Sapphire Radeon X800 XT - PCI Express

Name: Sapphire Radeon X800 XT - PCI Express - Page 4
Brand: Sapphire

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT

Benchmarks With Halo

Halo - All Patched & Ready To Go!

Halo

For many gamers, the release of Halo marked the end of a long wait because it was originally released as an Xbox exclusive a few years back. No additional patches or tweaks are needed to benchmark with Halo, as Gearbox has included all of the necessary information in its README file. The Halo benchmark runs through four of the cut-scenes from the game, after which the average frame rate is recorded. We patched the game using the v1.05 patch and ran this benchmark twice, once at 1,024 x 768 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.

At 1024x768, the 16-Pipeline cards (the Radeon X800 XTs and the GeForce 6800 GT) performed at near identical levels, with only a fraction of frame per second separating the top three finishers. The more mainstream X700 XT, however, fell behind the pack by roughly 22 frames per second, as it should considering its got half of the pixel pipelines and costs significantly less. When we cranked the resolution up to 1600x1200, the X800 XTs pulled slightly ahead of the 6800 GT, with the Sapphire X800 XT besting the GT by about 2 frames per second, and the X700 continued to bring up the rear.

Tags: Radeon, Sapphire, App, PC, Pre, PCI Express, XP, pci, SAP, express, XT, X8, 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