 8X 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 100.8 85.4 86.5 44.6 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 109.3 97.2 79.3 52.9           Far Cry 1024x768 1280x960 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 82.34 82.52 84.34 81.96 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 83.49 83.84 84.39 84.45   Far Cry High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 8X 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 83.51 82.62 80.94 61.02 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 87.44 86.67 83.14 56.10           Quake 4 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 146.5 141.2 134.3 112.4 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 152.6 149.1 144.6 131.2           Quake 4 High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 8X 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 137.3 129.4 116.6 89.7 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 146.1 137.2 117.6 90.2           FEAR 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 112 88 69 49 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 128 109 84 58           FEAR High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 16X 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 84 66 50 34 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 97 71 50 33           Battlefield 2 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 116.74 108.32 96.03 84.18 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 99.62 99.51 98.74 95.08           Battlefield 2 High Quality FSAA 4X + Aniso 8X 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 96.75 96.27 94.53 74.79 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 99.27 98.89 87.62 61.08           Composite Figures 3Dmark 03 3DMark 03 Game2 Game3 Game3 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 18475 153.3 112.7 118.7 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 23270 196.0 157.6 138.5           Composite Figures 3Dmark 03 Single Texturinng Multi Textur. Vertex Shader Pixel Shader 2.0 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 4317.6 9814.8 65.2 210.8 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 5920.5 15806.0 67.8 527.4           Composite Figures 3Dmark 05 3DMark 05 Game1 Game2 Game2 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 11345 47.3 33.3 59.4 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 11277 46.2 35.2 56.4           Composite Figures 3Dmark 05 Single Texturinng Multi Textur. Pixel Shader VS/VS complex ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 5065.3 10102.5 439.3 141.8/61.9 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 6875.1 16232.3 453.9 91.5/71.1           Composite Figures 3Dmark 06 3DMark 06     ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 5147     EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 5520               SM2.0 Test Score GT1 GT2 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 2298 17.780 20.519 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 2730 21.915 23.577           HDR/SM3.0 Test Score HDR1 HDR2 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 2574 24.745 26.738 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 2630 23.756 28.837           CPU Test Score CPU1 CPU2 ATI X1900XTX 650/1550 MHz 1097 0.345 0.557 EVGA 7900GTX 690/1960 MHz 1106 0.348 0.563 Well it was not so easy to judge this card. 7900 GT overclocked was easy it was a clear winner while this card has a really tough time against ATI. Lets analyze the scores. EVGA card will win in Doom 3. it will be up to 30 frames faster. But the situation changes as soon as you turn the FSAA on. X1900 XTX will still lose in first two resolutions but at 12x10 will be slightly faster than overclocked 7900 GTX 512 card while EVGA card again wins at 20x15. Far Cry is tight, the difference is irrelevant and you can not draw any conclusion from it. The results will be tight even with 4X FSAA and 8X Aniso. Nvidia will win by some three frames at first three resolutions while ATI will win in 20x15. Still too close to claim a win. 7900 GTX wins at Quake 4 and can run up to 20 frames faster at ultra high resolutions. ATI can catch up at the two highest resolutions with a single frame difference. EVGA 7900 GTX owns the FEAR scores. It is significantly faster in every single case. It can get up to 20 frames faster and in this game this is a lot. Once again ATI gets more competitive when you turn FSAA and Aniso. ATI still lose in first two resolutions while it is levelled of a single frame faster than the overclocked 7900 GTX 512. In Battlefield 2 Radeon X1900 XTX is faster in first two resolutions while Nvidia gets faster in the last two resolutions. ATI again owns the scores when you turn the FSAA and Aniso on. The scores are 2 frames faster at 7900 GTX overclocked while Radeon X1900 XTX wins at the two highest resolutions. EVGA 7900 GTX wins in 3Dmarks 03. It can get almost 5000 faster in 03 and less than a 100 in 05 ATI wins by 70 points. Radeon X1900 XTX losses in 06 by 400 points. Conclusion EVGA card 7900 GTX cards   is definitely fast and it will be among the fastest among 7900 GTX cards. My only issue is that ATI Radeon X1900 XTX is getting to close and wins in at least half of the cases. I have to say that R580, Radeon X1900 XTX can support HDR rendering with FSAA while Nvidia\'s G70 and G71 cards can not. ATI has an advantage with its video features so it is really close call. EVGA card win definitely run quieter as Nvidia has superior heath pipe cooler. ATI wins with FSAA and Aniso on and trust me it will be silly to own this card and not to use FSAA and Aniso at high resolutions. If you have ?†650 or $ card you should at least afford a ?†400 20.1 inch TFT display that can run 1600x1200 or 1680x1080 resolutions and turn the all effects on. Otherwise it simply doesn??в„ўt make any sense to go for high end GPU as it will be CPU limited at 1024x768. If you prefer Nvidia you go ahead and buy EVGA Geforce 7900 GTX CO Superclocked, 512MB but it will cost you some ?†700 in the Euroland. The only issue is that the cheapest available Radeon X1900 XTX costs ?†487. 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