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Sapphire Atomic HD 3870 X2 Video Card Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: June 18, 2008
Page: 6 of 11
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3DMark Vantage Professional
3DMark Vantage is the latest addition to the 3DMark series, measuring Shader 4.0 (i.e. DirectX 10) performance and supporting PhysX, a programming interface developed by Ageia (now part of nVidia) to transfer physics calculations from the system CPU to the video card GPU in order to increase performance. Physics is used to calculate how objects interact (for example, if you shoot what exactly will happen to the object when the bullet hits it – Will it break? Will it move? Will the bullet bounce back?).

We ran this program under three 16:10 widescreen resolutions: 1680x1050, 1920x1200 and 2560x1600, first using the “Performance” profile, then using the “Extreme” profile – which basically enables anti-aliasing at 4x, anisotropic filtering at 16x and put all details settings at their maximum value (called “extreme”). The combination of 2560x1600 resolution with extreme settings didn’t produce reliable results according to the program, so we aren’t going to add them here. The results we are comparing are the “GPU Score” achieved by each video card.

GeForce GTX 280

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1680x1050 – PerformanceScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280769536.17%
GeForce 9800 GX2699023.69%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X25651 
GeForce 9800 GTX380548.52%
Radeon HD 3870297789.82%

GeForce GTX 280

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1920x1200 – PerformanceScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280610640.82%
GeForce 9800 GX2537924.05%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X24336 
GeForce 9800 GTX289149.98%
Radeon HD 3870226991.10%

GeForce GTX 280

 

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 2560x1600 – PerformanceScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280354948.99%
GeForce 9800 GX2291022.17%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X22382 
GeForce 9800 GTX155752.99%
Radeon HD 3870124491.48%

GeForce GTX 280

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 -1680x1050 - ExtremeScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280600568.35%
GeForce 9800 GX2485836.19%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X23567 
GeForce 9800 GTX270331.96%
Radeon HD 3870185592.29%

GeForce GTX 280

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 -1920x1200 - ExtremeScoreDifference
GeForce GTX 280473277.29%
GeForce 9800 GX2350831.43%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X22669 
GeForce 9800 GTX203830.96%
Radeon HD 3870143985.48%

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