Gainward FX 5800 Ultra: First review at [M] , Your next upgrade?

Videocards/VGA Reviews by jmke @ 2003-04-28

We check out what a brandnew Geforce FX Ultra 5800 can do for your XP2000+ system. We compare it to the Geforce 4 Ti4200, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. And last but not least we upgrade the CPU to a XP2600+ and see if the GF4 Ti4200 gets enough extra juice to keep up with the big guns!

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BenchMarks: UT2003 and Q3A

Test System:

As I only had a short period of testing time with the Geforce FX I used only one resolution (1024x768x32bit) and three popular benchmark games/products. Expect a more thorough benchmark portfolio in the near future of the FX in the common resolutions and AA/AF settings!

  • XP1700+ @ 1666Mhz
  • Abit KR7A
  • Corsair 256Mb PC3200

    The system was installed with Windows XP SP1, DirectX 9.0.
    The nVidia cards were tested with the Detonator 43.45 drivers
    The ATI card was tested with the Catalyst 3.2 drivers

    All tests were run without AA or AF and used the normal quality/performance settings in the drivers options (default)

    Afterwards I re-ran the tests with the GF Ti4200 but upped the speed of the CPU to 2066Mhz (XP2600+)!

    The Benchmarks

    OpenGL test:
    Madshrimps (c)
    This benchmark depends a lot on the GPU power, at 1024x768 resolution it seems the FX is able
    to beat the competition, when we increase it to 1600x1200 we see the Ti4200 fall behind and
    increasing the CPU speed has almost no effect on the outcome here



    Direct3D test:
    Madshrimps (c)
    The Radeon dominates the low FPS chart, on 2 out of 3 tests we see the Geforce FX
    even fall behind the Ti4200. Overclocking the CPU has strangely enough no positive
    impact on the results of the low FPS test


    Madshrimps (c)
    Again we see the Ti4200 keep up with the FX/9700Pro power.
    And overclocking the CPU gives the Ti4200 the edge over the FX in 2/3 tests!


    Madshrimps (c)
    In every test we see the Radeon 9700 Pro come out first with a small but noticeable margin,
    the Ti4200 in combination with the overclocked CPU takes the lead in 2/3 high FPS tests

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