HIS Radeon X1600 XT Review

Doom 3

Doom 3 is one of the heaviest games available today. As we’ve done on other programs, we ran this game at three resolutions: 1024x768x32, 1280x1024x32 and 1600x1200x32. This game allows several image quality levels and we’ve done our benchmarking on two levels, low and high. We ran demo1 four times and wrote the obtained number of frames per second. The first result we discarded at once, since it is far inferior than the other results. This happens because at the first time we run the demo the game must load all textures to video memory, fact that doesn’t happen from the second time we run the demo on. From the three results left, we consider as our official result the middle result, i.e., we discard the highest and the lowest values. Curiously almost all times the values obtained at the second round on were the same.

A very important detail that we must mention is that Doom 3 has an internal FPS lock: it is only capable of generating 60 frames per second, even if your board is able to produce more frames per second than that. This is done in order to make the game to have the same “playability” sensation independently from the video card installed on the PC. This lock, however, is disabled in the game benchmarking mode.

For further details on how to measure 3D performance with Doom 3, read our tutorial on this subject.

At a resolution of 1024×768 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 18.88% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 22.18% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 113.92% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 162.30% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1600 XT.

HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 46.29% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 45.08% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 42.97% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, which was 42.36% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 42.36% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS, which was 38.28% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 27.84% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, which was 25.11% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 16.64% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 14.83% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 5.45% faster and XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 3.78% faster.

At a resolution of 1280×1024 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 18.77% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 21.04% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 126.02% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 176.88% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1600 XT.

HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 111.96% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 106.32% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 104.06% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, which was 97.52% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 82.39% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS, which was 74.94% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 72.91% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, which was 71.11% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 35.21% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 24.38% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 13.54% faster and HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 5.64% faster.

At a resolution of 1600×1200 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 18.11% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 22.75% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 138.93% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 195.28% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1600 XT and HIS Radeon X800 GT.

HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 176.68% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 158.15% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 147.60% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, which was 143.45% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, which was 105.75% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS, which was 102.56% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 101.60% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 99.36% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 46.65% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 24.28% faster and XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 17.57% faster.

At a resolution of 1024×768 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 19.84% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 24.02% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 117.27% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 163.76% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1600 XT.

HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 57.78% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, which was 56.29% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 54.97% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 52.65% faster, ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 51.99% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS, which was 47.02% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 38.41% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, which was 35.26% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 22.19% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 17.22% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 8.44% faster and XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 8.28% faster.

At a resolution of 1280×1024 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 19.77% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 23.35% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 123.91% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 174.67% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to ATI Radeon X1600 XT.

HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 130.10% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 118.93% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 115.29% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, which was 110.44% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 89.81% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 80.58% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS, which was 79.37% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, which was 75.73% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 34.71% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 27.67% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 15.53% faster and HIS Radeon X800 GT, which was 7.77% faster.

At a resolution of 1600×1200 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X1600 XT was 20.00% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 24.48% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 158.62% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT and 191.26% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.

HIS Radeon X1600 XT achieved a performance similar to HIS Radeon X800 GT and ATI Radeon X1600 XT.

HIS Radeon X1600 XT was beaten by ATI Radeon X1900 XTX, which was 194.67% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 166.33% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XT, which was 152.67% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, which was 150.67% faster, ATI Radeon X1800 XL, which was 104.67% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, which was 103.67% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS, which was 102.00% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 101.00% faster, XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 44.67% faster, HIS Radeon X800 GTO, which was 25.67% faster and XFX GeForce 6600 256 MB (which is factory-overclocked), which was 17.67% faster.