NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT: XFX Style

Name: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT: XFX Style - Page 5
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, August 11, 2005, 08:00 AM EDT

Performance Comparisons with Halo v1.06

Details: http://www.bungie.net/Games/HaloPC/

Halo

No additional patches or tweaks are necessary to benchmark with Halo, as Gearbox has included all of the necessary information to test with this game within its Readme file. Basically, all that you have to do is install the game and modify its shortcut to set the resolution, refresh rate, and rendering mode. Then the benchmark works by running through four of the long cut-scenes from the game, after which the average frame rate is recorded. We patched Halo using the most recent v1.06 patch and ran this benchmark twice, once at a resolution of 1,280 x 1,024 and then again at 1,600 x 1,200. Anti-aliasing doesn't work properly with Halo, so all of the tests below were run with anti-aliasing disabled.

Regardless of the GeForce 7800 GT's core and memory clock speeds, it performed well in the Halo benchmark. In these two tests, the GeForce 7800 GT outperformed all of the single card configurations at both resolutions, except for the GeForce 7800 GTX. The only other configuration that was able to outpace the 7800 GTs was the GeForce 6800 Ultra SLI setup, which is far more expensive - for now.

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, XFX, force, fx, GT, 7800, 780, id

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