Gigabyte GV-NX79X512DB-RH

Name: Gigabyte GV-NX79X512DB-RH - Page 8
Brand: Gigabyte

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, June 13, 2006, 08:00 PM EDT

Performance Comparisons with Quake 4

Details: http://www.quake4game.com/

Quake 4

id Software, in conjunction with developer Raven, recently released the latest addition to the wildly popular Quake franchise, Quake 4. Quake 4 is based upon an updated and slightly modified version of the Doom 3 engine, and as such performance characteristics between the two titles are very similar. Like Doom 3, Quake 4 is also an OpenGL game that uses extremely high-detailed textures and a ton of dynamic lighting and shadows, but unlike Doom3, Quake 4 features some outdoor environments as well. We ran this these Quake 4 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 with 4X AA and 8X aniso enabled simultaneously.

Gigabyte's GV-NX79X512DB performed very well in our custom Quake 4 benchmark. Its performance was on-par with NVIDIA's reference GeForce 7900 GTX but a good amount faster than ATI's flagship Radeon X1900 XTX. Once again, the new GX2 was completely in a league of its own, but that is to be expected. The Gigabyte GV-NX79X512DB finished this test with a frame rate about 16% higher than the XTX at 1280x1024 and about 14% higher at 1600x1200.

Tags: Gigabyte, x5, 2D, X79, X51

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