Sapphire Hybrid Radeon X800 XL

Name: Sapphire Hybrid Radeon X800 XL - Page 11
Brand: Sapphire

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, February 21, 2005, 10:00 PM EDT

Benchmarks & Comparisons With Doom 3 - Multi-player

The Wait Is Over!.

Doom 3

The first round of Doom 3 focused on single-player performance. In this round we'll run a series of multiplayer tests and see how things unfold. These timedemos were run with our custom "HH_Frag2" demo, which is a recording of a five-player online match that took place in the "Frag Chamber" map area. We ran benchmarks with Doom 3 set to its "High-Quality" mode at resolutions of 1,024 x 768 and 1,600 x 1,200 without any anti-aliasing enabled and then with 4X AA and 8X Aniso enabled concurrently. Note: Doom 3 enabled 8X anisotropic filtering automatically when set to "High Quality" in the game's control panel.

The Sapphire Hybrid Radeon X800 XL fared a bit better in our custom multi-player Doom 3 test, but the end result was still the same. NVIDIA's GeForce 6 Series of cards continued to dominate in Doom 3. At 1024x768 and 1600x1200, the sapphire Hybrid Radeon X800 XL lagged behind the GeForce 6800 GT by margins ranging from 11% to over 34%.

Tags: Radeon, Sapphire, App, Hybrid, SAP, X8, AP, 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