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ECS GeForce 9800 GTX+ Hydra Video Card Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: August 13, 2008
Page: 7 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?). Notice that we didn’t upgrade the PhysX to the latest version, which would make the physics calculations for CPU Test 2 to be made by the GPU instead of the CPU on nVidia video cards (since we aren't considering CPU or 3DMark scores this change wouldn't produce any increase in our results anyway).

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.

ECS Hydra GeForce 9800 GTX+

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1680x1050 - PerformanceScoreDifference
Radeon HD 4870 X21169734.06%
GeForce 9800 GTX+ SLI8725 
GeForce GTX 280769513.39%
GeForce 9800 GX2699024.82%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870619340.88%
GeForce GTX 260589847.93%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2565154.40%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850479781.88%
GeForce 9800 GTX+449993.93%
GeForce 9800 GTX3805129.30%
GeForce 9800 GT3691136.39%
Radeon HD 38702977193.08%

ECS Hydra GeForce 9800 GTX+

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1920x1200 - PerformanceScoreDifference
Radeon HD 4870 X2947244.72%
GeForce 9800 GTX+ SLI6545 
GeForce GTX 28061067.19%
GeForce 9800 GX2537921.68%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870488034.12%
GeForce GTX 260458242.84%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2433650.95%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850372575.70%
GeForce 9800 GTX+337094.21%
GeForce 9800 GT2951121.79%
GeForce 9800 GTX2891126.39%
Radeon HD 38702269188.45%

ECS Hydra GeForce 9800 GTX+

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 2560x1600 - PerformanceScoreDifference
Radeon HD 4870 X2554259.16%
GeForce GTX 28035491.92%
GeForce 9800 GTX+ SLI3482 
GeForce 9800 GX2291019.66%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870272827.64%
GeForce GTX 260264031.89%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2238246.18%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850205069.85%
GeForce 9800 GTX+181591.85%
GeForce 9800 GT1638112.58%
GeForce 9800 GTX1557123.64%
Radeon HD 38701244179.90%

ECS Hydra GeForce 9800 GTX+

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1680x1050 - ExtremeScoreDifference
Radeon HD 4870 X2840535.67%
GeForce 9800 GTX+ SLI6195 
GeForce GTX 28060053.16%
GeForce 9800 GX2485827.52%
GeForce GTX 260453136.72%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870436042.09%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2356773.68%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850344579.83%
GeForce 9800 GTX+320193.53%
GeForce 9800 GT2741126.01%
GeForce 9800 GTX2703129.19%
Radeon HD 38701855233.96%

ECS Hydra GeForce 9800 GTX+

3DMark Vantage Professional 1.0.1 - 1920x1200 - ExtremeScoreDifference
Radeon HD 4870 X2691656.65%
GeForce GTX 28047327.18%
GeForce 9800 GTX+ SLI4415 
GeForce GTX 260357623.46%
GeForce 9800 GX2350825.86%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870349026.50%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850275360.37%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2266965.42%
GeForce 9800 GTX+239984.04%
GeForce 9800 GT2136106.69%
GeForce 9800 GTX2038116.63%
Radeon HD 38701439206.81%

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