Date:
Tuesday , September 19, 2006
Author:
Brent Justice
Editor:
Kyle Bennett
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XFX GeForce 7950 GT 570M Extreme

How does a factory overclocked passively cooled XFX GeForce 7950 GT 570M Extreme compares to an ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB video card? How about comparing it to a less expensive ATI Radeon X1900 GT? 24” LCD experiences at 1920x1200 included.

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System Test Setup

For evaluation we are using an ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe (nForce 590 SLI MCP) with an AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 Dual Core 2.8 GHz processor and 2GB of Corsair XMS DDR2 800 MHz RAM at 5-5-5-12 1T. We are using the latest nForce4 drivers available for this motherboard and the latest BIOS at time of evaluation.

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Video Cards

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For evaluation today we are comparing to an ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB and ATI Radeon X1900 GT. We are using the latest drivers for everything at the time of evaluation.

Evaluation Setup

Please be aware we test our video cards a bit differently from what is the norm. We concentrate on examining the real-world gameplay that each video card provides. The Highest Playable section shows the best Image Quality delivered at a playable frame rate. We use a high performance system, with a very fast CPU in order to remove CPU bottlenecking.

In our graphs we use some abbreviations to indicate the method of AA or AF being used.

P ADAA = Performance Adaptive AA – This indicates the use of Performance mode Adaptive AA on X1000 series ATI cards.

Q ADAA = Quality Adaptive AA – This indicates the use of Quality mode Adaptive AA on X1000 series ATI cards.

HQ AF = High Quality Anisotropic Filtering – Indicates the use of ATI’s High Quality option for Anisotropic Filtering that is not angle dependent.

TR MSAA = Transparency Multisampling Antialiasing – Indicates the use of NVIDIA’s Transparency Multisampling quality setting on GeForce 7 series video cards.

TR SSAA = Transparency Supersampling Antialiasing – Indicates the use of NVIDIA’s Transparency Supersampling quality setting on GeForce 7 series video cards.