Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480

Name: Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 - Page 8
Brand: Sapphire

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, October 24, 2005, 11:00 PM EDT

Next up, we ran Kribibench, a 3D rendering benchmark produced by the folks at Adept Development. Kribibench is an SSE aware software renderer. A 3D model is rendered and animated by the host CPU, and the average frame rate is reported. We used two of the included models with this benchmark: a "Sponge Explode" model consisting of over 19.2 million polygons and a gargantuan "Ultra" model that is comprised of over 16 billion polys...

Kribibench v1.1

Details: www.adeptdevelopment.com

The Sapphire Pure Innovation PI-A9RX480 and Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI traded victories in the two KribiBench tests we ran, although their respective margins of victory were quite small. In the "Sponge Explode" test, the Sapphire PI-A9RX480 pulled ahead of its nForce 4 based competitor by a couple of hundredth of a frame per second. The results were similar in the more taxing "Ultra" tests, but this time around the Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI came out on top by one one-hundredths of a frame per second. Not exactly decisive victories for either platform.

Tags: ATI, Sapphire, App, X4, pure, nova, SAP, innovation, Pi, AP

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