Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP Review

X2 – The Threat

We ran the demo of the game X2 – The Threat, that is a very heavy game and it represents the graphics complexity of the new generation games. It runs several phases of the game and in the end it presents the average of frames per second generated. We ran the software at three resolutions, 1024x768x32, 1280x1024x32 and 1600x1200x32,  first without any image quality enhancement, and after enhancing image quality, because the performance usually decreases when we enhance image quality. Enhancing image quality consisted in activating antialising and shadowing.

At a resolution of 1024×768 without any image quality enhancement, Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI was 9.42% faster than Radeon X800 Pro from Gigabyte, 9.75% faster than Radeon X800 Pro from Sapphire, 13.44% faster than GeForce 6600 GT AGP from NVIDIA, 13.88% faster than GeForce 6600 GT AGP from Leadtek, 19.97% faster than GeForce FX 5950 Ultra from Gigabyte and 27.00% faster than Radeon 9800 XT from ATI.

GeForce 6800 Ultra from XFX, Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition and GeForce 6800 Ultra from NVIDIA achieved almost the same performance as Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI.

At a resolution of 1280×1024 without any image quality enhancement, Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI was 11.81% faster than Radeon X800 Pro from Sapphire, 12.14% faster than Radeon X800 Pro from Gigabyte, 23.49% faster than GeForce 6600 GT AGP from NVIDIA, 23.59% faster than GeForce 6600 GT AGP from Leadtek, 30.62% faster than GeForce FX 5950 Ultra from Gigabyte and 41.32% faster than Radeon 9800 XT from ATI.

GeForce 6800 Ultra from XFX, Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition and GeForce 6800 Ultra from NVIDIA achieved almost the same performance as Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI.

At a resolution of 1600×1200 without any image quality enhancement, Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI was 3.41% faster than GeForce 6800 Ultra from NVIDIA, 15.08% faster than Radeon X800 Pro from Sapphire, 16.10% faster than Radeon X800 Pro from Gigabyte, 35.24% faster than GeForce 6600 GT AGP from Leadtek, 35.39% faster than GeForce 6600 GT AGP from NVIDIA, 44.37% faster than GeForce FX 5950 Ultra from Gigabyte and 57.68% faster than Radeon 9800 XT from ATI.

Both GeForce 6800 Ultra from XFX and Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition achieved almost the same performance as Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI.

At a resolution of 1024×768 enabling image quality enhancements, Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI was 17.13% faster than Radeon X800 Pro from Sapphire, 17.62% faster than Radeon X800 Pro from Gigabyte, 37.12% faster than GeForce 6600 GT AGP from NVIDIA, 37.14% faster than GeForce 6600 GT AGP from Leadtek, 38.97% faster than GeForce FX 5950 Ultra from Gigabyte and 55.16% faster than Radeon 9800 XT from ATI.

Both GeForce 6800 Ultra from XFX and Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition achieved almost the same performance as Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI.

Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition was beaten by GeForce 6800 Ultra from XFX, which was 6.37% faster.

At a resolution of 1280×1024 enabling image quality enhancements, Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI was 20.07% faster than Radeon X800 Pro from Gigabyte, 20.74% faster than Radeon X800 Pro from Sapphire, 46.98% faster than GeForce FX 5950 Ultra from Gigabyte, 50.06% faster than GeForce 6600 GT AGP from Leadtek, 51.67% faster than GeForce 6600 GT AGP from NVIDIA and 72.99% faster than Radeon 9800 XT from ATI.

Both GeForce 6800 Ultra from XFX and Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition achieved almost the same performance as Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI.

Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition was beaten by GeForce 6800 Ultra from XFX, which was 3.24% faster.

At a resolution of 1600×1200 enabling image quality enhancements, Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI was 20.95% faster than Radeon X800 Pro from Sapphire, 23.67% faster than Radeon X800 Pro from Gigabyte, 54.49% faster than GeForce FX 5950 Ultra from Gigabyte, 58.26% faster than GeForce 6600 GT AGP from Leadtek, 58.34% faster than GeForce 6600 GT AGP from NVIDIA and 80.78% faster than Radeon 9800 XT from ATI.

Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition achieved almost the same performance as Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI.

Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition from ATI was beaten by both GeForce 6800 Ultra from XFX and GeForce 6800 Ultra from NVIDIA, that were 6.54% and 3.70%, respectively, faster.