3DMark2001 SE measures video card performance simulating DirectX 8.1 games. It is a very good software to evaluate the performance of games from previous generation, 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 triple frame buffer. 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 bechmark, 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, as important to know the performance of a video card with the latest games 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 X1600 XT was 5.84% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 10.27% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 13.24% faster than ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, 20.72% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 36.43% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, 39.53% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600 and 57.18% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to HIS Radeon X800 GT, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, ATI Radeon X1600 XT and HIS Radeon X800 GTO.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 16.66% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 15.28% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 10.85% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 8.97% faster and nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 6.72% faster.
At a resolution of 1280x1024 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 7.52% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 9.31% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 20.77% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 48.24% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 49.94% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 78.46% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1600 XT and ATI Radeon X1900 XTX.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 24.46% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 23.45% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 18.88% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 16.94% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 15.15% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 9.06% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 8.30% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 6.98% faster and HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 4.46% faster.
At a resolution of 1600x1200 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 4.02% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 11.80% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 19.33% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 57.24% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 75.22% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 111.68% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1600 XT.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 40.31% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 36.07% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 33.31% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 29.11% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 27.35% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 17.83% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 16.47% faster, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 15.72% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 8.99% faster and HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 8.80% faster.
At a resolution of 1024x768 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 3.40% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 19.40% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 37.72% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 67.52% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, 82.35% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600 and 98.29% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to HIS Radeon X800 GTO and HIS Radeon X800 GT.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 27.66% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 25.33% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 20.83% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 17.99% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 12.63% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 5.57% faster, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 4.29% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 3.54% faster and ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 3.40% faster.
At a resolution of 1280x1024 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 8.40% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 27.80% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 55.93% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 93.81% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, 121.56% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600 and 132.88% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to HIS Radeon X800 GTO and HIS Radeon X800 GT.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 44.41% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 37.64% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 34.52% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 27.74% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 21.64% faster, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 19.80% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 12.80% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 12.52% faster and ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 3.22% faster.
At a resolution of 1600x1200 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 22.84% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 GT, 55.88% faster than XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), 128.56% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 153.73% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 212.05% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 122.45% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 100.43% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 99.37% faster, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 93.48% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 88.91% faster, nVidia GeForce 7800 GT, which was 77.30% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, which was 45.46% faster, nVidia GeForce 6800 GS, which was 43.42% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 36.83% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 31.07% faster, Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, which was 16.27% faster and ATI Radeon X1600 XT, which was 3.65% faster.
was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 14.97% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 3.59% faster and ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 3.04% faster.
