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Performance

We should point out an earlier review of the Sapphire X1900 XTX here. That card is older than the X1950 XTX presently leading ATi’s lineup, but the hardware setups were very similar and some comparisons can be made between results there and here, provided the memory and CPU discrepancies are respected.

3DMark

After watching Proxomitron get invaded numerous times (and wondering why someone on defense didn’t shut down the affair with a simple flame thrower), we obtained the following:

Our best result for 3DMark05 (some of the scores of 3DMark'05 depends on the level of caching of the benchmark and repetitive runs will show increasing scores until the performance levels)

A typical result for 3DMark06.

What does that equate to? The tests are a sum of parts, including some new, nominal-CPU tests in 3DMark06 that redefined the meaning of ‘glacial progress’; we can only comment that the 3DMark06 rendition of the Battle of Proxomitron was definitely jittery on the X1950 Pro, although it was still far easier on the eyes than watching the original DOS-mode Quake strangle a Cyrix 5x86-100. (Point of reference: if you have no clue what “DOS”, “Quake”, or “Cyrix” are, I’m not too old; you are too young. Crack open those history books and get off my lawn.)

To see what those results translate to in real life, we need actual game tests.

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