ATI Radeon X1600 XT Review | Hardware Secrets

How We Tested

During our benchmarking sessions we used the configuration listed below. Between our benchmarking sessions the only variable device was the video card being tested.

Hardware Configuration

Motherboard: DFI LAN Party 925X-T2 (Intel 925X, Sep. 20th, 2004 BIOS)
CPU: Pentium 4 3.4 GHz LGA 775
Memory: Two 512 MB DDR2-533 CM2X512-4200 CL4 from Corsair memory modules
Hard Drive: Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus (40 GB, ATA-133)
Screen resolution: 1024x768x32@85 Hz

Software Configuration

Windows XP Professional installed using NTFS
Service Pack 2
Direct X 9.0c
Intel inf driver version: 6.0.1.1002
ATI video driver version: 4.10 (6.14.10.6483)
ATI video driver version: 4.12 (Radeon X850 Platinum Edition)
ATI video driver version: 5.3 (Radeon X800 GT)
ATI video driver version: 5.9 (Radeon X800 GTO)
ATI video driver version: 8.173 beta (Radeon X1000 series)
nVidia video driver version: 66.93
nVidia video driver version: 77.72 (GeForce 7800 GTX)
nVidia video driver version: 78.02 (GeForce 7800 GT)

Used Software

We adopted a 3% error margin. Thus differences below 3% cannot be considered relevant. In other words, products with a performance difference below 3% should be considered as having similar performance.

ATI Radeon X1600 XT Review
By Gabriel Torres and Cássio Lima on October 7, 2005	Page 4 of 10
How We Tested During our benchmarking sessions we used the configuration listed below. Between our benchmarking sessions the only variable device was the video card being tested. Hardware Configuration Motherboard: DFI LAN Party 925X-T2 (Intel 925X, Sep. 20th, 2004 BIOS) CPU: Pentium 4 3.4 GHz LGA 775 Memory: Two 512 MB DDR2-533 CM2X512-4200 CL4 from Corsair memory modules Hard Drive: Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus (40 GB, ATA-133) Screen resolution: 1024x768x32@85 Hz Software Configuration Windows XP Professional installed using NTFS Service Pack 2 Direct X 9.0c Intel inf driver version: 6.0.1.1002 ATI video driver version: 4.10 (6.14.10.6483) ATI video driver version: 4.12 (Radeon X850 Platinum Edition) ATI video driver version: 5.3 (Radeon X800 GT) ATI video driver version: 5.9 (Radeon X800 GTO) ATI video driver version: 8.173 beta (Radeon X1000 series) nVidia video driver version: 66.93 nVidia video driver version: 77.72 (GeForce 7800 GTX) nVidia video driver version: 78.02 (GeForce 7800 GT) Used Software 3DMark2001 SE 3DMark03 Business 3.50 3DMark05 Business 1.10 Doom III Far Cry 1.3 We adopted a 3% error margin. Thus differences below 3% cannot be considered relevant. In other words, products with a performance difference below 3% should be considered as having similar performance.
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