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Gigabyte GV-RX18T512V-B Turbo Force Edition (Radeon X1800 XT 512MB)

By Vincent Chang - 21 Jan 2006

Test Setup

Test Setup

Our usual test system consisted of an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard. Unfortunately, we encountered some incompatibility issues with the Gigabyte GV-RX18T512V-B Turbo during our benchmarks and we ended up testing it on a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard. Besides the different motherboard (albeit same chipset), the rest of the configuration was like our original test setup, with an Athlon64 3500+ processor the brains behind the outfit, assisted by two sticks of Corsair DDR400 RAM running in dual channel mode. A Seagate 7200.7 SATA hard drive installed with Windows XP Professional updated to Service Pack 1 was used. The version of DirectX on the system was then updated to 9.0c.

The Gigabyte GV-RX18T512V-B Turbo and the ASUS EAX1800XT TOP are both overclocked by default, meaning that their cores are rated at 700MHz and the memories are running near their theoretical limits at 1600MHz DDR. This is in contrast with the normal reference design favored by the other two brands, GeCube and PowerColor, which stayed at 625MHz/1500MHz DDR. All these cards used ATI's Catalyst 5.11 drivers and we tested them in the following benchmarks:

  • Futuremark 3DMark05 Pro (version 120)
  • Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (version 1.1)
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory (version 1.3)
  • Quake 4
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