Test Setup and Performance

Now that we've looked at ATI's video quality, lets take a look at the AIW X1900's gaming performance. We found that due to the low clock speed of the AIW X1900, the performance of this card is much closer in comparison to NVIDIA's 7800 GT than to an X1900. This isn't as surprising when you consider the engine clock is 125MHz lower and the memory clock 200MHz lower than the X1800 XT. Here is the test hardware we used: (Note that we run our benchmarks with sound disabled)

Test Hardware

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 (2.8GHz)
Motherboard: ATI Reference Radeon Xpress 200
Chipset: ATI RD480
Chipset Drivers: Catalyst 6.1
Memory: 2x 1GB OCZ PC4000 DDR 2-3-3-8
Video Card: ATI Radeon X1900 XTX
ATI Radeon X1900 XT
ATI All-In-Wonder X1900
ATI Radeon X1800 XT
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512
Video Drivers: ATI Catalyst 6.1 (Beta)
NVIDIA ForceWare 81.98
Desktop Resolution: 1280x960 - 32-bit @ 60Hz
OS: Windows XP Professional SP2
Power Supply: OCZ PowerStream 600W PSU




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  • DeathByDuke - Friday, February 10, 2006 - link

    oh yeah, you need to fix the images on the games benchmarks, they are all URL links lol
  • Wesley Fink - Friday, February 10, 2006 - link

    The HTML code is now fixed and the game graphs are displaying.
  • bigboxes - Friday, February 10, 2006 - link

    I am going to be in market for such a card come this summer. This card looks to foot the bill and the price should come down by then. Very nice!

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