ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon X1800 XL

Name: ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon X1800 XL - Page 10
Brand: ATI

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, November 21, 2005, 05:00 AM EDT

Performance Comparisons with Doom 3

Details: http://www.doom3.com/

Doom 3

id Software's games have long been pushing the limits of 3D graphics. Quake, Quake 2, and Quake 3 were all instrumental in the success of 3D accelerators on the PC. Now, many years later, with virtually every new desktop computer shipping with some sort of 3D accelerator, id is at it again with the visually stunning Doom 3. Like most of id's previous titles, Doom 3 is an OpenGL game that uses extremely high-detailed textures and a ton of dynamic lighting and shadows. We ran this batch of Doom 3 single player benchmarks using a custom demo with the game set to its "High-Quality" mode, at resolutions of 1,280 x 1,024 and 1,600 x 1,200 without anti-aliasing enabled and then again with 4X AA and 8X aniso enabled simultaneously.

Although the latest set of Catalyst drivers gave the Radeon X1K family of products a nice boost in performance when running OpenGL applications with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled, the All-In-Wonder X1800 XL wasn't able to keep up with the XFX GeForce 7800 GT in our custom Doom 3 benchmark. in this test, the XFX card held onto significant performance leads at both resolutions, regardless of whether or not any additional pixel processing was used. We suspect ATI still has a few tricks up their sleeves to bring even more performance to the X1K family in the future, but currently NVIDIA still has a distinct advantage here. Perhaps this will change in the future, but ATI still has a lot of ground to make up. Time will tell.

Tags: ATI, Radeon, x1, 180

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