[Testing] Sapphire X2900XT

[mascaras]

hi guys


I decided bought one of this cards



some pics




(Phone quality)








Buyng a X2900 we have 3 Valve games Free (Black BOX):

- Half-Life 2: episode2
- Portal
- Team Fortress2


and Day of Defeat till the other games dont came out
- Day of defeat



(Black BOX)












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Start Testing







Temp Idle (53c)






temps Playing DOD (Free game with X2900)



15:35:15, ASIC Temperature via LM64 on DDC3 I2C [0] (C) = 54.750, MCLK(MHz)[0] = 513.00, SCLK(MHz)[0] = 506.25

15:44:46, ASIC Temperature via LM64 on DDC3 I2C [0] (C) = 71.125, MCLK(MHz)[0] = 828.00, SCLK(MHz)[0] = 742.50



ASIC Temperature via LM64 on DDC3 I2C [0]


Minimum temperature: 54.375 C
Maximum temperature: 71.750 C
Average temperature: 58.601 C


(max temp 71/72c)



A pic of the game DOD just to show that image quality is good








Just testing the CSS :p




1680x1050 - MAX Quality - AA 8x - HDR









I also noticed what others reviews already said , that in some games with this drivers when MSAA is ON we lost a lot of FPS , but like i said its just in a few games and we hope that in the next drivers this issue its solved


here is a pic in same spot , same settings only with MSAA OFF , look at the FPS (+ 200 FPS only because MSAA is OFF)









Testing Lost planet DX9










Lost Planet DX9


Results


1600x896
X2900XT Default
E6600 @ 3600mhz
CAVE: 70
Snow :53

















Test Drive Unlimited







Sapphire X2900XT


1680x1050 -- HDR ON -- AA OF -- MAX Quality







1680x1050 -- HDR ON -- AA x2 -- MAX Quality








1680x1050 -- HDR ON -- AA x4 -- MAX Quality








8800GTS 320Mb @ Opteron 175 @ 2600mhz ( Just to compare Image Quality)




1680x1050 -- HDR ON -- AA OF -- MAX Quality







1680x1050 -- HDR ON -- AA x2 -- MAX Quality







1680x1050 -- HDR ON -- AA x4 -- MAX Quality






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3DMark 2005








X2900XT VS BFG 8800GTS OC









3Dmark2005 @ BFG 8800GTS OC @ E6600 3600mhz 17633 Marks






3dmark 2005 @ E6600 @ 3600mhz - X2900 DEFAULT 20536 Marks










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NOTE: The NEXT Results of 2x BFG 8800 GTS SLi the E6600 is runing @ 3200mhz while with X2900XT the CPU is runing @ 3600Mhz (not to compare ,Just curiosity)




DUAL BFG 8800GTS OC SLi














--3DMARK 2005 -- 2x 8800GTS SLi DEFAULT -- E6600 @ 3200Mhz (19668 Marks)








Sapphire X2900XT







--3DMARK 2005 -- X2900XT 512mb DEFAULT -- E6600 @ 3600Mhz ( 20536 Marks)












Results with BFG 8800GTX also with E6600 @ 3200Mhz and 3800mhz( not to compare , Just curiosity )




BFG 8800GTX (Forceware 97.92)








--3DMARK 2005 ----8800GTX DEFAULT---- E6600 @ 3200Mhz ( 18007 Marks)









--3DMARK 2005 ----8800GTX DEFAULT (Forc 97.92) ---- E6600 @ 3800Mhz ( 19037 Marks)








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3DMark 2006







Sapphire X2900XT VS BFG 8800GTS OC








Sapphire X2900XT




--3DMARK 2006 -- X2900XT 512mb DEFAULT (Cat 8.37) -- E6600 @ 3600Mhz ( 11501 Marks)






BFG 8800GTS OC




--3DMARK 2006 -- BFG 8800GTS OC (Forc.158.19) -- E6600 @ 3600Mhz ( 9926 Marks)







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Power Consumption :





results by xbit labs



Value and Conclusion:




Positively::

Price
DX10 Support
Performance




Negatively:
Power consumption
AA "problems"
Noisy cooler (3D)






8/10


I didnt had time yet to test overclock , 3dmark 2006 , .......


when i have new tests i will post them here


sory for bad english





regards

[eXceeded]

mascaras you are god! Nice testing!!

[erwinz]

tnxs for sharing mate.. very good card i suppose..

[Turrican]

wow, nice benches, very appreciated

[mascaras]

thnks guys

soon i have more tests i share with all of you


regards

[Okda]

nice review

thanks for sharing

[Dynasty]

nice review & enjoy the card......

