PowerColor Radeon X1600 Pro 512 MB Review
Far Cry
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Far Cry is a game based on the new Shader 3.0 (DirectX 9.0c) programming model available on series 6 and 7 from NVIDIA and series X1000 from ATI graphics chips. We’ve updated the game to version 1.3.
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 very high. To measure the performance we used the demo created by German magazine PC Games Hardware (PCGH), available at https://www.3dcenter.org/downloads/farcry-pcgh-vga.php. We run this demo four times and made an arithmetical average with the results. This average is the result presented in our graphs.
This game has a very important detail in its image quality configuration. Antialising, instead of being configured by numbers (1x, 2x, 4x or 6x) is configured as low, medium or high. The problem is that on NVIDIA chips both medium and high mean 4x, while on ATI chips medium means 2x and high means 6x, making the comparison between ATI and NVIDIA chips completely unfair. Because of that we configured antialising at 4x and anisotropic filtering at 8x manually at the video driver control panel.
For further details on how to measure 3D performance with Far Cry, read our tutorial on this subject.
The results you check below. Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo from HIS is factory-overclocked, running at 587 MHz and accessing its memory at 1.38 GHz, while the standard Radeon X1600 Pro runs at 500 MHz and accesses its memory at 780 MHz.
| Far Cry – 1024×768 Low | Score | Difference |
| Radeon X1900 GT (Connect3D) | 148.26 | 0.74% |
| Radeon X1600 XT (Sapphire) | 147.34 | 0.12% |
| Radeon X1600 Pro 512 MB (PowerColor) | 147.17 | |
| Radeon X800 GT (HIS) | 145.56 | 1.11% |
| Radeon X850 XT P.E. (ATI) | 145.51 | 1.14% |
| Radeon X800 GTO (HIS) | 145.42 | 1.20% |
| Radeon X1800 XT (ATI) | 145.16 | 1.38% |
| Radeon X700 Pro (Sapphire) | 144.93 | 1.55% |
| Radeon X1800 XL (ATI) | 144.54 | 1.82% |
| Radeon X1600 XT (ATI) | 144.44 | 1.89% |
| Radeon X1900 XTX (ATI) | 144.02 | 2.19% |
| Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (HIS) | 141.07 | 4.32% |
| GeForce 7800 GTX (MSI) | 136.68 | 7.67% |
| GeForce 7600 GT (NVIDIA) | 136.43 | 7.87% |
| GeForce 7600 GS (NVIDIA) | 135.74 | 8.42% |
| GeForce 7900 GTX (NVIDIA) | 135.67 | 8.48% |
| GeForce 7900 GT (NVIDIA) | 135.44 | 8.66% |
| GeForce 7800 GT (NVIDIA) | 134.94 | 9.06% |
| GeForce 6800 GS (NVIDIA) | 134.93 | 9.07% |
| Radeon X600 XT (ATI) | 132.76 | 10.85% |
| GeForce 7950 GX2 (NVIDIA) | 131.48 | 11.93% |
| GeForce 6600 GT (XFX) | 130.43 | 12.83% |
| GeForce 6600 (Albatron) | 123.60 | 19.07% |
| GeForce 6800 GT (NVIDIA) | 120.56 | 22.07% |
| Radeon X600 Pro (Sapphire) | 112.52 | 30.79% |
| Far Cry – 1280×1024 Low | Score | Difference |
| Radeon X1900 GT (Connect3D) | 145.00 | 7.53% |
| Radeon X1600 XT (Sapphire) | 144.24 | 6.97% |
| Radeon X850 XT P.E. (ATI) | 143.19 | 6.19% |
