ATI's Radeon X700 XT and Radeon X700 PRO Preview

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 26 October 2004, 00:00

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD)

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System Setup and Notes

X700, take two

Hardware

  • ATI Radeon X700 XT Reference Board #2, RV410, 128MB, PEG16X, 475/1050
  • ATI Radeon X700 PRO Reference Board, RV410, 256MB, PEG16X, 425/865
  • ATI Radeon X700 XT Reference Board, RV410, 128MB, PEG16X, 475/1050
  • NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Reference Board, NV43, 128MB, PEG16X, 500/1000
  • NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Reference Board, NV45, 256MB, PEG16X, 350/1000
  • NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 PCX Reference Board, NV35, 128MB, PEG16X, 390/700
  • Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, 512KB L2, 2MB L3, 3400MHz
  • Albatron 915P LGA775 Mainboard, LGA775, DDR400
  • 512MB Corsair XMS3200LLPT, 2-2-2-6, DDR400
  • Western Digital WD360G Raptor, SATA

Software

  • Windows XP Professional w/SP2
  • DirectX 9.0c Runtime
  • ATI CATALYST 4.9 Release, version 8-07-018380E #2
  • ATI CATALYST 4.9 Release, version 8-06-4-040911a-018053E
  • NVIDIA Detonator Release 60 and 65, 61.76, 65.76
  • 3DMark 2001SE Build 340
  • 3DMark03 v3.4.0
  • Call of Duty v1.1.1412
  • Unreal Tournament 2003 v2225
  • Serious Sam: Second Encounter
  • ShaderMark 2.0
  • D3D RightMark 1.0.4.9 PB3
  • Realtime High Dynamic Range Image-Based Lighting v1.2
  • FRAPS 2.1
  • TexBench 1.3
  • SeriousMagic Benchmark

Notes

XT #2 gets rebenchmarked with the latest driver and the PRO uses the older driver. RivaTuner saw the clocks as follows.

Default settings, GPU idle

The PRO clocks were as follows.