[mascaras]

thnks again


btw: updated with 3dmark 2006 »» x2900 vs BFG 8800GTS OC


regads

[Lane-k]

he he thanks Mascaras, i have the card since 3 days now.. and i was not knowing we have DOD for free..lol... ( but you forget to mention we have too a full version of 3D06....

If you have BF2142.. give to it a try.. you will be really surprise by how it look.. the quality is really better with the 2900XT compared to X1K.

[stunt0r]

i need to change my x1800xl, but how can I buy one HD2900xt if it has so many problems in games...
20k on 3dmark05, and 18 fps on some games
I really hope that are drivers the problem. I can't buy nvidia

HEY U @ AMD!! WORK ON COOL DRIVERS.

[potkit]

why did you compare nvidia sli + cpu 3.2 vs single 2900 + cpu 3.6, thats pointless

[eXceeded]

oh yeah what driver you running? I can't find it in your post...

[mascaras]

why did you compare nvidia sli + cpu 3.2 vs single 2900 + cpu 3.6, thats pointless

thats was the results i had from my previous review BFG 8800GTS SLI VS 8800GTS SIngle >>> http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ht=bfg+8800gts

( just use it in this tests not to compare , just curiosity , i change in the 1st post )




drivers used was :


X2900 >> Cat 8.37.4.3 (only driver avaible in AMD/ATI site)

Nvidia 8800GTS single >> 158.19

8800GTX >>> 97.92

8800GTS SLi >> 97.92



BTW:

updated with Test drive unlimted with 8800GTS >>> 8800GTS test drive unlimited is runing with a Opteron 175@2600mhz //mems 260mhz just to compare image quality


thnks to user borbs for the TDU 8800gts tests


regards

[Viss]

Nice tests Good card. Did you compare 2001se?

[mascaras]

thnks LOC , no i didnt had time yet , soon i have 2001 results i post here



Btw:

why did you compare nvidia sli + cpu 3.2 vs single 2900 + cpu 3.6, thats pointless

like i said before the 8800GTS SLI and 8800GTX results with CPU @ 3200mhz it was just curiosity not to compare , but this is more fair :




E6600 @ 3800mhz
8800GTX ( forceware 97.92)











E6600 @ 3600mhz
X2900XT (Cat 3.7)












Next : run 3dmark 2001 and test overclock



regards

[Noob-ftw]

Very nice work. The R600 is doing pretty good against the 8800gts.

[Eastcoasthandle]

You actually helped the community by providing some decent information, not bad.

[Crankybugga]

Excellent post, you are answering a lot of questions

[potkit]

thnks LOC , no i didnt had time yet , soon i have 2001 results i post here



Btw:






like i said before the 8800GTS SLI and 8800GTX results with CPU @ 3200mhz it was just curiosity not to compare , but this is more fair :




E6600 @ 3800mhz
8800GTX ( forceware 97.92)











E6600 @ 3600mhz
X2900XT (Cat 3.7)












Next : run 3dmark 2001 and test overclock



regards

so it looks that the new drivers are better coz al reviews i've seen, the gtx beats 2900 in that test

[Revv23]

do you have oblivion? i'd love to see how it performs at 1680x1050 with a bunch of texture mods turned on and AA.

Edit - BTW great work, my favorite review yet - short, sweet, lots of screens.

[Daveb2012]

Thanks for all the test, I was really curious about BF series games with this card, which is why I came to check out this section. This is an awesome thread man.

[biohead]

do you have oblivion? i'd love to see how it performs at 1680x1050 with a bunch of texture mods turned on and AA.

Edit - BTW great work, my favorite review yet - short, sweet, lots of screens.

i can run oblivion max details 1600x1200 8xAA 16xAF stock clocks w/ opty@3.1g no problem. whenever I turn on Adaptive AA, things go bad (4 fps). Either a bug or something else.

[BooStFeD]

Mascaras

Great review can not wait to get my hands on this card.

[mascaras]

BTW guys , new review of HIS with the driver 8.38 (Its not the 8.38 Final Yet )

a lot of improvements in games +5%-30% then 8800GTS with previous driver (8.37) , even beat 8800GTX in Company of heroes


Review here >> http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/hwdb.php?ti...HIS&rid=790821

To collect higher-order market, Radeon 2900XT HD cheaper prices than expected, Official pricing for $ 399, and competitors for a meeting of the GeForce 8800GTS.

According to this test, Radeon 2900XT HD performance is better than GeForce 8800GTS. About 5~30% the leading edge of the test results exceeded even more similar to the level of 8800GTX.

But AMD also frank and R600 graphics core driver has yet to be continued optimization, So in the future effectiveness still further improve the performance space.

regards

[ahmad]

I cannot view that link for some reason.