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MSI GeForce 8500 GT Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: May 28, 2007
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3DMark03

3DMark03 simulates DirectX 8 and 9 games. Even though this program may be considered “old”, we ran it to see how the tested video cards perform on older games. Since we are comparing mid-range cards, we decided to run this program in two resolutions, 1024x768 (which is considered low for today’s standards and thus providing a simulation for low resolution) and 1600x1200 (which provides a simulation for high resolution). At each resolution we simulated two scenarios, first with no image quality enhancements enabled (this scenario we called “low”) and then with anti-aliasing set at 4x and anisotropic filtering set at 4x (this scenario we called “high”). The results you check below. All video cards listed below were running with the default clock rates defined by the chip manufacturer except the cards marked with “OC”, which are cards that are factory-overclocked.

GeForce 8 Mid-Range

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 –1024x768 Score Difference
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) OC 20100 147.42%
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) 18236 124.47%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) OC 17211 111.85%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) 15741 93.76%
GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB (XFX) 14487 78.32%
Radeon X1650 XT 256 MB (HIS) 13663 68.18%
Radeon X1650 Pro 256 MB (HIS) 10574 30.16%
Radeon X1600 XT 256 MB (HIS) 10271 26.43%
GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (nVidia) 9557 17.64%
GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB (XFX) 8984 10.59%
Radeon X1300 XT 256 MB GDDR3 (HIS) 8935 9.98%
GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (MSI) 8124  
GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB (Zogis) 7359 10.40%
Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB (ATI) 6385 27.24%
GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron) 5593 45.25%
GeForce 6200 128-bit 128 MB (Leadtek) 4179 94.40%

GeForce 8 Mid-Range

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 -1600x1200 Score Difference
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) OC 11393 164.15%
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) 10538 144.33%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) OC 9695 124.79%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) 8797 103.96%
GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB (XFX) 8450 95.92%
Radeon X1650 XT 256 MB (HIS) 7556 75.19%
Radeon X1650 Pro 256 MB (HIS) 5429 25.88%
Radeon X1600 XT 256 MB (HIS) 5385 24.86%
GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (nVidia) 5255 21.84%
GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB (XFX) 5086 17.92%
Radeon X1300 XT 256 MB GDDR3 (HIS) 4497 4.27%
GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (MSI) 4313  
GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB (Zogis) 4011 7.53%
GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron) 2915 47.96%
Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB (ATI) 2712 59.03%
GeForce 6200 128-bit 128 MB (Leadtek) 2076 107.76%

GeForce 8

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 -1024x768 AAx4. AFx4 Score Difference
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) OC 11675 139.59%
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) 10742 120.44%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) OC 10131 107.90%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) 9119 87.13%
GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB (XFX) 7980 63.76%
Radeon X1650 XT 256 MB (HIS) 7602 56.00%
Radeon X1650 Pro 256 MB (HIS) 5592 14.75%
Radeon X1600 XT 256 MB (HIS) 5396 10.73%
GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (MSI) 4873  
GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (nVidia) 4844 0.60%
GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB (XFX) 4635 5.13%
Radeon X1300 XT 256 MB GDDR3 (HIS) 4605 5.82%
GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB (Zogis) 3894 25.14%
Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB (ATI) 3376 44.34%
GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron) 2617 86.21%
GeForce 6200 128-bit 128 MB (Leadtek) 1745 179.26%

GeForce 8 Mid-Range

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 -1600x1200 AAx4. AFx4 Score Difference
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) OC 6058 180.20%
GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB (MSI) 5612 159.57%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) OC 5259 143.25%
GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB (MSI) 4639 114.57%
GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB (XFX) 4276 97.78%
Radeon X1650 XT 256 MB (HIS) 4110 90.10%
Radeon X1650 Pro 256 MB (HIS) 2714 25.53%
Radeon X1600 XT 256 MB (HIS) 2691 24.47%
GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB (XFX) 2320 7.31%
GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (nVidia) 2237 3.47%
Radeon X1300 XT 256 MB GDDR3 (HIS) 2217 2.54%
GeForce 8500 GT 256 MB (MSI) 2162  
GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB (Zogis) 1917 12.78%
GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron) 1212 78.38%
Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB (ATI) 1038 108.29%
GeForce 6200 128-bit 128 MB (Leadtek) 837 158.30%

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