Asus AX800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro)

Name: Asus AX800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro) - Page 12
Brand: Asus

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 10:30 PM EDT

Overclocking the Asus Radeon X800 Pro

Making Fast, Faster...

Up to this point, it's obvious that the Asus AX800 Pro/TD, and the 16-pipe cards based on NVIDIA's NV4x architecture, are clearly superior to the previous generation's Radeon 9800 XT and GeForce FX 5950 Ultra. There is no denying that these new cards are really fast, but as you all know, overclocking can bring even more performance...

In our initial look at the R420, our reference ATi Radeon X800 Pro overclocked fairly well, hitting top core and memory speeds of 520MHz / 525MHz, respectively (up from 475MHz / 450MHz). Asus' version of the X800 Pro was for more "overclocker friendly", however. Our AX800 Pro/TD maxed out at a peak core clock speed of 542MHz and maximum memory clock speed of 1.088GHz (544MHz DDR)! These increases equate to a 14.1% bump in the core's clock speed, and a 21% increase in the memory's clock speed. To demonstrate the benefit of overclocking the AX800 Pro/TD, we re-ran Aquamark 3 and Comanche 4 at 1600x1200, with 4X AA and 16X Anisotropic filtering enabled concurrently. In Aquamark 3, we saw a 12.5% increase in performance and in Comanche 4, the AX800's frame-rate jumped by 8.4%.

Tags: Asus, Radeon, pro, X8

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com