3Dmark2001 SE measures video card performance simulating DirectX 8.1 games. It is very effective software for evaluating the performance from previous-generation games, programmed using DirectX 8. In this software we run six tests. We run the software in three resolutions, 1024x768x32, 1280x1024x32 and 1600x1200x32, first without antialiasing and with no frame buffer, then we put the antialiasing at 4 samples and the frame buffer at triple-buffering. This improves the video quality but lowers the performance. We were willing to see how much performance we lost by putting the VGA to run at the maximum possible image quality. It is important to notice that ATI chips can run at 6x antialiasing. Since nVidia chips cannot run at this configuration, we had to use 4x antialiasing to use a configuration that is valid to all video cards included in our bechmarks, allowing direct comparison between them.
You may be asking yourself why we added an old program in a review of a latest generation video card. To us, it is as important to know the performance of a video card with the latest games as it is to know its performance in an older game. That’s why we kept this software in our methodology.
At a resolution of 1024x768 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X800 GT was 8.96% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 13.52% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 17.25% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 40.45% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, 43.64% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, and 61.81% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X800 GT achieved a performance similar to nVidia GeForce 6800 GT.
HIS Radeon X800 GT was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 13.33% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 7.68% faster, MSI - DOT GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 6.81% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 3.68% faster, and nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 3.67% faster than the board was been tested.
At a resolution of 1280x1024 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X800 GT was 13.65% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 15.03% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 16.94% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 58.59% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 60.40% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, and 90.92% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X800 GT achieved a performance similar to nVidia GeForce 6600 GT.
HIS Radeon X800 GT was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 15.39% faster, MSI – DOT GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 11.28% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 11.13% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 10.90% faster, and nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 7.64% faster.
At a resolution of 1600x1200 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X800 GT was 6.09% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 13.17% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 21.64% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 71.08% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 90.65% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, and 130.32% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X800 GT was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 25.06% faster, MSI – DOT GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 22.73% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 22.52% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 21.95% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 17.05% faster, and nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 8.30% faster than the board was been tested.
At a resolution of 1024x768 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X800 GT was 4.21% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 6.19% faster than PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, 20.34% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 68.84% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, 83.78% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, and 99.85% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X800 GT was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 24.35% faster, MSI – DOT GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 20.95% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 20.81% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 17.06% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 11.75% faster, and nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 4.75% faster.
At a resolution of 1280x1024 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X800 GT was 10.44% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 30.21% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 97.47% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, 125.74% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, and 137.27% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X800 GT achieved a performance similar to PowerColor Radeon X800 GT.
HIS Radeon X800 GT was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 35.09% faster, MSI - DOT GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 29.23% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 27.81% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 25.38% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 19.38% faster, and nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 10.71% faster.
At a resolution of 1600x1200 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X800 GT was 12.73% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 61.01% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 199.58% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 232.57% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, and 309.02% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X800 GT achieved a performance similar to PoderColor Radeon X800 GT.
HIS Radeon X800 GT was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 52.91% faster, MSI - DOT GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 50.42% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 46.95% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 44.12% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 35.27% faster, and nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 10.98% faster.