| Radeon X800 GT (HIS) | 142.98 | 6.04% |
| Radeon X800 GTO (HIS) | 142.41 | 5.61% |
| Radeon X1800 XL (ATI) | 141.73 | 5.11% |
| Radeon X1800 XT (ATI) | 140.71 | 4.35% |
| Radeon X1600 XT (ATI) | 140.49 | 4.19% |
| Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (HIS) | 138.64 | 2.82% |
| Radeon X700 Pro (Sapphire) | 138.43 | 2.66% |
| Radeon X1600 Pro 512 MB (PowerColor) | 134.84 | |
| GeForce 7800 GTX (MSI) | 133.27 | 1.18% |
| GeForce 7600 GT (NVIDIA) | 133.24 | 1.20% |
| GeForce 7900 GTX (NVIDIA) | 133.09 | 1.31% |
| GeForce 6800 GS (NVIDIA) | 132.52 | 1.75% |
| GeForce 7900 GT (NVIDIA) | 132.32 | 1.90% |
| GeForce 7600 GS (NVIDIA) | 131.86 | 2.26% |
| GeForce 7800 GT (NVIDIA) | 131.78 | 2.32% |
| Radeon X1900 XTX (ATI) | 131.03 | 2.91% |
| GeForce 7950 GX2 (NVIDIA) | 127.99 | 5.35% |
| GeForce 6800 GT (NVIDIA) | 127.71 | 5.58% |
| GeForce 6600 GT (XFX) | 127.24 | 5.97% |
| Radeon X600 XT (ATI) | 89.16 | 51.23% |
| GeForce 6600 (Albatron) | 87.83 | 53.52% |
| Radeon X600 Pro (Sapphire) | 72.96 | 84.81% |
| Far Cry – 1600×1200 Low | Score | Difference |
| Radeon X1900 GT (Connect3D) | 145.81 | 49.26% |
| Radeon X850 XT P.E. (ATI) | 143.59 | 46.99% |
| Radeon X1800 XT (ATI) | 142.30 | 45.66% |
| Radeon X1800 XL (ATI) | 141.82 | 45.17% |
| Radeon X800 GTO (HIS) | 139.29 | 42.58% |
| GeForce 7900 GTX (NVIDIA) | 134.03 | 37.20% |
| GeForce 7600 GT (NVIDIA) | 133.96 | 37.13% |
| GeForce 7800 GTX (MSI) | 133.93 | 37.10% |
| GeForce 7900 GT (NVIDIA) | 133.59 | 36.75% |
| GeForce 7800 GT (NVIDIA) | 133.18 | 36.33% |
| Radeon X1600 XT (Sapphire) | 132.48 | 35.61% |
| GeForce 6800 GS (NVIDIA) | 132.30 | 35.43% |
| Radeon X1900 XTX (ATI) | 130.85 | 33.94% |
| GeForce 7950 GX2 (NVIDIA) | 128.38 | 31.42% |
| Radeon X800 GT (HIS) | 128.32 | 31.35% |
| GeForce 6800 GT (NVIDIA) | 127.64 | 30.66% |
| Radeon X1600 XT (ATI) | 121.01 | 23.87% |
| Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (HIS) | 118.53 | 21.33% |
| GeForce 6600 GT (XFX) | 109.30 | 11.88% |
| GeForce 7600 GS (NVIDIA) | 108.98 | 11.56% |
| Radeon X700 Pro (Sapphire) | 105.22 | 7.71% |
| Radeon X1600 Pro 512 MB (PowerColor) | 97.69 | |
| GeForce 6600 (Albatron) | 63.37 | 54.16% |
| Radeon X600 XT (ATI) | 59.82 | 63.31% |
| Radeon X600 Pro (Sapphire) | 48.85 | 99.98% |
| Far Cry – 1024×768 High | Score | Difference |
| Radeon X1900 GT (Connect3D) | 78.79 | 108.88% |
| Radeon X850 XT P.E. (ATI) | 76.61 | 103.10% |
| Radeon X1800 XL (ATI) | 76.55 | 102.94% |
| Radeon X1800 XT (ATI) | 76.18 | 101.96% |
| GeForce 7800 GT (NVIDIA) | 75.82 | 101.01% |
| GeForce 7800 GTX (MSI) | 75.38 | 99.84% |
| GeForce 7900 GTX (NVIDIA) | 75.35 | 99.76% |
| GeForce 7900 GT (NVIDIA) | 74.65 | 97.91% |
| GeForce 7950 GX2 (NVIDIA) | 73.03 | 93.61% |
| GeForce 7600 GT (NVIDIA) | 72.70 | 92.74% |
| GeForce 6800 GS (NVIDIA) | 70.72 | 87.49% |
| Radeon X1900 XTX (ATI) | 69.40 | 83.99% |
| GeForce 6800 GT (NVIDIA) | 67.93 | 80.09% |
| Radeon X800 GTO (HIS) | 63.05 | 67.15% |
