ATI Radeon X1300 Pro Review

How We Tested

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

Hardware Configuration

• Motherboard: Intel D915GEV
• 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: [email protected] Hz

Software Configuration

• Windows XP Professional installed using NTFS
• Service Pack 2
• Direct X 9.0c
• Intel inf driver version: 7.2.2.1006
• ATI video driver version: 5.11
• NVIDIA video driver version: 81.95
• Intel video driver version: 14.17
• XGI video driver version: 3.01.130.D (6.14.1.3010)

Used Software

• 3DMark2001 SE
• 3DMark03 Business 3.60
• 3DMark05 Business 1.20
• Doom 3 1.3
• Far Cry 1.33

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.