Leadtek WinFast PX7950GT TDH Extreme (GeForce 7950 GT)

Test Setup

Test Setup

Our test system consisted of a MSI K8N Diamond Plus motherboard together with an AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 (2.6GHz) processor. We added two sticks of 512MB low latency DDR400 memory from Kingston for a grand total of 1GB. The hard drive chosen was a Seagate 7200.7 SATA drive, installed with Windows XP Professional. We also updated the system with Service Pack 2 and DirectX 9.0c to keep software issues to a minimum.

The graphics cards and the respective drivers used in the comparison are as follows:

• Leadtek WinFast PX7950 GT TDH Extreme (ForceWare 91.47)
• XFX GeForce 7950 GT 570M Extreme (ForceWare 91.47)
• NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT 512MB (ForceWare 91.47)
• NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 256MB (ForceWare 91.47)
• NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT 256MB (ForceWare 91.47)
• Palit GeForce 7900 GT Sonic 512MB (ForceWare 84.21)
• NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB (ForceWare 84.21)
• ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB (Catalyst 6.8)

And finally, 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