Sapphire Toxic Radeon X1900 XTX

Name: Sapphire Toxic Radeon X1900 XTX - Page 8
Brand: Sapphire

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, April 10, 2006, 08:00 AM 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 without anti-aliasing enabled and then again with 4X AA and 8X aniso enabled simultaneously.

The GeForce 7900 GTX, and the 512MB GeForce 7800 GTX for that matter, clearly outpaced the Radeon X1900 XTXs in our custom Quake 4 benchmark. The 7900 GTX was about 18% to 25% faster than Toxic Radeon X1900 XTX in the default tests. When anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering were enabled simultaneously though, the GeForces' leads get much smaller, but it was again able to outpace the Radeon by approximately 10% to 13%.

Tags: Radeon, Sapphire, App, x1, SAP, Toxic, XT, 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