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GeCube FZ Cool Radeon X1950 PRO Champion Edition 512MB

By Vincent Chang - 16 Nov 2006

Test Setup

Test Setup

Our test system was outfitted with an AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 (2.6GHz) processor on a MSI K8N Diamond Plus motherboard. It has 1GB of DDR400 low latency memory from Kingston running in dual channel mode. The hard drive used was a Seagate 7200.7 SATA drive, which was then installed with Windows XP Professional and updated with Service Pack 2 and DirectX 9.0c.

ATI has finally included drivers for the Radeon X1950 PRO in the latest Catalyst 6.11. Previously, users had to rely on the included driver CD from the vendor or a separate driver download link from ATI's website. This was the 8.291 drivers that we used for the GeCube, which is slightly different from the custom Catalyst 6.9 drivers that we had installed on the PowerColor Radeon X1950 PRO and the ASUS Radeon X1950 PRO. ATI's Radeon X1900 GT and XT running on Catalyst 6.8 were used as reference. Then, there were also the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS and 7950 GT, both of which were running ForceWare 91.47. The list of benchmarks tested:

  • Futuremark 3DMark05 (ver. 120)
  • Futuremark 3DMark06 (ver. 102)
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
  • F.E.A.R
  • Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
  • Quake 4
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