Benchmark project - PCI-E videocards since 2004

[havli]

Cards with different memory size are tricky to compare. Either your games can fit even the one with less RAM -> no performance difference. Or the other possibility - one card running fine and the other one slideshow.

I have some cards to try it with, so maybe one day.

 

[agent_x007]

Throw enough graphics mods at game, and VRAM get's scarce REALLY fast
How many FPS 8800 GTX get's in Crysis in "High" preset with Full HD resolution.
Enabling AA on R600s should drop performance pretty hard (since AA is done via shader cores).

 

[havli]

Radeon HD 2600 XT vs GeForce 8600 GTS

 

[havli]

Kaveri APU vs GeForce 8800 GTX

 

[Durvelle27]

You make me want to bench the GTX 260 i have sitting on my desk

 

[havli]

Oh yeah, GTX 260 is a very nice GPU. I have.... a lot of them Waiting for 3-way SLI action.

 

[Durvelle27]

Oh yeah, GTX 260 is a very nice GPU. I have.... a lot of them Waiting for 3-way SLI action.

I was thinking of pairing it with a Core 2 Quad i have with 8GB of RAM

 

[candle_86]

I was thinking of pairing it with a Core 2 Quad i have with 8GB of RAM

It will bottleneck slightly.

I did my own mini testing on a phenom x4 9950 the other day. Ran a few games and 3d mark. I tested dual 7900gtx, dual and single 8800gt, dual and single 9800gtx+, and dual and single GTX 280. What I discovered is the gtx280/dual 8800gt/dual 9800 GTX+ at 1680x1050 where 17% faster than a single 9800gtx+. But the 9800gtx was a solid 72% faster than dual 7900gtx.

What this tells me is the phenom 1st Gen sucked, but it also ties a q6600 at stock so I'd imagine an SLI gtx260 would be wasted on anything slower than a 1st Gen i7.

 

[Fouquin]

it also ties a q6600 at stock so I'd imagine an SLI gtx260 would be wasted on anything slower than a 1st Gen i7.

That's an interesting conclusion. There are a large selection of Core 2 Quads that are significantly faster than the Q6600.

 

[candle_86]

That's an interesting conclusion. There are a large selection of Core 2 Quads that are significantly faster than the Q6600.

maybe but the affordable ones are Kentsfield and q8xxx series, the q9xxx series tend to be way over priced

 

[Durvelle27]

It will bottleneck slightly.

I did my own mini testing on a phenom x4 9950 the other day. Ran a few games and 3d mark. I tested dual 7900gtx, dual and single 8800gt, dual and single 9800gtx+, and dual and single GTX 280. What I discovered is the gtx280/dual 8800gt/dual 9800 GTX+ at 1680x1050 where 17% faster than a single 9800gtx+. But the 9800gtx was a solid 72% faster than dual 7900gtx.

What this tells me is the phenom 1st Gen sucked, but it also ties a q6600 at stock so I'd imagine an SLI gtx260 would be wasted on anything slower than a 1st Gen i7.

I also have a athlon 860K and some Xeons

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

subbed to this.

 

[havli]

GeForce 7800 GTX vs Radeon X1800 XT

The G70 is rather.... slow :-D

 

[agent_x007]

I say, R520 is simply fast

 

[havli]

3-way CF Radeon HD 3870 vs 2-way SLI GeForce 8800 GT

I must hurry with the multi-GPU tests, before the winter is over :-D

 

[havli]

Radeon HD 4850 vs GeForce 8800 GTS 512 OC

 

[havli]

The GPU Duels are just a small part of the whole project. If you like a ton of good old bar charts, this is the right place for you :-D http://hw-museum.cz/article/7/the-ultimate-gpu-benchmark--2004---2007-/1

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I have a 7800GT somewhere that i should really clean up and bench.

 

[phill]

Amazing work Can't wait for the next batch!

 

[havli]

Thank you I am already working on the part 2. It should be complete within a year, maybe less :-D

 

[havli]

GeForce 8800 GTX 3-way SLI vs Radeon HD 5870

 

[Dicfylac]

Awesome thread, subbed.

 

[Keullo-e]

I need to check all your work on better time, I'm pretty active on the nostalgic hardware thread and I love benchmarking old cards too. Subbed this thread too.

 

[havli]

Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GTX 295

 

[Keullo-e]

Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GTX 295

Subbed, I'll check later