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These synthetic systems tests from Futuremark give you a good overall idea of performance between the video cards; you should not solely rely on these results though as the game benchmarks do not always reflect these rankings:   Overclocking Getting good value for money and gaming enthusiasts almost always goes hand in hand with overclocking. If you can squeeze more FPS from your video card without paying more, then that’s free performance. From the cards in this roundup only the eVGA 7600GT CO/CO SC refused to overclock, not even 1Mhz over stock speeds, they come factory overclocked, to the limit. The X1300 Pro’s memory also refused to overclock, the GPU got a nice boost though.  I used Oblivion to check on performance, I also included stock 7600GT vs 7600GT CO SC numbers. These are the average FPS:  The Asus X1300 Pro and Club 3D get a nice boost in performance, close to 20%! The 7600GT only sees a +4.5% benefit from overclocking. The other cards get a ~10% FPS boost. Conclusive Thoughts If you are a less demanding gamer you’ll find that you don’t need the latest and most expensive video card out there to enjoy gaming, even with low-range models you can get acceptable performance if you sacrifice detail and high resolution. From the low range cards in this roundup the Sparkle 6600GT and Powercolor X800GTO are most interesting, the Asus X1300 Pro Silent only advantage is its passive cooling solution, which makes it a prime candidate for a non-gaming HTPC. The performance of the X800GTO and 6600GT is quite on par throughout the games, older games run fluently at higher resolutions while newer games requires you drop detail levels. The 6600GT can be paired and run in SLI which makes its overall performance jump up and on par with a single 7600GT in some games. The Asus X1600XT offered mixed results, sometimes performing on par with the mid-range products, sometimes doing worse than the low-range video cards. Again its main selling point is the passive cooling, it has more horsepower than the X1300 Pro so it will be more suitable for gaming, however at price close to that of the mid-range products like the Club3D X1800RX which offers better performance, it’s hard to recommend. At the top of the price range sits the eVGA SuperClocked version of the 7600GT, it took the performance crown in this roundup, outperforming the X1800GTO consistently, however the performance increase over a 7600GT running at reference speeds is not really worth the extra asking price. The 7600GT’s bottleneck is not the GPU or Memory clocks speeds but the amount of pipelines. The X1800GTO on the other hand, while trailing the 7600GT, scales better when overclocked, seeing increases up to 20%. In this roundup we are missing the 7300GS from nVidia which is direct competition for the X1300 Pro price wise, however going by this excellent comparison, nVidia’s offering is trailing the X1300 Pro in performance. This month nVidia announced the 7300GT card and there’s the 7600GS which appears to be slightly slower than the X1800GTO. I hope this roundup will help you make an informed buying decision. Thank you for reading. Question/Comments: forum thread  More reviews in this category can be found below: |
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