| Radeon X800 GT (HIS) | 54.82 | 45.33% |
| Radeon X1600 XT (Sapphire) | 49.74 | 31.87% |
| GeForce 7600 GS (NVIDIA) | 48.28 | 28.00% |
| Radeon X1600 XT (ATI) | 47.91 | 27.01% |
| Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (HIS) | 43.82 | 16.17% |
| Radeon X700 Pro (Sapphire) | 40.72 | 7.95% |
| GeForce 6600 GT (XFX) | 38.28 | 1.48% |
| Radeon X1600 Pro 512 MB (PowerColor) | 37.72 | |
| GeForce 6600 (Albatron) | 23.67 | 59.36% |
| Radeon X600 Pro (Sapphire) | 20.41 | 84.81% |
| Radeon X600 XT (ATI) | 18.74 | 101.28% |
| Far Cry – 1280×1024 High | Score | Difference |
| Radeon X1800 XT (ATI) | 75.28 | 187.99% |
| GeForce 7900 GTX (NVIDIA) | 73.31 | 180.45% |
| GeForce 7900 GT (NVIDIA) | 71.77 | 174.56% |
| GeForce 7950 GX2 (NVIDIA) | 71.17 | 172.26% |
| GeForce 7800 GTX (MSI) | 71.13 | 172.11% |
| Radeon X1900 GT (Connect3D) | 71.03 | 171.73% |
| Radeon X1800 XL (ATI) | 70.00 | 167.79% |
| Radeon X1900 XTX (ATI) | 68.59 | 162.39% |
| Radeon X850 XT P.E. (ATI) | 67.93 | 159.87% |
| GeForce 7800 GT (NVIDIA) | 67.09 | 156.66% |
| GeForce 7600 GT (NVIDIA) | 53.88 | 106.12% |
| GeForce 6800 GS (NVIDIA) | 53.81 | 105.85% |
| GeForce 6800 GT (NVIDIA) | 51.53 | 97.13% |
| Radeon X800 GTO (HIS) | 45.80 | 75.21% |
| Radeon X800 GT (HIS) | 38.43 | 47.02% |
| Radeon X1600 XT (Sapphire) | 36.13 | 38.22% |
| Radeon X1600 XT (ATI) | 35.59 | 36.15% |
| GeForce 7600 GS (NVIDIA) | 31.41 | 20.16% |
| Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (HIS) | 30.54 | 16.83% |
| Radeon X700 Pro (Sapphire) | 28.20 | 7.88% |
| Radeon X1600 Pro 512 MB (PowerColor) | 26.14 | |
| GeForce 6600 GT (XFX) | 25.82 | 1.24% |
| GeForce 6600 (Albatron) | 15.07 | 73.46% |
| Radeon X600 Pro (Sapphire) | 14.15 | 84.73% |
| Radeon X600 XT (ATI) | 13.62 | 91.92% |
| Far Cry – 1600×1200 High | Score | Difference |
| Radeon X1800 XT (ATI) | 71.88 | 322.82% |
| GeForce 7950 GX2 (NVIDIA) | 71.70 | 321.76% |
| GeForce 7900 GTX (NVIDIA) | 71.57 | 321.00% |
| Radeon X1900 XTX (ATI) | 68.62 | 303.65% |
| Radeon X1900 GT (Connect3D) | 60.12 | 253.65% |
| GeForce 7900 GT (NVIDIA) | 59.50 | 250.00% |
| Radeon X1800 XL (ATI) | 59.36 | 249.18% |
| GeForce 7800 GTX (MSI) | 58.10 | 241.76% |
| Radeon X850 XT P.E. (ATI) | 54.23 | 219.00% |
| GeForce 7800 GT (NVIDIA) | 52.35 | 207.94% |
| GeForce 6800 GS (NVIDIA) | 39.93 | 134.88% |
| GeForce 7600 GT (NVIDIA) | 39.62 | 133.06% |
| GeForce 6800 GT (NVIDIA) | 34.29 | 101.71% |
| Radeon X800 GTO (HIS) | 34.06 | 100.35% |
| Radeon X800 GT (HIS) | 27.74 | 63.18% |
| Radeon X1600 XT (Sapphire) | 24.91 | 46.53% |
| Radeon X1600 XT (ATI) | 24.51 | 44.18% |
| GeForce 7600 GS (NVIDIA) | 22.78 | 34.00% |
| Radeon X1600 Pro Turbo (HIS) | 20.96 | 23.29% |
| Radeon X700 Pro (Sapphire) | 20.01 | 17.71% |
| GeForce 6600 GT (XFX) | 19.53 | 14.88% |
| Radeon X1600 Pro 512 MB (PowerColor) | 17.00 | |
| GeForce 6600 (Albatron) | 11.28 | 50.71% |
| Radeon X600 Pro (Sapphire) | 8.04 | 111.44% |
| Radeon X600 XT (ATI) | 7.01 | 142.51% |