HIS Radeon X800 GT IceQ II Review
Doom 3
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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 X800 GT was 25.36% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 28.84% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 125.57% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, and 176.59% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X800 GT achieved a performance similar to PowerColor Radeon X800 GT.
HIS Radeon X800 GT was beaten by MSI – DOT GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 37.45% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 35.58% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, which was 35.01% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 34.00% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 21.23% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, which was 18.65% faster, and XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 8.90% faster.
At a resolution of 1280×1024 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X800 GT was 25.47% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 27.87% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 138.78% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, and 192.50% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X800 GT achieved a performance similar to PowerColor Radeon X800 GT.
HIS Radeon X800 GT was beaten by MSI – DOT GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 99.15% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 93.38% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 93.16% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, which was 86.97% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 63.68% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, which was 61.97% faster, and XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 27.99% faster.
At a resolution of 1600×1200 without any image quality enhancement, HIS Radeon X800 GT was 18.87% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 23.53% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 140.46% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, and 197.17% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X800 GT achieved a performance similar to PowerColor Radeon X800 GT.
HIS Radeon X800 GT was beaten by MSI – DOT GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 170.48% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 160.63% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 156.51% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, which was 141.90% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, which was 104.44% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 98.10% faster, and XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 45.71% faster.
At a resolution of 1024×768 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X800 GT was 29.96% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 34.50% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 135.61% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, and 186.03% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X800 GT achieved a performance similar to PowerColor Radeon X800 GT.
HIS Radeon X800 GT was beaten by MSI – DOT GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 45.65% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, which was 44.12% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 43.21% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 42.90% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 27.63% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, which was 24.73% faster, and XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 8.09% faster.
At a resolution of 1280×1024 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X800 GT was 29.07% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 32.93% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 141.30% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, and 196.00% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X800 GT achieved a performance similar to PowerColor Radeon X800 GT.
HIS Radeon X800 GT was beaten by MSI – DOT GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 108.33% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GT, which was 101.58% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 99.77% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, which was 95.27% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 67.57% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, which was 63.06% faster, and XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 25.00% faster.
At a resolution of 1600×1200 enabling image quality enhancements, HIS Radeon X800 GT was 22.00% faster than Albatron GeForce 6600, 26.56% faster than Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro, 162.93% faster than ATI Radeon X600 XT, and 196.12% faster than Sapphire Radeon X600 Pro.
HIS Radeon X800 GT achieved a performance similar to PowerColor Radeon X800 GT.
HIS Radeon X800 GT was beaten by MSI – DOT GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 175.74% faster, XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 164.92% faster, MSI GeForce 7800 GTX, which was 161.97% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, which was 146.56% faster, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, which was 100.33% faster, ATI Radeon X850 XT P.E., which was 97.70% faster, and XFX GeForce 6600 GT, which was 42.30% faster.