Posted:2006-04-08 By The Game Number of View:402948
GEFORCE 7900 GTX CO SUPERCLOCKED
-7900 GTX VS X1900XTX
By :The Game
Posted:2006-04-08
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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 overclockedwas 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??™t 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. This is a huge difference but the answer is always yours
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