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Sapphire Radeon X1950 GT 256MB

By Vincent Chang - 3 Feb 2007

Test Setup

Test Setup

We used an AMD based system for the benchmarking section that consisted of an Athlon 64 FX-55 (2.6GHz) processor installed on an MSI K8N Diamond Plus motherboard. 1GB of RAM has become the new minimum for most enthusiasts, particularly with Windows Vista. Hence, we had 1GB of DDR400 low latency memory from Kingston, running in dual channel mode. We stuck to Microsoft's Windows XP Professional for now and it was patched to the latest Service Pack 2 and had DirectX 9.0c installed.

The standard Catalyst 7.1 driver package from ATI's website correctly recognized the Sapphire Radeon X1950 GT and we used that for the new card. Since the Radeon X1950 GT seems to fall between a Radeon X1650 XT and the X1950 PRO, we have included those two cards, along with their NVIDIA equivalents, the GeForce 7600 GT and 7900 GS. The older Radeon X1900 GT is also included since its performance is quite similar to the Radeon X1950 GT. (Our Radeon X1900 GT is the original version that's clocked at 575/1200MHz and not the later revision that has a lower core clock but higher memory frequency). The cards and the respective driver versions used are as follows:

  • Sapphire Radeon X1950 GT 256MB - Catalyst 7.1
  • MSI RX1950PRO-T2D256E - driver version 8.292 (a modified version of Catalyst 6.10)
  • ATI Radeon X1900 GT- Catalyst 6.8
  • PowerColor Radeon X1650 XT 256MB - Catalyst 6.10
  • NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS - ForceWare 91.47
  • NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT - ForceWare 91.29

The benchmarks tested on these cards are:

  • 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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